Fikri Kulako?lu, Professor of Archaeology at Ankara University, is the director of Kültepe excavations since 26 and an expert of Central Anatolian archaeology of the Bronze Age. Cécile Michel, Assyriologist, Director of Research at the Nationl Center for Scientific Research (France) and Professor at Hamburg University, belongs, since the 9's, to the international team in charge of the publication of Kültepe tablets.
Güzel Öztürk, Research Associate and PhD candidate at the Department of Near Eastern Archaeology at Ankara University (Turkey). She is the co-director of Kültepe excavations since 214.