Antiquities official · Museum director
Ali Kanli
fl. 1994–1997 · Cyprus
Cypriot antiquities official and museum director, active 1994–1997. Worked at Kyrenia. Employed Tuncer Bağışkan; worked with Dan Hofstadter and Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu.
Life and work
- c. 1994Described by Hofstadter as the new director of the Turkish Cypriot Antiquities Department, 'liberal-minded', who did not believe the ideological factor was primary in the destruction of the north's Byzantine monuments ('greed'); thanked by Hofstadter in the acknowledgements. A dealer (Ahmet) asked whether the department would object to his licence being restored replied sneeringly 'You have met Ali Kanli, the department's new director?'.
Lefkosa/Nicosia (north)Hofstadter 1994
- 1995–1997As Director of Museums and Antiquities of the TRNC, with his assistant Tuncer Bagiskan and the Ministry of Education and Culture, granted the permit for Müge Şevketoğlu's Neolithic and Chalcolithic field survey of Kyrenia district.
KyreniaŞevketoğlu 1998
Connections
3 peopleFieldwork & employment
- Granted a permit to Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu1995–1997
- Employed Tuncer Bağışkan1995–1997
Colleagues & contacts
- Worked with Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu1995–1997
- Met Dan Hofstadter
- Worked with Dan Hofstadter
Sources
- 1.Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu (1998). “Archaeological Field Survey of the Neolithic and Chalcolithic Settlement Sites in Kyrenia District, North Cyprus: Systematic Surface Collection and the Interpretation of Artefact Scatters”. PhD thesis, University of Edinburgh.
- 2.Dan Hofstadter (1994). Goldberg's Angel: An Adventure in the Antiquities Trade.