Kur’an-ı Kerim’in Türkçe’ye Çevrilmesi ve İlk Türkçe Kur’an Tercümeleri

It is known by everybody that translating a text into another language completely is not possible. Above all, when this text is the Words of God which have many metaphorical expressions and gives the translator the fear of committing sin and taking the responsibility of people through wrong expression and explanation, translation gets more difficult. But, that translating it is hard does not mean that it will not be translated. Accordingly, different books have continuously been translated into different languages for centuries and through these translations new formulations, developments, improvements and breakthrough arise. Translating the Quran which was sent to all humanity is an obligation because it is not practically possible that everybody learns Arabic. Because, the Quran was sent to humanity in order to be understood. If people have no other choice to understand the Quran except for its translation, the necessity of translation arises. For this reason, information and the examples about the Quran translations of East and West Turkish which are known to be the first Turkish Quran translations in the history of Turkish language will be given. Their importance and place in the history of Turkish language will be specifie