1. Paul Stirling - Turkish Village Archives
A useful page to read before you begin:

2. Important events in Turkish history
11th century Turks invade and conquer all of Anatolia.
1299 Establishment of the Ottoman Principality
1453 Mehmet II conquers Constanstinople (Istanbul)
16th century The height of the Ottoman Empire. Suleyman the Magnificent
1918 Turkey surrenders to Allies. Turkey occupied by Anglo-French armies
War for independence

3. The REALLY important events in Turkish history
1923 Mustapha Kemal (Ataturk) founded the Republic of Turkey
1938 Death of Ataturk
1960 Military coup after the introduction of multi-party democracy
1980 Military coup after social unrest

4. Reforms 1924 Abolition of the Caliphate
1925 Abolition of the fez; suppression of religious brotherhoods; closing of sacred tombs as places of worship
1926 Adoption of new Civil Law code
1928 Introduction of Latin alphabet
1934 Kemal takes the name of Ataturk when a new law required Turks to adopt surnames; women made eligible to vote in elections and to become members of Parliament

5. Professor Paul Stirling
Student of Evans-Pritchard at Oxford
Stirling did initial fieldwork in Sakaltutan, Turkey in 1949 to 1950.
Second trip to Turkey in 1951 in the village of Elbasi.
Third trip in 1952.
He continued to do field work in the area until the 1990’s.

6. Map of Turkey

7. Regional map

8. Sakaltutan, 1949

9. Sakaltutan, 1993

10. The Archives A Turkish Village, Paul’s 1965 monograph
Paul’s doctoral thesis from Oxford
Thousands of photographs
Over 8,000 pages of fieldnotes
All of Paul’s published and unpublished articles
Margaret Stirling’s fieldnotes
Paul’s research assistants fieldnotes
Three formal household surveys: 1950, 1971, 1985

11. Some of Paul’s interests
Social change
Economics
Migration