Special thanks to Dr. Nick Fox and Jevgeni Shergalin from the Falconry Heritage Trust who responded to the initial enquiry into Turkish Falconry and then provided various contacts and information and to the trustees of the Falconry Heritage Trust who have provided funding for this site.
Special thanks to our friends in Türkiye. Doğan Simit, Ali Baycýn and Barlas Potukonen for kindly contributing images, poems and songs for this website and answering numerous questions.
Special thanks to Dr. Ewa Lukaszyk (author, University of Warsaw) for kind permission to include her publication ‘Mediterranean Falconry as a cross-cultural Bridge: Christian-Muslim hunting encounters’ from the ‘Birthday Beasts’ Book: Cultural Studies in Honour of Jerzy Axer’ on this website.