Kent kurtarma kazıları: İstanbul Yenikapı kurtarma kazıları örneği

The aim of this thesis is to provide an overview and analysis of urban rescue archaeology in Turkey using İstanbul Yenikapı Metro Marmaray Rescue Excavations as a case study.Excavations within the Marmaray Metro Projects in the city of İstanbulare, according to Turkish legislation, supposed to be under the authority of the local archaeological museum which in this case the İstanbul Archaeological Museums. Within the vast number of archaeological sites on the European and Asian sides of İstanbul the Yenikapı rescue excavations are the largest ones. Yenikapı located on the southern shores of the Marmara Sea, inside the Historical Peninsula and known as Langa corresponds the largest harbor of Byzantine Constantinople, Eleutherious. Excavations began in 2004 and where continuing in the time which this thesis completed.My research for the purpose of this thesis is formed by four main topics. These are the development of urban rescue excavations in Europe and in Turkey specifically; national and international legislations pertaining rescue excavations; analysis of preliminary studies about the Yenikapı excavations and in depth examination of problems deriving from rescue archaeology with specific attention paid to the Yenikapı case.This thesis analyses the definition of rescue excavations according tonational and international legislations and declarations. This thesis concludes that Turkey lacks adequate legislations of urban rescue archaeology and this lack might be the basis of problems arising excavations in urban context.