boun-tabilab/turkish_parliamentary_data

Grand National Assembly Corpus of Türkiye (GNACT)

A comprehensive collection of Turkish parliamentary transcripts spanning over 100 years (1920–present), from 10 legislative bodies. Includes both Ottoman Turkish (1920–1928) and Modern Turkish (1928–present) texts.

Loading the dataset

from datasets import load_dataset

# Strategy 1: full session documents, all bodies (default)
ds = load_dataset("boun-tabilab/turkish_parliamentary_data", "full_sessions", split="train")

# Strategy 2: page-level, all bodies
ds = load_dataset("boun-tabilab/turkish_parliamentary_data", "pages", split="train")

# Strategy 3: TBMM only, all terms
ds = load_dataset("boun-tabilab/turkish_parliamentary_data", "tbmm_only", split="train")

# Filter after loading (e.g. TBMM term 22, year 3)
ds_t22 = ds.filter(lambda x: x["term"] == 22)
ds_t22_y3 = ds.filter(lambda x: x["term"] == 22 and x["year"] == 3)

Configs

Config	Granularity	Bodies	Shards
full_sessions	Document	All 10	27
pages	Page	All 10	20
tbmm_only	Document	TBMM only	16

Columns

Column	Type	Description
document_id	string	Unique document identifier
legislative_body	string	Legislative body name
term	int32	Legislative term number
year	int32	Year within the term
session	int32	Session number
volume	int32	Volume number
page_num	int32	Page number (0 for full-session rows)
text	string	OCR-extracted text
is_full_session	bool	True for document rows, False for page rows
language	string	tr (Modern Turkish) or ota (Ottoman Turkish)

Legislative bodies

Code	Name
TBMM	Türkiye Büyük Millet Meclisi (Grand National Assembly)
MM	Millet Meclisi (National Assembly)
CS	Cumhuriyet Senatosu (Senate of the Republic)
BT	Birleşik Toplantı (Joint Sessions)
MGK	Milli Güvenlik Konseyi (National Security Council)
MBK	Milli Birlik Komitesi (National Unity Committee)
KM	Kurucu Meclis (Constituent Assembly)
DM	Danışma Meclisi (Advisory Council)
TM	Temsilciler Meclisi (House of Representatives)
GC	Gizli Celse / Kapalı Oturum (Secret/Closed Sessions)

License

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Citation

@dataset{turkish_parliamentary_data_2026,
  title   = {Turkish Parliamentary Data 2026: Grand National Assembly Corpus of Türkiye (GNACT)},
  year    = {2026},
  url     = {https://huggingface.co/datasets/boun-tabilab/turkish_parliamentary_data},
  license = {CC BY-NC-SA 4.0}
}