Culture is the total of the material and intangible values that save human communities from being a mass and hold these nations together with strong ties by giving them the characteristic of being a nation. Turkish lesson has a key role in terms of the transmission of Turkish language and culture. The more cultural elements a society shares, the easier it is for them to meet on a common interest. Common experiences, in other words, cultural accumulations generate the basis of unity and togetherness. The fact that individuals with the same historical background, coming from common traditions and customs act together for the society they belong to, stick together, and have a consciousness of unity and togetherness is due to the fact that they have the same cultural values. Considering the fact that the carrier of culture is the mother tongue, Turkish lesson and Turkish textbooks should be prepared with this awareness. Taking all these into consideration, the sufficiency and level of Turkish textbooks in conveying cultural diversity is an important issue that needs to be investigated. The research was designed as a qualitative case study. Data were collected by document review method. In the evaluation of the data, descriptive analysis, one of the qualitative analysis techniques, was used.
Language, cultural element, textbook, cultural transfer.