I came to a strange city, no one understand how I feel
I listen to what I speak, no one understand my language...
Yunus Emre
Our story:
Hi,
In fact, we do not have a very interesting story. Like many projects, this project has emerged from the idea of "How do we do our job better?" and was supported by Presidency of Turks Abroad and Related Communities of the Republic of Turkey.
Our aim:
We aim not to teach "Turkish in 3 Minutes" but to break down the prejudices of learners towards learning and motivate them further. Our aim is to make them say that "Look, this friend is one of you. He worked and achieved it. Why can't you? ".
As a matter of fact, we tried to present this motivation by working with people who have experienced the journey of learning Turkish in almost all the videos in the project.
The most important part of the journey: Fellow travellers
Our adventure, which began by taking simple videos in 2015, grew over time, and finally, in 2017 it turned into a learning platform based on mutual interaction here.
"Turkish in 3 Minutes" Are you curious about who worked for this product we said in two shakes? What if we said that there is a team of 34 behind this project, which is a product of over 5400 hours of hard work and endeavour and that team has kept its shoulder to the wheel for over two years.
Are we exhausted?
Every one of us, like horses, galloping by rising the clouds of dust until sparkling their shoes, has run more and more as we get tired.
Where does the work lead to?
The story of Edmund Hillary ends on the top of the Everest in a year later, who says " Guys! Everest is big for it defeats me but its size does not change, but my determination and faith grows every passing day!" after failing to reach the summit of Everest in 1952.
We see the dream of looking for a new "Everest" behind every single hill we went through with a thousand difficulties.
Dr. Bekir İnce
On behalf of the "Turkish in 3 Minutes" Project Team
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bekir İNCE
He graduated from the Faculty of Letters of Istanbul University in 1999. He completed his master and Ph.D. education in the Hasan Ali Yücel Faculty of Education at the same university. He taught Turkish to bilingual Turkish children and foreigners for five years in Paris where he went through Ministry of Education. He took office in the Department of Turkish Education at Sakarya University in 2012. He became an associate professor in 2017. He is currently a board member at Sakarya University TÖMER.
Instructor Erdal ÖZCAN
He graduated from Faculty of Education of Sakarya University in 2001. He completed his master's degree at Sakarya University. He currently continuous his Ph.D. in Institute of Education Science of Istanbul University. Since 2001, he has been working at the Department of Turkish Language Teaching in Sakarya University and he has been serving as the assistant director in Sakarya University TÖMER since 2012.
Lecturer Veli GÖK
He graduated from the Department of Turkish Language Teaching of Faculty of Education in Sakarya University in 2015. During his studentship, he has worked as an assistant student in the department of Turkish Language Teaching and Institute of Education Science for two years. He has been working as a lecturer in Sakarya University TÖMER that he started in 2015. He actively worked in the activity preparation and organization of the project.
Res Asst. Murat TOPAL
He graduated from Department of Computer and Instructional Technology Education of Dokuz Eylül University in 2011. In 2012, he started to work as a research assistant in Institute of Educational Sciences at Sakarya University. He completed his master's degree in the Department of Computer and Instructional Technology Education of Institute of Educational Sciences in Sakarya University in 2013. Since 2013 he has been continuing his Ph.D. in the same department. He is still working as a research assistant at the Institute of Educational Sciences in Sakarya University.
Elec. Comm. Eng. Sercan USTA
Graduated from Yıldız Technical University Electric-Electronic Faculty in 2013. As a master he graduated from Boğaziçi University Management Information Systems. After that he started working in Netaş Telecommunication as an R&D Engineer. He is still working in Turkcell as a central planning and investment Engineer.
Öğr. Ast. Yücel ŞAHİN
2015 yılında Sakarya Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesinde Türkçe Öğretmenliği Bölümünü kazandı.Projede videoların interaktif şekilde kurgusunda görev almıştır.Halen Sakarya Üniversitesinde okumakta ve bölümün öğrenci asistanlığını yapmaktadır.