Copyright and Licensing Policy

Authors’ Rights
Authors retain full copyright to their work. By submitting a manuscript to the Turkic Studies Journal, the author(s) confirm(s) compliance with the journal’s editorial and publication policies, including academic ethics, originality, and plagiarism standards. This is confirmed by submitting an Author’s Declaration along with the manuscript.

License to the Journal
Upon acceptance, the author(s) grant the journal a non-exclusive license for the right of first publication. Authors retain the right to:

  • Use the published work for scholarly and educational purposes;
  • Deposit the article in institutional repositories, on personal websites, and on non-commercial academic platforms;
  • Enter into non-exclusive agreements for further dissemination (e.g., inclusion in collections, dissertations, courses) with mandatory citation of the original journal publication.

Open Access License
All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution–NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). This allows users to:

  • Read, download, copy, distribute, translate, and adapt the work for non-commercial purposes;
  • Provide proper attribution to the author(s) and the original journal;
  • Indicate any changes made when adapting or translating content.

Commercial use of the materials requires prior written permission from the author(s). Requests can be submitted directly to the author(s) or via the Editorial Office.