AKMED

AKMED publications

Abut, Ahmet (comp.), Fotoğraflarla Atatürk/Atatürk en Photos/Atatürk with Photos, Istanbul, 1998

Akalın, Şebnem and Bilgi, Hülya Yılmaz, Suna ve İnan Kıraç Koleksiyonunda Kütahya Seramikleri: Yadigâr-ı Kütahya (Kütahya Ceramics in the Suna and İnan Kıraç Collection: Delights of Kütahya), Istanbul, 1997

Alçıtepe, Galip, Antalya’da İki Öncü Dergi (Two Leading Journals in Antalya), Antalya, 2005

Altun, Ara et al., Çanakkale Seramikleri/Çanakkale Ceramics, Istanbul, 1996

Atay, Çınar, 19. Yüzyıl İzmir Fotoğrafları (19th Century Izmir Photos), Istanbul, 1997

Aydın, Ayşe, Lahit Formlu Rölikerler/Reliquaries of the Sarcophagus Type, Antalya, 2011

Aygün, Çakır Afşin, Andriake Mureks Boya Endüstrisi/Andriake Murex Dye Industry, Istanbul, 2016

Bayburtluoğlu, Cevdet, Lykia (Lycia), Istanbul, 2004

Beaufort, Francis, Karamanya (Karamania, Turkish translation), Istanbul, 2002

Belli, Oktay, Anadolu’da Kalay and Bronzun Tarihçesi (History of Tin and Bronze in Anatolia), Istanbul, 2004

Borchhardt, Jürgen et al., Kerththi oder der Versuch, eine antike Siedlung der Klassik in Zentrallykien zu identifizieren (Kerththi or the Attempt to Identify an Ancient Classical Settlement in Central Lycia), Istanbul, 2005

Borchhardt, Jürgen and Bleibtreu, Erika, Strukturen lykischer Residenzstädte im Vergleich zu älteren Städten des Vorderen Orients (Comparison of Lycian Central Administrative Cities with Early Cities of Asia Minor), Antalya, 2013

Çevik, Nevzat et al. (ed.), Trebenna: Tarihi, Arkeolojisi ve Doğası/Trebenna: History, Archaeology and Natural Environment, Istanbul, 2005

Çevik, Nevzat, Lykia Kitabı (The Book of Lycia), Istanbul, 2015

Çokay-Kepçe, Sedef, Antalya Karaçallı Nekropolü/The Karaçallı Necropolis near Antalya Istanbul, 2006

Danieloğlu, Dimitri E., 1850 Yılında Yapılan Bir Pamphylia Seyahati (A Trip to Pamphylia in 1850), Antalya, 2010

Delemen, İnci et al. (ed.), Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoğlu’na 65. Yaş Armağanı - Euergetes/Festschrift für Prof. Dr. Haluk Abbasoğlu zum 65. Geburtstag – Euergetes (65th Birthday Present for Prof. Haluk Abbasoğlu), Istanbul, 2008

Dostoğlu, Neslihan Türkün, Osmanlı Döneminde Bursa. 19. Yüzyıl Ortalarından 20. Yüzyıla Bursa Fotoğrafları/Bursa à l’Époque Ottomane, Photographies de Bursa Milieu du XIXéme au XXéme Siècle/Bursa in the Ottoman Period, Photographs of Bursa from Mid-19th to the 20th Century, Istanbul, 2001

Dörtlük, Kayhan et al. (ed.), III. Uluslararası Likya Sempozyumu: Sempozyum Bildirileri/III. International Lycia Symposium: Proceedings 2 Vol., Istanbul, 2007

Dörtlük, Kayhan and Boyraz, Remziye, Çanakkale Seramikleri Kolokyumu Bildirileri (Çanakkale Ceramics Colloquium Proceedings), Antalya, 2008

Dörtlük, Kayhan and Boyraz, Remziye, Gezginlerin Gözüyle Antalya/Aus dem Blickwinkel von alten Reisenden (Antalya through the Eyes of Travelers), Antalya, 2008

Dörtlük, Kayhan et al. (ed.), Uluslararası Genç Bilimciler Buluşması I: Anadolu Akdenizi Sempozyum Bildirileri 4-7 Kasım 2009/International Young Scholars Conference I: Mediterranean Anatolia Symposium Proceedings 4-7 November 2009, Antalya, 2012

Dörtlük, Kayhan et al. (ed.), Birinci Uluslararası Anadolu Para Tarihi ve Numismatik Kongresi. Bildiriler/First International Congress on Monetary History and Numismatics Proceedings, Istanbul, 2014

Duru, Refik, MÖ 8000’den MÖ 2000’e Burdur-Antalya Bölgesinin Altıbin Yılı (6000 Years of the Burdur-Antalya Region from 8 BCE to 2 BCE), Istanbul, 2008

Duru, Refik, Elli Yıllık Bir Arkeoloji Öyküsü: Hacılar (A Fifty Year Archaeology Tale: Hacılar), Antalya, 2010

