Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine Atmaca is a member of the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Akdeniz University. She graduated from the same department at Süleyman Demirel University in 2002. She obtained her non-thesis master’s degree in the Secondary Education field from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Gazi University in 2004; her master’s degree with a thesis in Turkish Language and Literature, New Turkish Language Department, in 2005 at Gazi University; her Ph.D. in Turkish Language and Literature in 2011 at Sakarya University, where she was appointed as RA at the same department in 2004. She worked as a lecturer and coordinator at University of Korkutata between 2007 and 2009 and at the Turkish Teaching Center (~Turkų Kalbos Centras) of the Faculty of Philology of Lithuania-Vilnius University in 2012-2013. She was appointed assistant professor at Sakarya University in 2014-2015. From 2015 to 2019, she worked as an assistant professor at Akdeniz University. Since 2019, she has worked as an associate professor. She also completed another master's degree program in Mediterranean Medieval Studies at Mediterranean Civilizations Research Institute, Akdeniz University, in 2021. She is still a Ph.D. candidate in Mediterranean Medieval Studies at Akdeniz University. Her interests are the history of religions, the Karâî sect, Türkiye and Turkish dialects, linguistics, semantics, Old Oghuz Turkish, Kazakh Turkish, Karay and Tatar Turks living in Lithuania.
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emine Atmaca is a member of the Turkish Language and Literature Department at Akdeniz University. She graduated from the same department at Süleyman Demirel University in 2002. She obtained her non-thesis master’s degree in the Secondary Education field from the Department of Turkish Language and Literature at Gazi University in 2004; her master’s degree with a thesis in Turkish Language and Literature, New Turkish Language Department, in 2005 at Gazi University; her Ph.D. in Turkish Language and Literature in 2011 at Sakarya University, where she was appointed as RA at the same department in 2004. She worked as a lecturer and coordinator at University of Korkutata between 2007 and 2009 and at the Turkish Teaching Center (~Turkų Kalbos Centras) of the Faculty of Philology of Lithuania-Vilnius University in 2012-2013. She was appointed assistant professor at Sakarya University in 2014-2015. From 2015 to 2019, she worked as an assistant professor at Akdeniz University. Since 2019, she has worked as an associate professor. She also completed another master's degree program in Mediterranean Medieval Studies at Mediterranean Civilizations Research Institute, Akdeniz University, in 2021. She is still a Ph.D. candidate in Mediterranean Medieval Studies at Akdeniz University. Her interests are the history of religions, the Karâî sect, Türkiye and Turkish dialects, linguistics, semantics, Old Oghuz Turkish, Kazakh Turkish, Karay and Tatar Turks living in Lithuania.