Here are the three excavations sites:

1 - Gökçeada is the biggest Turkish island in Aegean Sea. And for the first time a detailed archaeological excavations is carried out by Associate Professor Halime Huryilmaz in Yeni Bademli Mound. The upper most level is dated to the 2600-2700 BC. There are some parallel with Troia but it is much older and the dating for the lower levels will surely provide earlier dates. The fantastic artifacts she showed us prove strong relations both with the Southern Eastern Europe and Anatolia.
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2 - İkiztepe in Black Sea cost of Turkey is not new but it is the only excavation still carried out in this area once believed having no history beyond first millennium BC. There, in small mound named İkiztepe (literal translation means twin-hills) a very interesting society emerged dating back to 4300 BC. They had a fully developed metal industry (The warehouse of Samsun's museum where all the artifacts reside is full of bronze weapons), widespread textile industry, and a very high degree of medical practices. Everything suddenly stops around 1700 BC, when less than 200 km south a fully developed Hittite Empire comes out to the scene.
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3 - Göbeklitepe is at the South Eastern part of Turkey at the north east of the town Urfa. It is not a settlement but believed to be a cult center. On top of a rocky hill it is covered by 14 m deep ground soil carried from the plains. There are many circular shaped rooms with very heavy obelisks (up to 20 tons) carved with fantastically realistic animal figures. Sometime in the past all structure were destroyed and from C-14 we know that the destruction took place in 9000 BC. Thus it is possible to think a much earlier date for its construction. And such dates will surely change the Neolithic of the region.
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