This paper presents a review of distance education literature published in the "Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education" ("TOJDE") to describe the status thereof and to identify gaps and priority areas in distance education research based on a validated classification of research areas. The articles (N=784) published between 2000 and 2015 were reviewed for this study. Findings indicated that issues related to educational technology are a popular research area in articles published in "TOJDE." Nearly all the articles are theoretical/descriptive, quantitative, or qualitative in nature. According to publication and authorship patterns, "TOJDE" is an international journal with a special ability to reflect developments in its near region in the field of distance education. [This paper was published in: "Human and Artificial Intelligence for the Society of the Future. European Distance and E-Learning Network (EDEN) Conference Proceedings," European Distance and E-Learning Network, 2020, pp. 217-225.]