Who is Dursun Gümüşoğlu?
H. Dursun Gümüşoğlu is a researcher and author who has studied Bektashism and Bektashi literature since 1990. He brings divans, cönks and manuscripts from Ottoman Turkish into modern Turkish, and has 20 books, 22 articles and 7 symposium papers. He also serves as a court expert on Ottoman-script documents and as a text consultant for documentaries, mainly for TRT.
You can visit the site at dursungumusoglu.com.tr.
What's on the site?
- Home page: introduction and portrait, work in numbers (36 years, 20 books, 22 articles, 7 papers), featured research, books, papers and areas of expertise.
- Writings: articles and symposium papers in separate categories.
- Books: all 20 titles with co-author, publisher and year.
- CV: biography, memberships, fields of study and a chronology from 1956 to today.
- Services: Ottoman Turkish translation and expert-witness work (inscriptions, newspapers, manuscripts, land and civil registry records), documentary consulting.
- Documentaries and photos.
- Site search, light and dark themes, RSS feed.
Highlights
A site that reads like a book
Visitors come to read long texts. A cream background, classic serif type and generous line spacing present articles with the comfort of a printed page; the dark theme makes night reading easier.
Archive and services in one place
Books and articles show the researcher's body of work, and the translation and expert-witness pages turn it into services: a person or institution looking for document translation sees the expert's credentials and gets in touch on the same site.
Open to search engines and AI
With a sitemap, RSS and llms.txt, the articles can be found as sources both in search engines and in AI assistants.
Analysis table
| Topic | Status |
|---|---|
| Content | 20 books, 22 articles, 7 papers, 5 documentaries |
| Services | Ottoman Turkish translation, expert witness, documentary consulting |
| Reading | Light and dark themes, serif typography |
| Search | Site search |
| Discoverability | Sitemap, RSS, llms.txt |
| Mobile | Responsive |
| Launch | November 2026 |
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Why does an academic or author need a personal website?
Books, articles and papers no longer sit scattered across sources; they live at one address, searchable and citable. Services such as consulting or translation also gain trust next to that body of work.
What is on the Dursun Gümüşoğlu site?
A list of 20 books, articles and symposium papers on Bektashism, documentaries, a CV, and Ottoman Turkish translation and expert-witness services.