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The texts in Turkish textbooks are very important in terms of national and cultural concepts acquisition. These concepts are included in the 2018 Turkish course curriculum as the recommended topic proposals under the theme of National Culture. The purpose of this research is; to determine the status of national and cultural concepts in First and Second Grade Primary School Turkish textbooks used in 2018-2019 academic year. Qualitative method was used in the study and data were collected by document analysis by descriptive analysis technique. According to the research results; certain concepts (such as Atatürk, flag concepts under the theme of National Struggle and Atatürk) are more frequent in certain themes; some of these concepts were distributed under the themes included in the textbooks examined, and compared to other books the first semester first-grade primary school textbook was found to contain more limited themes. In addition, it has been concluded that the concepts studied at both grade levels are not distributed evenly according to types of writing and themes. Based on the results of the study; The distribution of national and cultural concepts in the firs and second grade of Turkish Primary textbooks must be reviewed, concepts are given less or no place in textbooks should be distributed in more balanced way, preventing the exclusion of some themes in certain concepts, it may be suggested that examination of the situation of national and cultural concepts in different grade levels textbooks by different publishers.

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