Parliamentary speeches from the Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) cover legislative terms 22-28, corresponding to the full period of Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule from 2002 to 2026. Mohsin Hussain scraped the speeches from the official TBMM website and published the dataset via Harvard Dataverse in May 2026.
Use Cases
- Analyze political rhetoric and party messaging based on parliamentary speech text.
- Track legislative agenda and policy priorities over time based on speech content.
- Study linguistic patterns and discourse styles of Turkish politicians.
- Train language models for Turkish political text processing.
Strengths
- Covers a significant 24-year period (2002-2026) of Turkish political history.
- Data originates from the official parliamentary source (tbmm.gov.tr), suggesting authenticity.
- Focuses on a distinct political era under a single ruling party (AKP).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (TBMM) official website (tbmm.gov.tr)
- Collection Method
- Scraped from the official website.
- Time Range
- 2002 to 2026 (Legislative terms 22-28)
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-18 14:55:45; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Türkiye