Durugönül, Serra (ed.), Dağlık Kilikia’da Bir Antik Kent Kazısının Sonuçları: Nagidos/Nagidos: Results of an Excavation in an Ancient City in Rough Cilicia, Istanbul, 2007

Eschbach, Norbert and Martini, Wolfram, Akropolis von Perge (The Perga Acropolis), Antalya, 2017

Işık, Fahri, Doğa Ana Kubaba. Tanrıçaların Ege’de Buluşması (Mother Nature Kubaba. Meeting of the Goddesses in the Aegean), Istanbul, 1999

Kavas, Kemal Reha, Akdeniz Dağlık Yerleşimindeki Kırsal Mimari Gelenekte Çevre Estetiği: Ürünlü (Akseki-İbradı Havzası)/Environmental Aesthetics of the Rural Architectural Tradition in the Mediterranean Highlander Settlement: Ürünlü (Akseki-İbradı Basin), Istanbul, 2016

Kaymak, Gamze, Antalya Cumanın Camii: Mimari Tarihi ve Bizans Kökeni Rölöve-Yapı Analizi - Anıt Koruma and Bakımı/Die Cumanın Camii in Antalya: Ihre Baugeschichte und ihre byzantinischen Ursprünge Bauaufnahme-Bauforschung – Denkmalpflege (Antalya Cumanın Mosque: Architectural History and Byzantine Origin Relevé–Structural Analysis – Conservation and Maintenance of the Monument), Antalya, 2009

Koch, Guntram, Türkiye’deki Roma İmparatorluk Dönemi Lahitleri/Sarkophage der Römischen Kaiserzeit in der Türkei (Roman Tombs/Sarcophagi in Turkey), Antalya, 2010

Kürkman, Garo, Anadolu Ağırlık ve Ölçüleri/Anatolian Weights and Measures, Istanbul, 2003

Lanckoronski, Karl Graf, Pamphylia ve Pisidia Kentleri. 1. Cilt: Pamphylia (The Cities of Pamphylia and Pisidia, Vol. 1: Pamphylia) Istanbul, 2005

Lanckoronski, Karl Graf, Pamphylia ve Pisidia Kentleri, 2. Cilt: Pisidia (The Cities of Pamphylia and Pamphylia, Vol. 2: Pisidia), Istanbul, 2015

Nollé, Johannes, Coins, Sikkeler, Ağaçlar ve Alimler: Selge. Pisidia’nın Dağ Şehrinde Bir “Doğa Tapınağı” (Trees and Scholars: SELGE. A ‘Temple to Nature’ in the Mountain City of Pisidia), Istanbul, 2015

Onur, Bekir, Müze Eğitimi Seminerleri I: Akdeniz Bölgesi Müzeleri (Museum Education Seminars I. Museums of the Mediterranean Region), Antalya, 2003

Öney, Gönül, Akdenizle Kucaklaşan Osmanlı Seramikleri ve Günümüze Ulaşan Yansımaları/Ottoman Ceramics Embracing the Mediterranean and Their Reflections to the Present, Antalya, 2009

Özdizbay, Aşkım, Perge’nin M.S. 1.-2. Yüzyıllardaki Gelişimi/Die Stadtentwicklung von Perge im 1-2. Jh. N.Chr. (The Growth of Perge 1-2 AD), Antalya, 2012

Özüsağlam-Mutlu, Zeynep, Principatus Devri’nde Lykia ve Pamphylia Kökenli Roma Senatörleri (Roman Senators of Lycian and Pamphylian Origin during the Principate) Antalya, 2013

Recke, Matthias, In loco Murtana, ubi olim Perge sita fuit: Der Beginn archaologischer Forschungen in Pamphylien und die Kleinasien-Expedition Gustav Hirschfelds 1874/ Pamphylia’daki Arkeolojik Araştırmaların Başlangıcı ve Gustav Hirschfeld’in 1874 Yılı Küçük Asya Araştırma Gezisi (The Start of Archaeological Study in Pamphylia, and the Asia Minor Expedition of Gustav Hirschfield 1874), Antalya, 2007

Redford, Scott and Leiser, Gary, Taşa Yazılan Zafer: Antalya İçkale Surlarındaki Selçuklu Fetihnamesi/Victory Inscribed: Seljuk Fetihname on the Citadel Walls of Antalya, Istanbul, 2008

Soustiel, Laure and Garnot, Nicolas Sainte Fare, Osmanlı Seramiklerinin Görkemi, XVI.-XIX. Yüzyıl (The Grandeur of Ottoman Ceramics, 16th to 19th centuries), Istanbul, 2000

Spratt, T.A.B. and Forbes, Edward, Milyas, Kibyratis ve Likya’da Yolculuklar (Journeys in Milyas, Kibriyatis and Lycia) 2 Vol., Istanbul, 2008

Şahin, Hamdi et al. (ed.), Özsait Armağanı: Mehmet ve Nesrin Özsait Onuruna Sunulan Makaleler/Studies Presented to Mehmet and Nesrin Özsait, Antalya, 2011

