by Michael B. Oren, a senior American - Israeli fellow at the Shalem Center in Jerusalem who lives there with his wife and three children. Published in 2007. The book is a survey of U.S. involvement in the Middle East over the past 230 years, beginning in 1776, with a...
Prepared for Publication by Baskin Oran, Iletisim Yayinlari, Istanbul, 2005 Recorded by Manuel Kirkyasaryan in 1980, at the age of 76 years. He was born in Adana in1906, died in Australia in 1987 at the age of 91. This is a different kind of a book which tells the story of...
A new book based on years of study and documents from the archives of many nations by Justin McCarthy, Esat Arslan, Cemalettin Taskiran and Omer Turan, published in 2006. Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Studies, The University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City Very few books mention the true...
Steve Jobs, by Walter Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, December 2011 Reading biographies of famous people and world leaders is always fun and educational, especially during dreary winter days. The libraries are full of them, from Attila the Hun to Stalin, from Truman to Ataturk, the greatest leader of the 20th...
This is a book about World War II, which has been presented to the world as the West’s greatest triumph, between 1939 and 1945, lasting for six years. Niall Fergusson, however, presents the view that the war was actually the result of the fifty-year struggle between rival empires, waged...
Istanbul Commerce University Publication N0. 25  - January 2008 Armenian genocide is a controversial issue and also a fabrication by many Armenians and their supporters who benefit from it according to those who have studied the events of the end of 19th and the beginning of 20th century with an...
Time magazine has added another interesting book to it series on different subjects. The World’s 100 Most Important Places is an interesting work edited by Richard Stengel but unfortunately includes only one place from Turkiye, the most historical country and the centre of the world. The places have been presented...
Published by Broadway Books, 2006 The author of the famous book, ‘’Under the Tuscon Sun,’’ has written about her travels in several countries around the Mediterranean Sea, including a cruise in a traditional wooden gulet along Turkey’s Lycian coast. The voyage begins in Andalucia in Spain, goes through Portugal, Italy,...
(Translated to Turkish from the original Armenian version by Mariam Arpi and Nairi Arek.) Peri yayinlari, Istanbul, Turkey The first time I learned about ‘’Antranik of Armenia’’ was in a story written by William Saroyan with the same title back in 1935 (1). William Saroyan, the Pulitzer price winner and...
By Sevan Nisanyan, in Turkish by Kirmizi Publishing House, May 2008, Second Printing, July 2008 The author of this book has joined the long list of writers, mostly foreign, who have chosen to attack Ataturk and the Turkish Republic that he founded rather than to make suggestions as to how to...