In this study, the acquisition of tenses in Turkish-speaking children between the ages of 3 and 4 is examined. Particular attention is given to the anchored tenses in narratives for kids, the connection between the ability to follow a plot structure and the propensity to maintain a dominant tense, and the emergence of the suffixes "-mIş" and "-(I)yor" with age. The study intends to examine the degree to which the relationship between tense and narrative structure is apparent in young children's language use and compare its findings with those of Aksu-Koç (1994) on 3 and 5-year-olds. Data were gathered through elicitation tasks and narrative retellings, and their accuracy and frequency of tense usage were analyzed. According to the findings, the children in this study exhibit tense acquisition patterns that are comparable to those seen in earlier studies, with a preference for present tense and present progressive markers. The study also demonstrates a relationship between narrative structure and tense usage, indicating that children's growing comprehension of narrative coherence may affect how they utilize tense and aspect markers. Last but not least, the results provide some credence to Özcan's (2007) assertion that the use of "-mIş" declines with age while the use of "-(I)yor" rises, however more studies are required to corroborate this pattern. These findings have consequences for how we see the linguistic growth of Turkish-speaking children.