ARIT fellowships support wide-ranging projects

Programs

ARIT events explore the cultural and historical richness of Turkey

Libraries

ARIT offers a wealth of research resources

ARIT supports programs that explore and preserve heritage

Collaborations

ARIT Istanbul

The ARIT Istanbul Library Annex has relocated to Karakoy and access is limited for the time being. ARIT lectures and book talks continue online, however, and the growing resources of the American Board Library and Archives are always accessible through the ARIT Istanbul Digital Library.
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ARIT Ankara

ARIT Ankara and Friends have offered a strong series of online lectures on the Art, Archaeology, and Architecture of Turkey over the past year. Most ARIT events are accessible on ARIT’s new YouTube channel. The staff at both centers are waiting for students, researchers, and friends to return in person.
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Library Resources

In addition to their focused research collections, ARIT libraries offer digital research resources through SALT Research and the Digital Library for International Research. Affiliated institutions provide diverse K-14 curriculum materials.
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Turkish Language Program

ARIT fellowships for participation in Boğaziçi University’s Turkish Language and Culture Program For summer 2024, 17 students participated in the program of intensive classes and enrichment activities at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. The new application deadline will be in February 2025
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Collaborations

ARIT in collaboration with five other Turkey-based research centers have undertaken The Feriköy Protestant Cemetery Initiative. The project aims to preserve, document, and study Istanbul’s main Protestant cemetery as an important local historic landmark.
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Fellowships

ARIT NEH research fellow Dr. Leyla Kayhan Elbirlik, analyzing research data from her home office in Istanbul, summer 2020. Her project, Negotiating Matrimony: Marriage, Divorce, Children and Property in Istanbul, 1750-1920, focuses on the history of the marital bond in the late 18th to early 20th-century Ottoman Istanbul.
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Condolence

Your support builds new knowledge, protects heritage, and promotes academic exchanges among students, scholars, and friends in Turkey. A legacy gift will keep ARIT’s research programs and services strong for future generations.

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With great sorrow, we at ARIT extend our deepest condolences to Türkiye and share the sorrow of all those who lost family and loved ones in the recent earthquakes.

Türkiye’deki depremlerde yakınlarını ve sevdiklerini kaybeden herkesin üzüntüsünü paylaşır, tüm Türkiye’ye başsağlığı dileriz.