The Institute of Turcology was established in 1924 in connection with the Faculty of Arts at Istanbul Darülfünun followed by the appointment of Mehmed Fuad Köprülü as its director. The institute issued the twenty volumes of Türkiyat Mecmuası in between 1925-1996, it published twenty-six books from 1927 to 1945 and finally, it organized fourteen Turcology congresses in between 1973-1987, six of them being international and eight national.
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