This 3-year long BIAA project aimed at fostering a cross-discpilinary exchange of research findings and cooperation on research methods for the study of the movement of people, things and ideas in Turkey and the wider region from the Paleolithic era until today.

The Çaltılar survey project was concerned with northern Lycia during the Bronze and Early Iron Ages, specifically its settlement history and material culture.  Work was undertaken between 2008 and 2010 and directed jointly by Nicoletta Momigliano, Alan Greaves, Tamar Hodos, and Belgin Aksöy.

Director: Douglas Baird. The project’s main goals were to understand the appearance and trajectory of sedentary, cultivating, and herding communities in the understudied region of central Anatolia, and has also invested in public outreach and heritage management.

The Göksu archaeological project ran between 2002 and 2006 and was aimed at examining the area between Mut and Karaman that was threatened with flooding by the construction of the Mut dam.  Hugh Elton directed this project, which also surveyed surrounding regions to provide a context for the settlement.

In 1993, after a hiatus of nearly three decades, excavation and survey work at Çatalhöyük was resumed under the direction of Ian Hodder.  With multiple international teams working side by side, new discoveries have occurred on a larger scale than ever before.  

Beginning in 1993 the BIAA has collaborated in work at the significant Iron Age site of Kerkenes Dağ.  An interesting picture of the site’s history and inhabitants has emerged as a variety of methodologies have been undertaken at the site.

Beginning in 1987, excavation work at Amorium (Afyonkarahisar Province) represents the longest-running British archaeological project in Turkey.  First directed by Martin Harrison, the excavations have been led by Chris Lightfoot since 1993. 

After two initial seasons of work at Pisidian Antioch in 1982-1983, the Pisidia Survey Project evolved as a regional project to record monuments, inscriptions and other identifiable surface remains of the Classical and Postclassical period in the area of ancient Pisidia.  Directed by Stephen Mitchell from 1982 to 1996, it has up to the present been under the direction of Lutgarde Vandeput.

Excavations at the prehistoric site of Can Hasan took place near Alaçatı village (Karaman Province) between 1961 and 1970, with David French acting as project director.  In addition to the many interesting finds made at this site, Can Hasan also contributed (along with Çatalhöyük) to a more complete stratigraphic sequence for the Konya Plain.

The Polatlı excavations were directed by Seton Lloyd and Nuri Gökçe in 1951.  The work comprised a new investigation into third and second millennium stratigraphy in Anatolia.

The project, focusing primarily on diplomatic and political history, explores the relationship between Turkey and Britain from the First World War to Turkey’s entry into NATO in 1952.

Based on an anthropological / ethnographic approach, this project focused particularly on the implications that the use of social media in Southeast Turkey had on gender, morality, intimacy, and kinship. 

This 3-year long BIAA project aimed at fostering a cross-discpilinary exchange of research findings and cooperation on research methods for the study of the movement of people, things and ideas in Turkey and the wider region from the Paleolithic era until today.

Balkan Futures, a project run jointly between the BIAA, the BSA (with the EF and LSE as key partner institutions), examines inter-regional development and cooperation in south-eastern Europe during a period of crisis rather than consolidation within the EU.

This project aimed at a new critical re-description of the rapprochement process between Greek and Turkish societies during a lengthy time span (1974-2010), offering innovative explanations about the emergence of reconciliation initiatives. 

The research project focused on a less-explored component of Islamic fashion, that is, on the design and production of commodified forms of religious appearance, and addresses the relationships between religion, economics and materiality that these activities, and their presentation and legitimation might reveal.

In 2009 a project exploring the relations between Ottoman and early Republican Turkey and the southeast Asian Muslim states was initiated by Andrew Peacock and Annabel Teh Gallop.  It fell under the umbrella of the BIAA’s ‘Frontiers of the Ottoman World’ strategic initiative and was conducted in collaboration with the Association for Southeast Asian Studies UK.

The joint CHM project of the BIAA and the archaeology department of Hacettepe University (Ankara) started in January 2013 and builds on results of the Aspendos Archaeological Project and the Pisidia Survey Project.

Director: Douglas Baird. The project’s main goals were to understand the appearance and trajectory of sedentary, cultivating, and herding communities in the understudied region of central Anatolia, and has also invested in public outreach and heritage management.

David Shankland undertook a unique programme for studying Çatalhöyük and the nearby village of Küçükköy as the research sites. The project was significant for the way it was able to combine two disciplines and approaches that typically remain very far from each other.

In 1963 and 1964 May Hamilton and Colin Beattie travelled across Anatolia in an exploration of the Turkish carpet industry.

Restoration work on the Church of Saint Sophia at Trabzon was directed by David Winfield and carried out in collaboration with the Walker Trust between 1957 and 1962. Paintings, frescoes, and other architectural elements were cleaned, restored, and preserved to the extent possible.