[6][7][8] Ocak was a faculty member in the department of Turkish language and literature at Hacettepe University until May 2013.

[10] In 1980, she became associate professor and her study for the title was entitled Nef'i and his Turkish divan.

[13] Ocak analysed poems and divan of Nef'i, a major poet in Ottoman poetry.

[19] She is the editor of the second edition of Modern Bilimin Doğuşunda Bizans'ın Etkisi Var mıdır?, a book by Sevim Tekeli.

[21] Her pupils and colleagues published a book for her in 2013, entitled Prof. Dr. F. Tulga Ocak'a Armağan.