This course is a continuation of TUR 403 and aims at students' understanding of modern Turkish texts, namely short stories, poems, articles, essays, and theses written from 1910s up to the present. Readings will cover topics in modern Turkish language, history, literature, society, and politics, and will support students' actual research in Turkish Studies or related fields. Assignments will include: reading of the daily course material; translations from and into Turkish; response papers and essays written in Turkish; work on vocabulary concentration and work on colloquial, idiomatic, and technical phrases.