The founding editors-in-chief were Gül Durmuşoğlu, Kamile İmer, Ahmet Kocaman, and A. Sumru Özsoy. Durmuşoğlu served in the post from 1990 to 1993, İmer, Kocaman, and Özsoy from 1990 to 2011. The current editor of the journal has been Deniz Zeyrek, professor of linguistics at Middle East Technical University, since 2011.
