  This paper describes our work on parsing Turkish using the lexical-functional
grammar formalism. This work represents the first significant effort for
parsing Turkish. Our implementation is based on Tomita's parser developed at
Carnegie-Mellon University Center for Machine Translation. The grammar covers a
substantial subset of Turkish including simple and complex sentences, and deals
with a reasonable amount of word order freeness. The complex agglutinative
morphology of Turkish lexical structures is handled using a separate two-level
morphological analyzer. After a discussion of key relevant issues regarding
Turkish grammar, we discuss aspects of our system and present results from our
implementation. Our initial results suggest that our system can parse about
82\% of the sentences directly and almost all the remaining with very minor
pre-editing.
