The British Association for Turkish Area Studies,is an independent,non-political society that acts as an interface between the community of scholars at UK universities working on ‘Turkish’ subjects in the broadest possible sense and a wider public interested in these issues. We organise lectures, symposia, webinars and occasional special events, and publish a substantial biannual journal, the Turkish Area Studies Review,which is freely accessible on this website. In our entire range of activities, we seek to cover history, politics, economics, language, culture, the arts – everything, in fact, with a ‘Turkish’ connection as defined above. And our approach is not exclusively academic; we welcome personal reminiscences and artistic interpretations as well as scholarly analyses of particular topics.