Acknowledgments

1We are grateful to Bayram Balcı (IFEA-Istanbul), Peter Campbell (Boğaziçi University), Boğaç Ergene (University of Vermont), Isabelle Gilles (IFEA-Istanbul), Megan MacDonald (Koç University), Martha Mundy (LSE-UK), Marinos Sariyannis (Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas), and Turgay Bayındır (Kadir Has University) for their help during the preparation of this volume. We would also like to thank to the following institutions for the financial and logistical support that made it possible to organize the workshop and to publish this volume: The French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), The French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA-Istanbul) in Istanbul, The Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) and The Netherlands Institute in Turkey.