Kurtulus Oztopcu, PhD

___________________________________________________________________________________________

Dr. Öztopçu's Three Most Recent Books

Elementary Turkish

The Revised Edition is Now Available!

Since it was first published in 2006, ElementaryTurkish has been adopted as a textbook in over thirty U.S. universities. Students who complete the two-volume course should be
able to speak, understand, read, and write Turkish
at the level of "intermediate-mid" specified in
AATT’s (American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages) Provisional Proficiency Guidelines.
Both volumes can be used in a classroom setting
or as self-study aids.
2-volume revised edition with 2 companion audio CDs
Santa Monica - Istanbul, 2009.
ISBN 978-975-7981-40-4
Volume I: Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi 43
Softcover, xix+380 pages
Volume II: Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi 44
Softcover, xix+412 pages

Elementary Azerbaijani

A beginning level course for "standard" Azerbaijani,
the official language of the Republic of
Azerbaijan and the language spoken
by educated Azerbaijani speakers.
It is the first Azerbaijani textbook in Latin script, published in the West for English speakers.

Santa Monica, California - Istanbul, 2003
(Second printing)
With 2 companion audio CDs

A 14th-Century Mamluk-Kipchak
Archery Manual

An English & Turkish bilingual edition of
Kitab fi ‘Ilman-Nushshab (A Book on the Knowledge
of Arrows) or Khulasa (The Essence).
This work is a late 14th century archery manual
written in Mamluk-Kipchak Turkic
and composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt.
It is the earliest archery manual written in any
Turkic Language. This edition is based on
the only complete existing manuscript of the work,
that is preserved in the Istanbul Beyazit Library

Istanbul - 2002

___________________________________________________________________________________________