Cover and Editorial

Dear Readers, In this issue, our journey through time will begin in the central Aegean region prior to Bronze age and will continue to Antakya to trace the footsteps of a Viking prince in the army of the Crusaders. While taking a break at the Erimtan Archaeology and Art Museum we can also get the chance to see a period from the Ottoman history in a different language and perspective. A satisfactory journey into literature, linguistics and translation, is awaiting its readers in this issue. I would like to take the opportunity to thank all the authors, referees, my assistant editor, the members of the Editorial Board and the technical team that have made this possible. I would also like to share some of the pleasing technical developments with our readers and authors. With this issue, our journal has started giving a DOI number. This is a development that will increase the access to our authors to a great extent. In addition, the articles that are given a DOI number and are still in preview waiting to be published, though their review process is complete, can now be cited as printed material. I would particularly like to thank Tolga ？AKMAK, my assistant editor, who with his qualified and selfless efforts always supported the digitalization process of our journal and contributed a lot in switching to the DOI system. Establishment of the system of field editorship is another technical development that begins with this issue. Field editorship speeds up the pre-assessment process and guarantees the article to be sent to a competent referee. I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all the field editors who accepted to support us