Turkish Studies International Periodical for the Languages, Literature and History of Turkish or Turkic Volume 12/6, p. 77-88 DOI Number: http://dx.doi.org/10.7827/TurkishStudies.9711 ISSN: 1308-2140, ANKARA-TURKEY Article Info/Makale Bilgisi  Received/Geliş: 16.06.2016 Accepted/Kabul: 10.03.2017  Referees/Hakemler: Prof. Dr. Şener DEMİREL - Doç. Dr. Niyazi ÖZER This article was checked by iThenticate. AN INVESTIGATION INTO COURSE BOOKS USED IN TURKISH LESSON IN TEMS OF VALUES Hasan AYDEMİR * - Aslıhan ÖZEL ** ABSTRACT The increase in negative behaviors in recent years has led to an increase on the importance given to values education in many countries. Educational institutions are trying to help individuals to create robust character by adding values education into the training which they have given since the early ages. There are more Turkish lessons than any other courses in the curriculum. Thus it provides an opportunity for transmission of values to more students in Turkish lessons. Also the texts that have a great role in the processing of Turkish courses play a major role in transmitting values to students. The textbooks belong to Primary, elementary and high schools are published in the Journal of Communique after obtaining the approval of the Ministry of Education Head Council of Education and Morality. In the 2014-2015 academic year, the names of the Turkish textbooks published by 20 different houses to be taught in Turkish lessons of fourth grades were published in the Journal of Communique (No. 2676 January 2014). In order to determine the values in the books used in the research, 20 values taken part in Social Studies (4th-7th grades) Education Program used as a base by looking at the totality in education principle. These values are '' being fair, giving importance to family unity, independence, peace, being scientific, sedulity, solidarity, honesty, sensitivity, tolerance, aesthetics, hospitality, freedom, give importance to being healthy, respect, love, responsibility, cleanliness, patriotism, cooperation. Document analysis based on a qualitative method was used in this study. According to the results of the study, mostly sensitivity, being scientific and giving importance to be healthy took place in the texts contained in the coursebooks. On the contrary, being fair, freedom and cleanliness value took a little part. There is no value that is not included in the text from the specified values. STRUCTURED ABSTRACT * Yrd. Doç. Dr. İnönü Üniversitesi Eğitim Fakültesi İlköğretim Bölümü Sınıf Öğretmenliği ABD, El -mek: hasan.aydemir@inonu.edu.tr ** Sınıf Öğretmeni, aslihannozell@gmail.com