Ayşe Çaylak Türker

Ayşe Çaylak Türker is a professor of early Christian and Byzantine art history at Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University. She specialises in material culture from the 2nd to 15th centuries. She wrote her doctoral thesis on ceramic finds from the excavations of the Church of St. Nicholas in Myra. She has also worked as a researcher on the Anaia Excavations, the Kubad Abad Seljuk Palace Excavations, the Antakya Excavations, and the Alanya (Mountainous Cilicia) Archaeological Survey, and has published work on Byzantine artefact groups. In 2005, she conducted a project on Byzantine settlement patterns in the Hellespont region, which was supported by Tübitak for five years. She conducted archaeological surveys in valleys reaching the Hellespont, a project supported by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey. While conducting these studies, she also worked on documenting and evaluating Byzantine artefacts in the Çanakkale Archaeological Museum. She has published work on the settlement patterns, ceramics, and architectural decorations she identified during these studies.