Özet:

Yunus Emre is one of the exemplary personalities of great importance in terms of Turkish language and culture, and 2021 has been accepted as the "Yunus Emre and Turkish year" due to the 700th anniversary of his death. In this context, various exhibitions, conferences, film performances, poetry recitals have been organized both in Turkey and in the world to introduce Yunus Emre and to understand and explain his teachings. In this study, it is aimed to determine the situation of Yunus Emre in the textbooks where Turkish is taught as a foreign language. In this study, document analysis was used in the analysis of the data. The universe of the study is book sets prepared for the teaching of Turkish as a foreign language; The sample consists of the widely used Yeni Hitit Yabancılar için Türkçe (New Hittite Turkish for Foreigners), Istanbul Turkish for Foreigners Teaching Set, Gazi University TÖMER and Yedi İklim Turkish teaching sets. It was determined that Yunus Emre was not mentioned in only one of the Turkish teaching sets examined, and that a total of seven different activities related to Yunus Emre were included in the other sets. In these activities, it was seen that the life and teachings of Yunus Emre were discussed. In addition, it was determined that five of these activities were prepared as both cultural transfer and language teaching activities. When we look at the activities that include Yunus Emre, it is seen that these activities are at the intermediate and advanced levels of the Turkish teaching sets and not at the beginner level. The texts in which Yunus Emre is described are not of a single genre; It has been determined that various genres such as letters, biographies, poems, interviews, symposia, and novels are used.