Correspondence and papers from two folders labelled 'Ismir'. Material relates to the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and Advanced Science and Technology Institute (NATO)-(ASTI) Conference on 'Active Close Binaries', 11-22 September 1989, Kuşadasi, Turkey.
For more than a decade running up to the conference, a group of astronomers at Ege University Observatory concentrated on active close binaries with particular emphasis on the behaviour of the light curves of chromospherically active systems. In 1989, they decided to share their research via an international meeting. The site selected for the meeting was Kuşadasǀ in Western Anatolia, part of Turkey that was the cradle for great developments in science during antiquity.
Correspondence in folder 1. includes letters between ZK and conference organiser, Professor Cafer İbanoğlu, Astronomy and Space Sciences Department, Ege University, Boronova, İsmir, Turkey. ZK chaired one of the scientific sessions and presented a paper titled, 'Evolved Binaries Above the Main Sequence: Photometric Effects of Oscillating Components II'.
Folder 2 relates mainly to publishing Active Close Binaries, the proceedings of the conference. This was published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division. Professor Cafer İbanoğlu edited the proceedings which included over 50 manuscripts.
Other material includes: copies of papers; abstracts; a draft programme; preface; list of tutorial lectures; list of speakers; map of area; Turkish vocabulary; Ankara University Observatory Annual Report 1988, by Osman Demircan; pages of proofs; article on Turkish culture; poster advertising the event; list of social activities; information on NATO grant to ZK; table of contents; ZK opening remarks; list of participants; ZK rough notes; and emails of participants.