The texts in this data set are part of a three-volume documentation of the Turkish dialect spoken in Erzurum province of Turkey \pcite{Gemalmaz1995}, compiled as part of a nation-wide survey of dialectal Turkish conducted by the Turkish Language Society (Türk Dil Kurumu). The texts recorded were published with a relatively narrow transcription in order to reflect dialect features of phonetics and morphology as closely as possible. Sound files were not available to us. We have imported the transcriptions via OCR-recognition from scans of the book, though some diacritics were lost in the process. We also added an English translation. The texts are a mix of traditional narratives and oral history.
