Reddit mentions of Elementary Turkish (Dover Language Guides)

For writing, a basic grammar book might help. I like this one, Elementary Turkish by Lewis Thomas, because it's cheap and covers all the essentials parts of the language. It unfortunately uses some dated words--it never says "kez" for example, only "kere" and "defa", but more problematically it doesn't use "new" words like oğrenci and okul and instead uses the "old" words like talebe and mektep. Those are mostly minor and it's the best value for money. When I lived in Istanbul, my roommate was "Turkstralian" (who spoke only Turkish at home until about age 12) and I ended up leaving my copy of Lewis's in the bathroom because we both found that that was a useful time to flip through it. She loved it, and found it really really useful.

As for websites, if you like reading poems, people on here can recommend a boat load. If you like reading stories, you can try those out too (there are plenty of Nasrettin Hoca stories which are always fun to read). You could just google "fikralar". More formally, you could read Turkish newspapers (I've found they vary in how hard they are to read so maybe start on like Posta and work your way up to Cumhurriyet). There's also Zaytung, which is like the Turkish version of the Onion, but like any good satire of the news, the vocabulary is often even more formal than the actual news. Still, Zaytung is at least consistently funny, but it might not be the best place to start.

Edit: Also, you know that old saying "dil dile değmeden dil öğrenilmez", right? Find some pretty young pen pal of whatever gender and orientation you prefer. I guarantee you they will find your mistakes "cute". That was my experience at least. Pretty girls were more than happy to correct any emails I wrote to them.

I bought this book to supplement my Turkish class. It goes more into grammar, which I like and has little excercises in each chapter. Plus it was WAY cheaper than the required text books.

Is that book an update of this book?

Might want to check out Pimsleur Turkish.

And branch out to other language books and tapes.

Pimsleur has a digital version of their program, so, if you know where to look, you can find it from other sources online.