^{#smrgKİTABEVİ} Proceedings of the International Congress on Yemen During the Ottoman Era - 2011

The international congress on “Yemen during the Ottoman Era” was organized by the National Archives of Yemen and IRCICA under the patronage of the President of Yemen H.E. Ali Abdullah Saleh, in Sana'a, on 16-17 December 2009. The congress dwelt upon a variety of topics ranging from state policies of development and administration to cultural, economic, and social life and international relations of Yemen during the Ottoman period. In addition to presenting research results, the participants also discussed issues of perspective and methodology and underlined the importance of basing the studies on first-hand archival sources to the possible extent.

Other publications related to Yemen came out from IRCICA's different activity programs. An album of one hundred-year-old photographs of Yemen selected from IRCICA's archives and titled The Friendship Between Turkey and Yemen Throughout History was published in 2011.

This book contains 17 articles in Arabic, 3 in Turkish and 2 in English that emanated from the congress on “Yemen during the Ottoman Era” which was organizedjointlyby the National ArchivesofYemen andIRCICA in December2009.Thecongressdweltupon avarietyof topics rangingfrom statepolicies towards development and administration to cultural, economic and social life and international relations of the Yemen region during the period of Ottoman rule. In addition to presenting research results, the participants also discussed issues of perspective and methodology and underlined the importance of basing their studies on first-hand archive sources to the possible extent.