Trip to Turkey

From Tarsus we flew to Ankara. There we met Prof. Ozgen. Ilknur took us into the city where we met Dr. Bahadir Yıldirim, the Director of ARIT, who accompanied us to the Ministry of Culture. Thanks to Prof. Ozgen's advance work we were able to meet (in one day!) with the Director of Museums (Mr. Omer Çakı) , the Head of Excavations and Surveys (Mr. Melik Ayaz), and the General Director (Mr. Nadir Avçı). We stayed in guest houses at Bilkent University, where we met old friends and colleagues: Prof. Marie-Henriette Carre Gates (AB 1970), chair of the Department of Archaeology, Prof. Charles Gates, and Prof. Yaşar Ersoy (MA 1989, PhD 1993). Ilknur hosted an intimate and sumptious luncheon at her apartment for Profs. Tahsin and Nimet Ozguç. That evening, accompanied by Prof. Ozgen, we flew to Antalya. The next morning we visited the Antalya Museum, met with the director and picked up Mrs. Azize Yener, our representative and the museum conservator, who came with us to Elmalı. Photographs on this and successive pages document the visits to Ankara and Elmalı. There are views of the excavation house and the photographs on the walls of excavation staff, pictures of Abdullah, Hafize and Sadih Aytulum and the site guard, Mustafa.


Tarsus: A gem of stone-carving, early 20th c., Oct. 7, 2003.	At Prof. Ilknur Ozgen’s apartment with Dr. Nimet and Prof. Dr. Tahsin Ozguç, Oct 11, 2003.	At Prof. Ilknur Ozgen’s apartment with Dr. Nimet and Prof. Dr. Tahsin Ozguç, Oct 11, 2003.	Feasting at Ilknur’s table, Oct. 11, 2003.

Elmalı: On the balcony at the dig house.	Elmalı: Lucia Nixon!	Elmalı: At the site! (Sadih kneeling next to Abdullah Aytulum, Lucia Nixon behind, then Jayne Warner and to right Prof. Mellink and Bob Bridges)—others can name the workmen.	Eşkı hükümet binamızı müze olarak görmek istiyoruz! The goal that we are about to realize: A museum and storeroom.