RumeliDE Dil ve Edebiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi

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India and Turkey relations are based on very old. The Turks who held
İndia for almost eight centuries, left many literary and architectural works.
India, which remained under Turkish rule for eight centuries and could compete
with Anatolia in cultural diversity, was highly influenced by Turkish culture.
This effect is more common in Hindi and Urdu spoken in India. Although Turkish
was not accepted as the official language of India, it left its influence on
Urdu and Hindi. Today, the number of common words between Hindi, Urdu and
Turkish is around nine thousand. However, with the arrival of the British in
India, Turkish was forgotten in India and most of the Turkish works were taken
to England. There are not enough scientific studies on the remaining works.
However, the Turkish program at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, which
has been carried out jointly by TİKA and Yunus Emre Institute since 2006, aims
to expand Turkish. At the Jamia Millia Islamia University, Turkish teaching
started in the 2006-2007 academic year as a result of TIKA's initiatives and
has been continuing since 2010 with the support of the Yunus Emre Institute.
The courses opened within the scope of the Certificate program under the
umbrella of the Faculty of Humanities and Foreign Languages gained momentum
with the Diploma and Higher Diploma programs, respectively. As a result of the
interest shown by the students to the above programs, the undergraduate program
of Turkish Language and Literature was opened in the 2012-2013 academic year as
a result of TIKA's initiatives and has been continuing since 2010 with the
support of the Yunus Emre Institute. The courses opened within the scope of the
Certificate program under the umbrella of the Faculty of Humanities and Foreign
Languages gained momentum with the Diploma and Higher Diploma programs,
respectively. As a result of the interest shown by the students to the above
programs, the undergraduate program of Turkish Language and Literature was
opened in the 2012-2013 academic year and the first student enrolled. In the
article we are working on; it will focus on the development of the department
that started with the Certificate program at Jamia Millia İslamia University in
2006 and is currently at the undergraduate level and proceeding to open the
graduate peogram. In addition, Jawaharlal Nehru, another university in the
state of Delhi in India, offers elective Turkish courses in accordance with the
protocol of the Yunus Emre Institute, and the article will also examine the reasons
why students of Arabic, English and Persian language prefer Turkish.