1. Sedad Hakki Eldem, preface to: Önder Küçükerman,Turkish House: In Search of Spatial Identity(Istanbul: Turkish Touring and Automobile Association, 2007), pp. 9–11. Eldem compares the unchecked loss of Turkish houses in modern-day Turkey unfavourably with the recognition and pres- ervation of Ottoman houses in the Empire’s former Balkan domains. A good sourcebook for the latter is: Nur Akin,Balkanlarda Osmanli Dönemi Konutlari(‘Ottoman Period Houses in the Balkans’) (Istanbul: Literatür, 2001). Among well-preserved Balkan examples are those in Koprivstitsa and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Notwithstanding Eldem’s comments, good examples in Turkey are to be found in a number of cities, including Eskişehir and Safranbolu.
2. Küçük Menderes Araştirmalari(‘Küçük Menderes Research’), ed. by Emin Başaranbilek (Istanbul: Çekül Vakfi, 2010).
3. Sedf Tunçağ,Birgi(Istanbul: Çekül Vakfi, 2010). Behiç Galip Yavuz,Birgi(Ödemiş: Birgi Belediyesi, 2011).
4. The example of Sibiu, Romania, is related in: Dennis Rodwell, ‘Comparative Approaches to Urban Conservation in Central and Eastern Europe: Zamość, Poland, and Sibiu, Romania’,The Historic Environment: Policy and Practice, 1·2 (2010), 116–42.
5. Metin Sözen and Cengiz Eruzun,Anadolu’da Ev ve Insan(‘House and Human in Anatolia’) (Istanbul: Emlak Bankasi, 1992). Önder Küçükerman,Turkish House: In Search of Spatial Identity(Istanbul: Turkish Touring and Automobile Association, 2007).