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Libraries can order copies of the listed resources for free from the Turkish Coalition of America by mailing or faxing a formal request to: Turkish Coalition of America, 1025 Connecticut Ave., NW Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20036. Fax: 202-370-1398

Reading List and Additional Resources on Turkey

  • Aksin, Sina, "Turkey from Empire to Revolutionary Republic: The Emergence of the Turkish Nation from 1789 to the Present", New York University Press, October 2006.
  • Barrett, Victoria "Desperate Hours" Documentary, 2003. [web]
  • Callaghan, Marty,"The Armenian Revolt: 1894-1920" Documentary. [info]
  • Findley, Carter Vaughn, "The Turks in World History", Oxford University Press, October 2004.
  • Finkel, Caroline, "Osman’s Dream: The Story of the Ottoman Empire 1300-1923", John Murray, 2006.
  • Goodwin, Jason, "Lords of the Horizons. A History of the Ottoman Empire", Henry Holt and Co.; 1st American edition, April 1999.
  • Gunter, Michael, "Pursuing the Just Cause of Their People:  A Study of Contemporary Armenian Terrorism,"  Greenwood Press, 1986.
  • Gurun Kamuran, "The Armenian File, Innocence Exposed", Rustem, 2001.
  • Karacakaya, Recep, "A Chronology of the Armenian Problem with Bibliography (1878-1923)," 2002, Republic of Turkey Directorate of Ottoman Archives.
  • Lewis, Bernard,"The Emergence of Modern Turkey", 3rd edition. Studies in Middle Eastern History, New York, 2002.
  • Lewy, Guenter, "The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide", Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Study, Hardcover, November 2005.
  • Lowry, Heath, "The Story Behind Ambassador Morgenthau's Story," Isis Press, 1990.
  • Mango, Andrew, "The Turks Today", Overlook Press, November 2004.
  • Mango, Andrew, "ATATURK: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey", Overlook Press; Reprint edition, August 2002.
  • McCarthy, Justin, The Armenian Rebellion at Van, University of Utah Press, 2006.
  • McCarthy, Justin, " The Ottoman Turks: An Introductory History to 1923", Longman, March 1997.
  • McCarthy, Justin, "The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire", Hodder Arnold, April 2001
  • McCarthy, Justin, "Death and Exile: The Ethnic Cleansing of Ottoman Muslims, 1821-1922". Darwin Press, Incorporated, March 1996.
  • Nalbandian, Louise, "The Armenian Revolutionary Movement", Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1963.
  • Oberling, Piere, " The Road to Bellapais" East European Monographs, October 1982.
  • Orel, Sinasi and Yuca, Sureyya , "The Talat Pasha Telegrams," Rustem and Brother, 1983.
  • Papazian, K.S., "Patriotism Perverted": A discussion of the deeds and the misdeeds of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation, Boston , 1934.
  • Pope, Hugh,"Sons of the Conquerors: The Rise of the Turkic World", Overlook Press, May 2005.
  • Reisman, Arnold "Turkey's Modernization: Refugees from Nazism and Atatürk's Vision" (Washington, DC, New Academia Pub., LLC.) [more]
  • Settle, Mary Lee, "Turkish Reflections: A Biography of a Place", Touchstone, June 1992.
  • Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw, "History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey", Volume II, Paperback, September 2005.
  • Shaw, Stanford, "From Empire to Republic:  The Turkish War of National Liberation, 1918-1923 A Documentary Study," 2000, The Turkish Historical Society (5 volumes, 2434 total pages, soft cover)
  • Shaw, Stanford J. and Ezel Kural Shaw, "The Jews of the Ottoman Empire and the Turkish Republic", Palgrave Macmillan, November 1991.
  • Ter Minassian, Anaide, "Nationalism and Socialism in the Armenian Movement," The Zoryan Institute, 1983.


Collections of Essays

  • The Turkish Republic at 75 Years.
    The Eothen Press; 1 ed. edition (November 17, 1999)
  • Turkey's New World: Changing Dynamics in Turkish Foreign Policy
    by Alan Makovsky and Sabri Sayari. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2000


Online Resources on Turkey

Free for Library

  • Journey of Faith, On the Trail of Christianity in Turkey
    Documentary film shown on PBS, produced by Shenandoah Film
  • Desperate Hours
    Documentary film shown on PBS on the role of Turkish diplomats saving Jews from the Holocaust, produced by Shenandoah Film (info: www.shenandoahfilm.com)
  • Rumi Returning
    Documentary film shown on PBS on the life and philosophy of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, produced by Heaven and Earth Creations (info: www.heavenearth.net)



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