Self-reflection in post-colonial archaeology: A case study over Türkiye

There are many different faces of colonization, and it can be suggested that in the case of Turkish archaeology, this face appears as self-colonization. Beginning with the last centuries of the Ottoman Empire and continuing through the Republican period until today, archaeology has been developed as a tool of modernization in Türkiye. The aim of this thesis is to explore the historical development of Turkish archaeology and its self-colonizing aspects, how it was reflected on the publications by the Turkish government, and the public archaeological projects that were conducted in the country.