Onur Ertürk is a Professional Tour Guide, licensed from the Ministry of Culture and Tourism. He graduated from Bilkent University at Ankara from the department of Archaeology and History of Art. He studied on wide range of archaeological and art historical fields of the Ancient Near East, especially, Mesopotamia, the Aegean and Anatolia. Onur joined several archaeological excavation campaigns in southeastern parts of Turkey where are the richest and most commonly settled areas and where you can find the oldest settlements of humanity in the world.

Onur joined the following archaeological excavation campaigns:

Tilbes Höyük (Şanlıurfa - Turkey) 1998, Kinet Höyük (Antakya - Turkey) 1999-2000, Şaraga Höyük (Gaziantep - Turkey) 2002, Kazane Höyük (Şanlıurfa - Turkey) 2002

He also worked as a monitoring archaeologist in the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan Crude Oil Pipeline Project between 2002-2004. He did archaeological surveys, monitoring and identifying of the archaeological settlements and artifacts on the pipeline route from Ceyhan to Sivas area, which is about 350 kms. He discovered several archaeological structures and settlements during the construction, therefore the pipeline works on the route did not harm those sites and archaeological works were carried out to rescue the items.

 



 

 


 

Onur guides tour groups in all around Turkey, in cultural, archaeological, architectural, religious, arts, and nature tours. Speaking very fluent English and Turkish and knowledgeable on the aspects of Turkey from the past and today. He guided more than 200 groups in Turkey, traveled tens of thousands of kilometers together with his guests. Onur shares cultural, social, artistic and natural values of Turkey with his guests. Thanks to his education and background on Archaeology and Art History, he leads cultural excursions and visits from the Palaeolithic caves to Seljuk caravanserais, from Lycian cities to Roman theatres, from Byzantine architectural structures to the modern cities of Turkey . He also shares unique natural beatuies of Anatolia with his guests; from heavenly Black Sea plateaus to less known East Anatolian lakes, to Mediterranean pine forests, deep blue seas of the Aegean and so on. Onur works with different travel agencies in Turkey and he guides groups from the USA, Britain, Canada, South Africa, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and also from Turkey.

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 
 
 
     
     
     
     

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Onur Ertürk

Professional Tour Guide - Archaeologist

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