An Archaeology of the Turkish War of Independence: Landscape and Time

This book is about the conflict which resolved the Greek-Turkish War of 1919-1922: the Great Offensive.

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.