American Research Institute in Turkey

  RESEARCH CENTERS IN TURKEY

ARIT maintains representative offices and research centers in both Istanbul and Ankara. Each ARIT research center has an American director, a research library open to the public, meeting facilities for the local Turkish and American community, and a hostel for visiting scholars. The hostel provides rooms and kitchen facilities for long- and short-term visitors.  Both centers offer access to e-mail accounts.  Guests from ARIT member institutions receive a discounted hostel rate.  Contact the ARIT centers directly for information and reservations. 

ARIT center directors provide assistance to visiting researchers with practical and official concerns. With the directors' help, ARIT’s counterpart organization in Istanbul, the Türk Amerikan Ilmi Arastirmalar Dernegi, provides the opportunity for direct contact with the Turkish scholarly community.

Turks, Americans, and other foreign researchers, from graduate students researching their dissertations to professors of international renown, regularly give lectures at the ARIT centers, attracting leading scholars from the entire local community. The lecture and the reception that follows provide excellent opportunities for the international exchange of information and ideas.

A searchable catalogue for the libraries of ARIT centers is accessible on the world-wide web at the American Overseas Digital Library server at http://www.aiys.org/aodl/index.php.