The Yalova Agreement: historians and philologists on a common method

26–28 July 2025

At the Yalova meeting, which Hacer Karabağ Arslan coordinated, historians and philologists working on editions of Ottoman sources sought common methodological ground through fifteenth-century chronicles. The eight-point agreement took interdisciplinary work, critical editions and the original spelling of place names as its basis, and stressed that digital tools must not replace the human hand.