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Why this site exists, and how it was made

tahberer.semsera.com is Semsera's tribute to Bekircan Tahberer and the showcase of the collaboration between the two. The aim is single: to open the body of work he has given the world to everyone — free, without ads and without tracking.

Principles

  1. No products. Nothing is sold here, no ads are shown, no donations are asked for.
  2. No tracking. No cookies, analytics or fingerprinting. Instagram posts load only if you ask, and only then from Instagram.
  3. Nothing invented. The biography was compiled from the author's public CV and publication records; nothing unverifiable was written.
  4. Copyright stays with the author. No works are hosted; every record links to the author's Academia.edu archive. The introductions were written by Semsera, without long quotations.
  5. Takedown requests are honoured without question. At the request of the author or a rights holder, any content is removed within 48 hours.

Sources

  • Bekircan Tahberer — Academia.edu profile: titles, abstracts and records of 103 works (compiled October 2026).
  • The author's public CV on Academia (education, publications, teaching and awards).
  • The 2004–2005 snapshots of sandanart.com in the Wayback Machine (the Sandan Art studio, articles). The domain later changed hands, so records after 2019 are unrelated to the author.
  • The SemsLanguage publication of “We Are Learning Turkish” and its record of the author's permission.
  • Public Instagram profiles: @bekircan_tahberer, @turkishtranslator01, @kiwidatabby.

Contact

For corrections, additions, collaboration or takedown requests: kalfa@semsera.com. For professional translation work, Bekircan Tahberer can be reached through his translation page ↗.

Making of

Dependency-free static HTML/CSS/JS with a small Node build script. Typefaces: Cormorant Garamond and Alegreya Sans (SIL Open Font License, served from this host). Sandan, the staff of Asklepios, the swimming river god, the astragalos, the crown of Tyche, the triskeles, the Kiwi emblem and the map of Cilicia are original SVGs drawn for this site. Source: apps/tahberer in sems-emin/aresta-platform.

Semsera × Tahberer

The collaboration began in 2026 with the free publication of “We Are Learning Turkish” on SemsLanguage. This archive is the second step. The series name and the method belong to Bekircan Tahberer; Semsera provides only the publishing infrastructure and this site.

The We Are Learning Turkish page →

Image credits

Coin photographs come from public-domain museum collections (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Münzkabinett Berlin) and from the author's own publication. All other imagery is original drawing.

ImageDescriptionSourceLicense
Bronze of Adana — turreted Tyche on the obverse, horse with the legend ΑΔΑΝΕΩΝ on the reverse. From SNG Tahberer – Cilicia, Part 1 (the author's own collection and photograph)Academia.edu — SNG Tahberer, Cilicia Part 1
Yazarın yayınından, izinle · From the author's publication, with permission
Bekircan Tahberer
© Bekircan Tahberer
Adana (Cilicia), bronze, reign of Septimius Severus — obverseWikimedia Commons
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Public domain
Adana (Cilicia), bronze, reign of Septimius Severus — reverseWikimedia Commons
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Public domain
Tarsos, silver stater of Datames (Tarkumuwa), 4th c. BCWikimedia Commons
Onlinesammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin: 2355665
Reinhard Saczewski
Public domain
Coin of Aigeai (Yumurtalık) — centre of the Asklepios cult in CiliciaWikimedia Commons
Onlinesammlung der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin: 2373817
Reinhard Saczewski
Public domain
Kelenderis (Aydıncık) silver stater — rider dismountingWikimedia Commons
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Public domain
Soloi (Mezitli) silver stater — bunch of grapesWikimedia Commons
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Public domain