Kakuk's interest in Turkology began with an interest in
Ottoman Turkishloanwords in Hungarian. Later work involved visiting
Turkish-speaking communities throughout the
Balkans to examine their dialects. Other work included compiling an anthology of early and medieval Turkic texts and studying the folklore of various Turkic-speaking groups, including the
Kazan Tatars and
Crimean Tatars. During a visit to China in 1960, Kakuk was able to gather materials on the
Salar language and provided some of the earliest descriptions of the language in Western academic literature.[1]
In 1984 Kakuk founded the Hungarian orientalist journal KeletkutatásISSN0133-4778; she served as its editor-in-chief until 1994.
Kakuk, Zsuzsa (1967). Kossuth kéziratai a török nyelvről [Kossuth's manuscripts on the Turkish language]. Kőrösi Csoma kiskönyvtár (in Hungarian). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
OCLC3518249.
Kakuk, Suzanne (1973). Recherches sur l'histoire de la langue osmanlie des XVIe et XVIIe siècles; les éléments osmanlis de la langue hongroise [Research on the history of the Ottoman language of the 16th and 17th Centuries; the Ottoman elements in the Hungarian language] (in French). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó.
OCLC3206605.
Kakuk, Zsuzsa, ed. (1981). Hungarian turcology, 1945-1974: bibliography. Budapest: Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
ISBN9789637301377.
OCLC12663012.