F. Tulga Ocak (14 May 1946 – 20 November 2019) was a

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academic and professor of classical Turkish literature and

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. She worked at

Hacettepe University Hacettepe University is a leading state university in Ankara, Turkey. It was established on 8 July 1967. It is ranked first among the Turkish universities by URAP in 2021. The university has two main campuses. The first campus is in the old to ...

Early life and education

Ocak was born on 14 May 1946 in

Gaziantep Gaziantep (), previously and still informally called Aintab or Antep (), is a major city and capital of the Gaziantep Province, in the westernmost part of Turkey's Southeastern Anatolia Region and partially in the Mediterranean Region, approximat ...

. She is the daughter of Ali Kemal Ocak (1911-1964), a member of the

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for Democrat Party from Gaziantep for three terms between 1950 and 1960 and elder brother of

Kamil Ocak Mehmet Kamil Ocak (19 February 1914 – 21 May 1969) was a Turkish politician and served as minister of state from 1965 to 1969. Early life and education Ocak was born in Gaziantep in the Aleppo Vilayet of the Ottoman Empire on 19 February ...

. After graduating from

TED Ankara College TED Ankara College Foundation Schools is a group of private schools in Turkey. College consists of kindergarten, elementary, middle and high schools. TED Ankara College Foundation Schools Incek Campus is located in Ankara, Turkey. History At ...

she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in

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from

Ankara University Ankara University ( tr, Ankara Üniversitesi) is a public university in Ankara, the capital city of Turkey. It was the first higher education institution founded in Turkey after the formation of the republic in 1923. The university has 40 vocat ...

in 1968. Her undergraduate thesis is about the

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of Selanikli Esat. She received PhD from

Tehran University The University of Tehran (Tehran University or UT, fa, دانشگاه تهران) is the most prominent university located in Tehran, Iran. Based on its historical, socio-cultural, and political pedigree, as well as its research and teaching pro ...

and the title of her thesis is ''Aḥvāl va ās̲ār va taḥlīl-i ashʻār-i dīvān-i Fārsī-i Aḥmad Dāʻī''. The advisor of the thesis is

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academic and scholar

Mehdi Mohaghegh Mehdi Mohaghegh, sometimes transliterated Mahdi Muhaqqiq, (born 1930, Mashad, Iran) is an Iranian scholar specializing in Persian literature, Islamic studies and philosophy. He has a Ph.D. in both Ilahiyyat (theology) and Persian language and li ...

. The study which is about the Persian divan of Ahmad Dai, an early Ottoman poet, was published in Persian in 2006.

Career

Ocak was a faculty member in the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University until May 2013. She was among the early members of the department. In 1980, she became associate professor and her study for the title was entitled ''Nef'i and his Turkish divan''. She became professor in 1988. In 1991, she was appointed first vice rector of

Ahmet Yesevi University Ahmet Yesevi University ( kk, Ахмет Ясауи университеті, ''Ahmet Iasaýı ýnıversıteti''; tr, Ahmet Yesevi Üniversitesi) is a university in the city of Turkistan in Kazakhstan, named for the twelfth-century Sufi poet K ...

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. She was the head of the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University from 2005 to 2009.

Work

Ocak analysed poems and divan of Nef'i, a major poet in

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. She also published articles about other divan poets, including

Sultan Veled Baha al-Din Muhammad-i Walad ( fa, بها الدین محمد ولد), more popularly known as Sultan Walad ( fa, سلطان ولد) was the eldest son of Jalal Al-Din Rumi, Persian poet, Sufi, Hanafi Maturidi Islamic scholar and one of the found ...

. She is the coeditor of ''Ölümünün üçyüzellinci yılında Nef'î'' (1991) which is concerned with the works of Nef'i. She is the editor of the second edition of ''Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır?'', a book by

Sevim Tekeli Sevim Tekeli (22 December 1924 – 16 December 2019) was a prominent Turkish history of science professor. Early life and education Sevim Tekeli was born in Izmir in 1924. She received primary education in different cities of Turkey, since her ...

. She participated in various conferences on

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last of which was in Tehran in May 2010. Her pupils and colleagues published a book for her in 2013, entitled ''Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan''.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ocak, F. Tulga 20th-century Turkish women 21st-century Turkish women 1946 births 2019 deaths Ankara University alumni Academic staff of Hacettepe University Academics from Gaziantep TED Ankara College Foundation Schools alumni Turkish women academics University of Tehran alumni