Until the last quarter of the 20th century, most of our knowledge on the sharks of the Turkish waters was based on elasmobranch-specific chapters in general ichthyological inventory studies and on a limited number of anecdotal studies. Since the mid-1990s, however, there has been a remarkable rise in the number and quality of shark-specific studies and publications, resulting in a gradual filling of the gaps in our understanding of the sharks of the Turkish waters. Based on the publication dates, there were only 2 shark-specific articles published before 1990, 8 scientific articles about the sharks of the Turkish waters between 1990 and 2000, and as many as 88 papers dealing with several aspects of the sharks of Turkey since, for a total of 96 articles on the sharks of the Turkish waters published between 1968 and 2018. Hopefully, future studies by new generations of researchers will provide new data on several aspects of the sharks of the Turkish waters, which can deepen our understanding of them and complete their life stories.