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Asia is the largest and most populated continent in the world. As core country located in South Asia region, India is reknowned for high diversified culture, language and religion’s landscape. The country remains quite incomparable when considering the aforementioned background. This rich context had been drawn over history predominantly from Arabs, Mughals and English’s legacy and influence that added to local realities. In same line, even though its impacts are lesser, Ottoman Empire relationship with India mattered as well. Given India’s large openness to foreign cultures, language background is also highly affected. Therefore numrious languages are currently being teaching across the country. Among them Turkish Language might be outlined. Turkish is an important language spoken over a wide geographical area of the world and taught as a foreign language in many countries. Turkey carried out the Turkish language teaching activities for Turkish origin children living abroad with the help of Ministry of Education and the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency in the past and has been doing the same with Yunus Emre Institute and Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities in the present. The aim of this paper is to reveal when the teaching of Turkish language and literature in India started and examine data related to facts like when, in which states and which universities Turkish courses started to be given including the number of credits and reserved seats. The paper emphasizes the importance of Yunus Emre Institute in the field of Turkish teaching in India has been emphasized and explores previous researches related to the field. Document analysis has been used as a method for the research. The web links of Google Academic, YÖK Thesis Scan and the relevant institutions in India have also been benefitted from throughout the research. In conclusion, what kind of studies should be done in the next phase in the field of Turkish teaching in India has been suggested.

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