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Zu Hause in Almanya
Campus Verlag 2008; US$ 16.30Hauptbeschreibung Was bedeutet Integration? Warum haben viele junge Türken so schlechte Chancen in Schule und Ausbildung? In welchen historischen Ereignissen gründen moderne Vorurteile und Missverständnisse? Wird die Türkei ein Teil der EU werden? Und wie wird deutsch-türkisches Zusammenleben in Zukunft aussehen? Aysegül Acevit wurde in der Türkei... more...
The Settlement Issue in Turkey and the Kurds
BRILL 2007; US$ 175.00In seeking to understand village evacuation in the Kurdistan region of Turkey in the 1980s and 1990s, this book focuses on the spatial aspects of the armed conflict. It tries to explain how settlement and resettlement policies and practices in Turkey have been part of a larger project of political and cultural engineering, based on a revision of a... more...
Turkey Society & Culture Complete Report
World Trade Press 2010; US$ 28.50Need to know it all? Our all-inclusive culture report for Turkey will get up to speed on all aspects of culture in Turkey, including lifecycle, religion, women, superstitions & folklore, sports, holidays & festivals, and etiquette. more...
Nomads in Archaeology
Cambridge University Press 1991; US$ 42.00This book addresses the problem of how to study mobile peoples using archaeological techniques. more...
The Palgrave Atlas of Byzantine History
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 30.00The dominant Mediterranean power in the fifth and sixth centuries, by the time of its demise at the hands of the Ottomans in 1453 the Byzantine empire was a shadow of its former self restricted essentially to the city of Constantinople, modern Istanbul. Surrounded by foes who posed a constant threat to its very existence, it survived because of its... more...
Keramik und Kleinfunde aus Diokaisareia
De Gruyter 2012; US$ 140.00This volumepresents the results of the ceramic survey in the Roman town of Diokaisareia in Rugged Cilicia (southern Turkey). At the end of the Hellenistic/beginning of the Roman period a new city was founded around the monumental temple of Zeus Olbios which had been the centre of the Olbian temple state in Hellenistic times. Numerous official buildings... more...
Portrait of a Turkish Family
Eland Publishing 2011; US$ 14.57Irfan Orga was born into a prosperous family in the twilight of the Ottoman Empire. His mother was a beauty, married at thirteen, who lived in the seclusion of a harem, as befitted a Turkish woman of her class. His grandmother was an eccentric autocrat, determined at all costs to maintain her traditional habits. But the First World War changed everything.... more...
Fragments of Culture
I.B.Tauris 2013; US$ 29.50Writing from within the cultural landscape of modern Turkey, 'Fragments of Culture' presents exciting new writing on the everyday, providing a corrective to the often skewed perceptions of Turkish culture engendered by conventional western critiques. From adjustments to religious identity as the Islamic veil becomes marketed as a fashion item to the... more...
Turkey's Kurds
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 49.95The Kurdish Worker's Party (PKK) is examined here in this text on Kurdish nationalism. Incorporating recent field-based research results and newly translated material on Abdullah Ocalan, the PKK's long-time leader; it explores the nature and the organizational working of the party, from its growth in the late 1970s to its recent shrinkage. A variety... more...
East Encounters West
Oxford University Press 1987; US$ 124.99In 1720 an Ottoman ambassador arrived in France to observe Western civilization, and report on how it could be applied in the Ottoman Empire. Based on his accounts, this book studies the impact of the West on the Empire, and of this Ottoman embassy on the two societies. more...









