Les Volcans Actifs de Turquie: Guide géologique et itinéraires d'excursions. Réédition océrisée 2026 du Mémoire N° 2 de LAVE de 1994

LAVE (L'Association Volcanologique Européenne) is a non-profit scientific french association ruled under the 1901-law. It is based near Paris. In 1994, it counted around 700 members, either professional geologists or amateur volcano-lovers, most of them french, and many followers abroad. Very kindly, it accepted a manuscript of my own to be published as its Memoir No. 2, edited unter the title « Les volcans actifs de Turquie ; guide géologique et itinéraires d'excursions ». At that time, these volcanoes (still presently dormant) had already been studied by pioneer geologists of the Turkish universities and by the national Geological Survey of Turkey, the Maden Tetkik ve Arama Enstitüsü (M.T.A.). My Memoir of LAVE thus benefited from those various publications, supplemented by my experience of BRGM exploration geologist on the field. An updating of that Memoir is currently under progress. It will be printed by LAVE as its Memoir N° 15 by the end of 2026 (with a completely new text). Why an updating, 32 years later ? First of all, because as soon as 1992, the scientific knowledge on the active volcanoes of Turkey litteraly exploded. This huge progress resulted in particular from an intense cooperation between the Geological Department of Hacettepe University in Ankara and the french laboratory of Volcanology of the Clermont-Ferrand University. Moreover, other researchers carried out intensive field and laboratory work as well. The Geopark label was given by UNESCO to a first volcanic district, the KULA-SALIHLI area north of Izmir. A second district, the NEMRUT and SÜPHAN Daği area north of Lake Van, is in good way to get this famous international reward as well.Last but not least, every volcano lover will be asthonished and deeply disappointed to learn that the reknown british archaeologist James Mellaart, who had discovered the famous neolithic city of Çatal Höyük near Cappadocia and its extraordinary 7000 BCE fresco of a local volcanic eruption, revealed to be (at the end of his life) a fake maker and a forger. A geological statement is thus needed, in the hope to distinguish the truth.