Klasik Divan
Digital Humanities
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Our Website Is Launched
March 14, 2026
The website of the Digital Humanities research platform is now online.
Introductory Article on the AntConc Corpus Analysis Tool Published
March 10, 2026
The article titled "Turning Texts into Data: AntConc Corpus Analysis Tool" by Ecemnur Topcu, a member of the KD Digital Projects Team, has been published on insidedh.com. This study aims to contribute to researchers' ability to examine texts quantitatively and contextually by introducing the AntConc tool used for text analysis.
We congratulate our team member and wish her continued success in her endeavors.
Our Team Members at Marmara University Digital Humanities Application and Research Center
February 23, 2026
Our team members Ecemnur Topcu, Dilan Adanç, and Beyza Abdukarimov have begun their work as researchers at the Marmara University Digital Humanities Application and Research Center. We congratulate our team members on this fruitful collaboration and wish them continued success in their endeavors.
Our Team Members Contributed to the Book "Digital Applications in Classical Turkish Literature
October 31, 2025
Members of the Digital Projects Team contributed as chapter authors to the academic book titled "Digital Applications in Classical Turkish Literature." Additionally, Sevnur Gizem Doruk from our team served as one of the editors of the book.
The contributions of our team members in the book are as follows:
Selin Yavuz — Digital Approaches in Classical Turkish Literature Studies: Projects, Databases, and Digital Dictionaries
Ecemnur Topcu — Digital Carriers of Written Memory: e-Book Platforms
Sevnur Gizem Doruk & Beyza Abdukarimov — Mapping the Locations in Âsaf Hâlet Çelebi's Book "İstanbul in Divan Poetry" via Geographic Information Systems
We congratulate our team members for their valuable contributions and wish them continued success in their endeavors.
Our New TUBITAK Supported Project Comes to Life
August 6, 2025
Through determined work since its establishment, the Klasik Divan KD Digital Projects Team has achieved significant success. Having taken its first step in digital humanities last year with the pilot study Atlas of Amasya Poets, our team continues to make its mark with a far more comprehensive project.
Our project, titled "Mapping 16th-Century Ottoman Literary Circles via Geographic Information Systems, Social Network Analysis, and Database, and Examining Their Literary Relationships," has been awarded funding under the TUBITAK 1001 Program. The project aims to examine Ottoman literary circles in a multi-layered manner through Geographic Information Systems, social network analysis, and database technologies, revealing the unseen connections within these literary circles by analyzing the relationships between space, individuals, and texts through digital methods. Reimagining Ottoman literature through the possibilities of data-driven research, this study holds great significance in pioneering the digital transformation of the field.
To be realized under the leadership of Principal Investigator Prof. Şerife Yalçınkaya; we congratulate all team members involved in this work and proudly share this achievement.
Our Team Members Join Digital Ottoman Projects
Ahmet Uslu, Betül Sevindik, Ecemnur Topcu, and Sevnur Gizem Doruk, members of our team, continue their work as research fellows at Digital Ottoman Projects. We congratulate our team members on this fruitful collaboration and wish them continued success in their endeavors.
Digital Humanities Article by Team Member Selin Yavuz Has Been Published
Selin Yavuz, a member of the Digital Projects Team, has crowned her work in digital humanities with an academic article.
The article titled "On the Possibilities of Digitization in Turkish Literature: Digital Literary Atlases" has been published in Volume 1, Issue 2 of the journal Klasik Divan. The study makes a significant contribution to theoretical and practical discussions in the field by addressing the opportunities that digital literary atlases offer to Turkish literature research.
We congratulate Selin Yavuz for this valuable contribution and wish her continued success in her endeavors.
Our Pilot Project, "Atlas of Amasya Poets," Introduced to the Literature
The II. International Amasya Social Sciences Research Symposium, where the pilot project of our Klasik Divan initiative Atlas of Amasya Poets was presented, has been published as a book by Sonçağ Publishing, taking its place in the academic literature.
Bringing together the symposium papers, this publication holds great importance as it serves as a permanent and accessible academic resource for the studies presented. Introduced at the symposium through our team's contributions, the Atlas of Amasya Poets project is now documented in writing within this comprehensive volume.
Beyond a oral presentation, we as Klasik Divan express our satisfaction with our work now being documented in a permanent academic publication, and we thank all of our team members who contributed.
The First Project of the Klasik Divan Digital Projects Team Introduced at the "Amasya in the Century of Turkey" Symposium
Atlas of Amasya Poets, the pilot project of the Klasik Divan Digital Projects Team established under Digital Humanities, met the academic community at the II. International Amasya Social Sciences Research Symposium.
The presentation was delivered by our team members Dilan Adanç and Beyza Abdukarimov. Brought to life through the collective efforts of our eight-member team, this pilot project aims to map and visualize Divan poets who were raised in Amasya—one of the vital centers of Classical Turkish Literature within the framework of a digital atlas. Completed in a development period of just two months, the project represents the first concrete output of the team's vision to bring together classical literature research with digital humanities methodologies.
Our Team Member Attended the Panel Organized by Haliç University
May 5, 2026
Selin Yavuz, one of our team members, participated in the panel titled "Reconsidering Turkish Language and Literature within Digital Humanities: Method, Opportunities, and Limitations," hosted by Haliç University.
Within the scope of the panel, our researcher presented examples of the use of digital humanities in the field of Turkish language and literature through her paper titled "The Use of Geographic Information Systems in Turkish Language and Literature Research: Opportunities, Applications, and Limitations."
We congratulate our team member and wish her continued success in her endeavors.