turkey

While trying to help her financially destitute family, twelve-year-old Leyla ends up on a slave ship bound for Istanbul, then in the beautiful Topkapi Palace, where she discovers that life in the sheltered world of the palace harem follows its own rigid rules and rhythms and offers her unexpected opportunities during Turkey's brief Tulip Period of the 1720's.

A biography of the author's mother concentrating on her childhood in Turkey before the Turkish government deported its Armenian population.

Reports on conditions in Turkey at the beginning of the twenty-first century, looking at the country's potential to become a world leader, and examining the factors that could keep that from happening.

Boastful Little Mouse sets out to show that he is stronger than anyone in the forest, even Elephant, and nothing that happens can change his opinion.

Despite their mother's warnings, three brothers go into the forest to play and encounter the witch-woman who eats little children.

The story of how Vahan Kenderian survived the Turkish massacre of the Armenians in 1915.

Describes the lives of corsairs Arouj and Kheir-ed-din, the red-bearded Muslim brothers known as the Barbarossas, including Arouj's battles on the North African coast and Kheir-ed-din's surprise attack on Spain's Balearic Islands.

Presents the life of an eleven-year-old girl and her family living in Nevsehir, the largest city in the Cappadocia area of Turkey, describing her home and school, daily activities, amusements, and some of the customs and celebration of her country.

Presents a historical background on the Kurds while looking at controversies surrounding the group's treatment by Iraq and Turkey and whether the Kurds should be granted an independent state, and features four personal narratives.