Şahin, Nuran, Zeus’un Anadolu Kültleri (Anatolian Cults of Zeus), Istanbul, 2001

Tansel, Oğuz, Zakkum Çiçeği Tan Yerinde: Antalya Dolayları Üzerine Şiirler/At the Dawn of Oleander Blossoms: Poems on Antalya Environs, Antalya, 2011

Tekin, Oğuz and Teken, Nil Türker, Mülteci Bir Akdemisyenin Biyografisi, Clemens Emin Bosch (1899-1955)/Biography of a Refugee Academician, Clemens Emin Bosch (1899-1955), Istanbul, 2007

Tekocak, Mehmet (ed.), K. Levent Zoroğlu’na Armağan/Studies in Honor of K. Levent Zoroğlu, Istanbul, 2013

Türker, Ayşe Ç., Demre/Myra Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi Bizans Dönemi Sırsız Seramikleri/ Byzantine Unglazed Pottery of Saint Nicholas Church at Demre-Myra, Antalya, 2009

Uçkan, B. Yelda Olcay (ed.), Olympos 1, 2000-2014 Araştırma Sonuçları (Olympos 1, 2000-2014 Research Findings), Antalya, 2017

Urfalıoğlu, Nur, Antalya, Isparta ve Burdur Evlerinde Cephe Biçimlenişi (Facade Formation of Antalya, Isparta and Burdur Houses), Antalya 2010

Winiewicz-Wolska, Joanna, Jacek Malczewski’nin Anadolu’ya Yolculuğu/Jacek Malczewski’s Journey to Anatolia, Antalya, 2014

AKMED: The fulfillment of a commitment...

Suna Kıraç considered the Research Center for Mediterranean Civilizations as her “first sweetheart”, founding it in Antalya, a place of incomparable cultural heritage and the cradle of Mediterranean Civilization. Suna Kıraç discussed the idea for the institute with archaeologists, historians and academics while visiting excavations at important archaeological sites in Antalya. Believing that the institute should be “not local but universal” she finally decided on a name that alluded to the Mediterranean in general rather than just Antalya.

The concept of the institute was inspired by an institute in Marseille. In fact, the true response to the historical call of the Marseillais should have risen from the ancient cultural heritage of Antalya and the lands that gave birth to the Ottoman Empire. The Marseillais, who drove Mediterranean trade and acted as ambassadors on behalf of the king, called for a common Mediterranean history through their chambers of commerce:

“All the countries bordering the Mediterranean should establish an institute of Mediterranean civilization in order to unite our histories. Through mutual exchanges of information, we can break new ground on the shared history of the Mediterranean and strengthen each other through academic solidarity between the institutes.”
 This call was answered by the major cities of the Mediterranean, following which institutes established in Morocco, Egypt, Dubai, Lebanon, Spain, former Yugoslavia and Italian cities such as Venice, Florence and Pisa played a prominent role in the research of Mediterranean civilization. All the while, as a large part of the historical archives of the Mediterranean countries had previously been brought to the Ottoman capital, the main resource lay in the state archives of Istanbul. It was Turkey that had given the idea to the Marseillais, so it was all the more strange that this proposal, that met with a response in other Mediterranean countries, did not get off the ground in Turkey. The founding of AKMED was, in some part, the fulfillment of this commitment several years later.

Two letters from İnan Kıraç

June 3, 1991

My Dear Suna,

Today is June 3, 1991... The day you become 50. You have spent 24 of those years with me. I love you and have shared my finest memories, all my happiness with you.

Having looked at my financial situation, this year I am able to buy you a historical church in the Barbaros district of Antalya.

The name of your dear mother lives on today through the Sadberk Hanım Museum and many works of our cultural heritage are protected under its roof. You and her other children have done everything you can to ensure that these works survive.

My only wish is that this house of God is turned into a museum named after you. You can be absolutely sure that I will do whatever is necessary to get the required permission for this and for the building’s restoration.

My dear Suna, I am writing a letter to our daughter İpek along with this letter. Just like you, she will be a child worthy of her mother and will look after the institution established in your name; she will make it even more perfect and leave it to her children.

 Suna, I wish you a happy birthday and wish us many more happy years together.

 With all my love,

 İnan Kıraç
 
June 3, 1991

My Dear İpek,

Today is June 3, 1991... Your mother’s 50th birthday. On June 7, you will have finished the first grade of elementary school.

I’ve bought your mother a church in Barbaros Street in Kaleiçi, Antalya. We have loved it for a long time but not had the opportunity to buy it until now. As I wrote to her in a letter attached to this one, I am giving her the building as a birthday present. I will also do my utmost to restore the building and have it turned into a museum.
 What I ask of you is that you give your material and moral support to keeping it going and making it even grander for as long as you live.

My dear İpek, your mother played a huge role in the growth of the Sadberk Hanım Museum; I have absolutely no doubt that you will do the same for the place named after her and work as hard as possible to keep it alive and develop it further.

İnan Kıraç