Turkish Parliamentary Transcripts Spanning Over 100 Years

Over 100 years of Turkish parliamentary transcripts from 10 legislative bodies, starting in 1920. The corpus includes texts in both Ottoman Turkish and Modern Turkish. It was created by boun-tabilab and last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Train language models on historical Ottoman Turkish text from the 1920-1928 transcripts.
• Analyze topic shifts in parliamentary speech from the Modern Turkish transcripts (1928-present).
• Study the evolution of political vocabulary and rhetoric across 10 different legislative bodies.
• Perform temporal sentiment analysis on debates spanning the corpus's 100+ year range.

Strengths

• Transcripts span over 100 years of political history.
• Contains data from 10 distinct legislative bodies.
• Includes a unique bilingual corpus of Ottoman and Modern Turkish.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column names, and sample size are unknown.
• Potential for transcription errors or omissions in historical records.
• Geographic coverage is limited to a single national parliament.

Provenance

Source

Grand National Assembly of Türkiye (GNACT).

Time Range

1920 to present.

Freshness

Updated March 2026.

Geography

Türkiye.