TLPCorp: Turkish Parliamentary Speeches from 2002 to 2026

Turkish legislative proceedings from the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM). TLPCorp includes more than 1.4 million parliamentary speeches scraped from the TBMM webpage, covering legislative terms 22-28 between 2002 and 2026. The corpus was authored by Mohsin Hussain and hosted on Harvard Dataverse.

Use Cases

• Analyze political discourse and party positions based on parliamentary speech text.
• Train or fine-tune Turkish language models based on a large-scale, domain-specific text corpus.
• Study legislative trends and speaker activity over time based on the 24-year time range.
• Conduct speaker attribution or stylometric analysis based on metadata for 2257 unique legislators.

Strengths

• Contains more than 1.4 million individual speech records.
• Covers a 24-year time range from 2002 to 2026 across seven legislative terms.
• Includes metadata for 2257 unique speakers (legislators).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for specific scale requirements.

Provenance

Source

Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) webpage.

Collection Method

Scraped from the TBMM webpage.

Time Range

2002 to 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 01:32:35; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Türkiye.