1st Edition
An Archaeology of the Turkish War of Independence Landscape and Time
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Historical Background: From Defeat of the Ottoman Empire to Foundation of the Turkish Republic
Chapter 3: Hector’s Vengeance: Historical Background of the Echoes of the Great Offensive
Chapter 4: Battlefields and Material Remains of the Great Offensive
Chapter 5: Those Hard Days: Memoryscapes of the Greco-Turkish War
Chapter 6: ‘Beware of the Buried’: The Locals, Landscape and Material Culture of the Great Offensive
Chapter 7: Imaginings of the Great Offensive
Chapter 8: The Day of the Turk: Commemoration of the Great Offensive
Chapter 9: Experiencing the Battlefield as a Visitor
Chapter 10: Living in the Battlefield of Dumlupınar
Chapter 11: Conclusion: Timelines, Spaces and Echoes of the Great Offensive
Biography
Ömer Can Aksoy is an affiliated post-doctoral researcher at the University of Exeter’s Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies and co-founder of Teos Heritage Consultancy. His research interests include modern conflict archaeology in Turkey and the Iron Age of the Arabian Peninsula. Some of his recent publications include: Aksoy, Ö.C. and Kahraman, G. (2022), 'Monuments, narratives and commemoration at the Battlegrounds of Dumlupınar', War and Society, 41, pp. 220–246; Aksoy, Ö.C. (2021), 'Revisiting the Battle of Dumlupınar, an archaeological investigation of the Turkish Battle of Independence', Post-Medieval Archaeology, 55, pp. 109–136; and Aksoy, Ö.C. and Bayar, Z. (2016), 'Archaeological ethnography of the Battle of Aslıhanlar: A case of public archaeology, visual storytelling and interactive map design', European Journal of Archaeology, 19(1), pp. 68–94.
