Department of Traditional Turkish Arts; Within the framework of Traditional Arts, it aims to train creative designers who have received art education, gained the ability to see and perceive, and who can bring contemporary and original approaches with their own artistic structure by assimilating our traditional values. In 2000, it started education with three main branches of art under the name of Traditional Turkish Handicrafts Department. Today, under the name of Traditional Turkish Arts, it continues to provide education with the main branches of Illumination Art, Tile Design and Repair, Carpet-Rug and Traditional Fabric Patterns and Calligraphy (since 2010). In our staff; There are 1 Professor, 2 Associate Professors, 1 Doctoral Lecturer, 5 Lecturers and 2 Research Assistants.

Our department accepts 35 students with a special talent exam at the beginning of each new academic year. Our students, who take common basic art and culture courses in the first year, choose the major art branch they are interested in in the second year and continue their education in this branch for 6 semesters. Our department, which produces graduates with 240 ECTS as a result of undergraduate education, includes the following in its course plans in the 2013-2014 academic year in order to ensure that students are better equipped with the courses they take in each semester; He made some innovations and arrangements. Thus, apart from the major art courses chosen by the students; It is also possible for students to improve themselves in different areas through various elective courses. Our postgraduate education within the Institute of Social Sciences; Under one name, with the partnership of our disciplines; It continues to graduate its students with diversified courses in the fields of illumination, tile, carpet-rug, fabric and calligraphy.

Our department aims to revive our traditional arts, which are starting to disappear today, and to transfer them to the future; to teach scientific research methods to identify and archive living or endangered products; He continues his education and work in the fields of design and restoration. After our students graduate; They can be employed as designers in workshops and factories, and as restorers in libraries and restoration centers.