Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM — GGUF 🇹🇷⚡

Quantized GGUF versions of muhammedksee/Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM for local inference on consumer hardware — no data center GPU required.

Looking for the full-precision model? Training details, hyperparameters, and benchmark results are in the base repository.


Developer

Field Value
Developer Muhammed Köse
LinkedIn muhammedksee
GitHub muhammedksee
Base Model (BF16) muhammedksee/Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM
License Apache 2.0

Available Quantizations

File Quant Size RAM Required Notes
Qwen3.5-9B-InstrucTurca-Q4_K_M.gguf Q4_K_M ~5.5–6.5 GB 8 GB min / 16 GB recommended Recommended — best balance of quality and memory

Why Q4_K_M?

Running a 9B-parameter model at full precision (BF16) requires a data center-grade GPU. GGUF quantization compresses the model weights with minimal quality loss, making it fit in consumer RAM and VRAM.

Q4_K_M retains nearly all of the model's Turkish language understanding and reasoning capability while cutting memory usage roughly in half. It is the community standard for everyday use and local RAG pipelines.


System Requirements

Config RAM / VRAM
Minimum (CPU only) 8 GB RAM
Recommended 16 GB RAM or VRAM
GPU acceleration Apple Silicon (M1/M2/M3) or NVIDIA RTX 3050+

GPU offloading is optional but strongly recommended — with a supported GPU you can reach tens of tokens/second instead of single digits on CPU.


Quick Start

Option 1 — Ollama

Preferred for terminal access or running a local API server.

Step 1. Download the GGUF file.

Step 2. Create a file named Modelfile (no extension) in the same directory:

FROM ./Qwen3.5-9B-InstrucTurca-Q4_K_M.gguf

TEMPLATE """<|im_start|>system
{{ .System }}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
{{ .Prompt }}<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant
"""

SYSTEM """Sen yardımcı, dürüst ve zararsız bir Türkçe yapay zeka asistanısın."""

Step 3. Build and run:

ollama create turca-9b -f Modelfile
ollama run turca-9b

Option 2 — Python / llama-cpp-python

For integrating the model into your own Python projects (local RAG, automation agents, etc.).

pip install llama-cpp-python
from llama_cpp import Llama

llm = Llama(
    model_path="./Qwen3.5-9B-InstrucTurca-Q4_K_M.gguf",
    n_ctx=4096,       # context window
    n_threads=8,      # CPU threads — match your core count
    n_gpu_layers=35   # increase if you have more VRAM
)

system_prompt = "Sen uzman bir yazılım mühendisi ve yapay zeka asistanısın."
user_prompt   = "Python'da liste üreteçleri (list comprehensions) nedir? Kısa bir örnek ver."

prompt = (
    f"<|im_start|>system\n{system_prompt}<|im_end|>\n"
    f"<|im_start|>user\n{user_prompt}<|im_end|>\n"
    f"<|im_start|>assistant\n"
)

output = llm(
    prompt,
    max_tokens=512,
    temperature=0.7,
    top_p=0.9,
    stop=["<|im_end|>"]
)

print(output["choices"][0]["text"])

Prompt Format (ChatML)

This model uses the standard Qwen ChatML format. Always follow this template when calling the model directly — deviating from it increases hallucination risk and degrades output quality.

<|im_start|>system
Sen Türkçe konuşan, yardımcı bir asistansın.<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>user
Merhaba, nasılsın?<|im_end|>
<|im_start|>assistant

The system prompt can be in Turkish or English. Turkish system prompts are recommended as they better align with the fine-tuning distribution.


Intended Use

Use Case Verdict
Turkish conversational assistant (local) ✅ Primary use case
Local RAG over Turkish documents ✅ Recommended
Offline / privacy-sensitive deployment ✅ Fully local, no data sent anywhere
Production enterprise (high-stakes) ⚠️ Test against your workload first
Complex coding / advanced reasoning ⚠️ Full-precision BF16 model may perform better

Limitations

Quantization loss. Q4_K_M is a 4-bit mathematical compression. While the quality difference is minimal for most tasks, very fine-grained Turkish grammar nuances or highly complex math/coding problems may show slight degradation compared to the BF16 base model.

No benchmark results yet. Formal evaluations (MT-Bench TR, MMLU-TR, base model comparison) are in progress. See the base repository for updates.

SFT only. No DPO or RLHF alignment stage was applied to the base model. Responses may occasionally be less reliable than preference-aligned models.

Test on your specific workload before production deployment.


Related Resources

Resource Link
Base model (BF16) muhammedksee/Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM
Training dataset turkish-nlp-suite/InstrucTurca
Original base model Qwen/Qwen3.5-9B
Ollama ollama.com

Citation

@misc{kose2025qwen35turca_gguf,
  author    = {Muhammed Köse},
  title     = {Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM GGUF},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {Hugging Face},
  url       = {https://huggingface.co/muhammedksee/Qwen3.5-9B-Instruct-Turca-TurkishLLM-GGUF}
}
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