Fethullah Gülen is an extremely important figure in Turkey (currently living in exile in Pennsylvania) and understanding both him and his movement is vital to making any sort of predictions about the direction that Turkey might be headed in the next ten years. This book is a no-holds-barred interview with Mr.Gülen in which all is revealed. Who is Fethullah Gülen? What is the extent of...
Nothing is Safe. A rebellious history text that examines some of the most legendary figures and events of European history and exposes them as being completely false. Seemingly unassailable targets like Albert Einstein, William Shakespeare, Charles Darwin, Florence Nightengale, Christopher Columbus, Copernicus, Cowboys, Voltaire, Feminism, the French Revolution, and the Magna Carta ar...
Children are the book of deeds of parents, and this book never comes to an end. At the same time they are the most beautiful trust of Allah. The most difficult problem faced by parents who are anxious to feed their children’s stomach and soul, parents who want to raise them with a strong belief and pious work, is to teach their children to pray (do namaz). Some of the practice...
A cut-throat race for the worlds most valuable resource.
The English want it, the French want it, the Germans want it and they are all coming across the world to get it. Sultan Abdülhamid II knows that whatever it is, he better get to it before they do. This text is a record of a 19th century cocktail of blood and oil and the catastrophic consequences that erupted from it. In a move ...
A novel that shook Turkey to it’s core when it was written in 1967, it was immediately banned and has since been widely read and discussed, and even made into the top selling Turkish film of all time. Easily among the most significant pieces of literature written in the Turkish language.
Get your hiking boots.
At one point, the Ottoman Empire stretched from Switzerland to Yemen and from Georgia to Algeria. Haluk Dursun crosses all of that ground with a pen and a camera, taking the reader along for the ride. A photograph on nearly every page and a glossy, full-color map in every book, Dursun makes you feel the miles you are covering as you travel around to the far cor...
“An Ape Novel”, which is a parody of science-fiction, is a long story that brings together three unlikely elements; humor, science-fiction, and Sufism. Events in Vienna, with its new title XB21, in 2075, inspires us to think on humanity’s future once more.
This novella takes place in 2075 and is written by Ayşe Şasa, one of the leading screenwriters of Turkish ci...
This shocking and enlightening book reveals the hidden yet real history of Turkey. From the Gulf War to the Poised Hammer, from the Project of a Kurdish State to the sensational Susurluk case in Turkey, and from the secret organizations within the military to the many cases that have been covered up to date – this book explores them all. The author reveals the secrets behin...
Assassination has been one of the cruelest instruments of political struggle since ancient times. Recent decades have been fertile grounds for assassinations. Many famous and prestigious names – Archduke Ferdinand of Hungary, Leon Troçki, Mahatma Gandi, JF Kennedy, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Aldo Moro, Olof Palme, Yitzhak Rabin – have died by bullet, bomb or other weap...
A blend of satire, science fiction and sufism, this novel presents a veiled look at our society today as a planet. Through the lens of a futuristic planet-of-the-apes style world, we are given an ominious glimpse at what kind of people we are becoming.