Özet:

Archaeology is a branch of science that tries to illuminate our past by studying the material products that man created in ancient times. The basis of the excavation work in the territory of Turkey is XIX. In the second half of the century, the Ottoman state began with travel for scientific, political and military purposes. Archaeology was an archaeological science that was born and developed in the continent of Europe. Therefore, the first archaeological excavations in the territory of Turkey were carried out by foreign archaeologists from abroad.  The Turkish Archaeology, which was founded by foreign scientists in the territory of Anatolia in the last period of the Ottoman State, in the period of the Republic of Turkey. With Kemal Atatürk’s efforts, he has shown great progress and has reached a level to be able to compete with Europe. In the first years of the Republic to develop Turkish Archaeology, institutions such as the Turkish Historical Institute were established in 1931 under the order of M. Kemal, and in 1934 the Turkish Archaeological Institute. To solve the lack of qualifying elements, the Archaeology Course was first established at the University of Istanbul and then in 1936 the Faculty of Language and History-Geography was opened to try to solve the deficiencies in the field of education. Scientists of Muslim origin who fled from abroad, especially from Nazi Germany, were invited to Turkey to work in these educational institutions. This article will try to reveal the contributions of the Turkish archaeology by the Turkish scientists on the territory of Turkey between 1923-1938, which is called the Atatürk period.