In the course of surface investigations at Gedikli (Karahüyük), a village in the district of Islâhiye, during the summers of 1958 and 1963, our group engaged in research in the Islâhiye area on behalf of the Turkish Historical Society, the Directorate General of Antiquities and Museums, and the University of Istanbul, had collected several fragments of a species of pottery reddish-orange in colour, made on a slow-turning wheel and with striations showing traces of burnishing. Since we had found this same type of pottery at Tilmen Hüyük both in "Tomb M-3" and in Levels IIIg-IIIc, and had seen in the Gaziantep Museum numerous specimens of complete pots of the type under discussion which had come from Gedikli, it became inevitable tlıat while working at Tilmen Hüyük during the summer and autumn months of 1964 we should also begin an excavation at Gedikli as well. The following represents therefore the first preliminary-report of the excavations undertaken by us at Gedikli (Karahüyük).