Müge Hüseyin Şevketoğlu

Müge Şevketoğlu surveyed the Neolithic and Chalcolithic sites of Kyrenia district for a doctoral thesis and has worked since 2000 at the coastal settlement of Tatlısu-Çiftlikdüzü, also called Akanthou-Arkosyko². Kiely describes her as one of the few professionally trained archaeologists from the island itself working in the north, and says she studied archaeology at Bournemouth and Bradford before going to Edinburgh as a student of Edgar Peltenburg³. Trevor Watkins also supervised her¹.

Her thesis records that she had been employed for several years in Kyrenia district by the Department of Antiquities and Museums, and that she chose the district because she knew its sites and had a work base in Kyrenia Castle, where finds from Ayios Epiktitos-Vrysi are stored¹. The survey ran in the springs and summers of 1995 and 1996, with some incidental work in 1997, under a permit from the Department's director Ali Kanlı and his assistant Tuncer Bağışkan. Finds were studied and stored in the castle, in the room below the shipwreck museum¹. The thesis is dated 1998; Kiely and Summerer give 1999 for the degree^2,3. It appeared as BAR International Series 834 in 2000².

Summerer writes that the Eastern Mediterranean University's Department of Archaeology and Art History, which existed from 1998 to 2011, was founded under her pioneering role². She found Akanthou-Arkosyko partly disturbed by farming in 1996; the site had been identified shortly before 1974 by Nicholas Stanley Price. Summerer says it has been professionally investigated since 2000 and that the results show 10th- and 9th-millennium occupation with links to Central Anatolian obsidian². Summerer adds that the Republic of Cyprus Department of Antiquities repeatedly protested against the excavation as "illegal" and that its results were banned from publication; she herself describes the site as rescued, registered and protected through its exploration².

Şevketoğlu published the excavation in 2002, 2006 and 2008, and with I. Hansen in 2015^5,6,7,8. With E. Yurtdaş she published the coastal Neolithic settlement of Klepini-Troulli in 2023⁹.