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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.

Justin McCarthy wrote a book about the occupation of Van. Armenians occupied Van for a large part of the First World War. Up to 2/3 of the Muslim population there was murdered or driven out. There were twice as many Muslims as Armenians in Van, so they had to murder over half of the Muslim population to be able to rule Van. Gives you an idea what would have happened if the ‘Wilsonian Armenia’ plan had succeeded. Armenians compromised not even 16% of the population in those areas.

If you're interested in this subject, Google for Maxime Gauin. He's written some nice articles on this subject, which are available for free on Academia. Guenter Lewy's book is also a nice one (a Jewish holocaust survivor writing on this subject).

Edit: Another American source on the Armenian issue.

>“I see that reports are being freely circulated in the United States that the Turks massacred thousands of Armenians in the Caucasus. Such reports are repeated so many times it makes my blood boil. The Near East Relief have the reports from Yarrow and our own American people which show absolutely that such Armenian reports are absolutely false. The circulation of such false reports in the United States, without refutation is an outrage and is certainly doing the Armenians more harm than good. I feel that we should discourage the Armenians in this kind of work, not only because it is wrong, but because they are injuring themselves. In addition to the reports from our own American Relief workers that were in Kars and Alexandrople, and reports from men such as Yarrow, I have reports from my own Intelligence Officer and know that the Armenian reports are not true. Is there not something that you and the Near East Relief Committee can do to stop the circulation of such false reports? I was surprised to see that Dr. McCallum sent through a report along this line from Constantinople. When I called attention to the report, it was stated that it came from the Armenians but the telegram did not state this, nor did it state that the Armenian reports were not confirmed by our own reports.”

>— US Admiral Mark Lambert Bristol, 1921

Never thought I'd find salep on amazon.

You get the idea, there are these "instant salep"s where you just put hot milk into it and get salep. They are pretty good too, you might want to try them out. What I linked is incredibly overpriced though.

I love salep too :)

Books. Plural. Many books. I can get you a bibliography of my dissertation if youd like. Cant produce it immediately because I have other priorities like taking care of my children at the moment but Wadie Wadeh is a great scholar to start with.

Edit: Misspelled his name, my bad. Its been a number of years.

https://www.amazon.com/Kurdish-National-Movement-Development-Contemporary/dp/081563093X

Another great scholar Ive referenced over the years is Andrew Mango. Just look at his topics he writes about. Give you some insight to my research. Theres also historical sources such as Turkish archives, which are very rarely translated so its slim pickings from there.

A voltage converter should work, maybe your volt converter is just cheap or bad or doesn't support the required wattage of your coffee machine? A lot of the converters I'm seeing on market supports up to 200W.

You can search for a volt converter online that has high ratings and supports high wattage. There are cheap ones ($25-40 or so) where reviews aren't so great and then there are a bit more pricey ($70-100) ones that have solid reviews. I found this https://www.amazon.com/Rockstone-Power-Voltage-Transformer-Converter/dp/B00CLYFNU0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1473095912&sr=8-1-spons&keywords=volt+converter&psc=1

Anyways, I think asking a group of engineers or more specifically electrical engineers would be better lol. They should be able to give you more relevant answers with confidence.

It's what I believe to be correct, from my own learnings via different sources.
I am not going to be able to comment on your question on the differences of Istanbul and Anatolia. I'm sure others can help you out with that question.
A book I would recommend to you, especially if you're interested in the recent state of affairs in turkey is this

As far as I know, the third and fourth books in the Ince Memed tetralogy have not been translated into English. The second one is called "They Burn the Thistles" in English and it's available in Amazon. The third and the fourth are called "Ince Memed III and IV", respectively.

As for the "Iron Earth, Copper Sky", yes, this is the second book in the "Beyond the Mountain" trilogy ("Dağın Öte Yüzü" in Turkish). The first book is called "Ortadirek" in Turkish and "The Wind from the Plain" in English. The third book is called "Ölmez Otu" in Turkish and "The Undying Grass" in English. They're both available in Amazon.

To get an impression of the different styles in turkish music i recommend these albums:
Crossing The Bridge (I also recommend you to watch the documentary appendent to this album with the the same title from the director Fatih Akin) and
Doublemoon Remixed.

it's all about perception not reality plus most decisions are made by senses not rationale. i strongly recommend to read about cognitive biases especially for youngsters who are about to begin career or graduate. this great book found a funny way to cover the basics

The idea of a Turkish-Greek federation has been floated around among political elites. For example, Ion Dragoumis, an important nationalist icon in modern Greece, at one point advocated the idea to increase the political power of the Greek minority in Anatolia.

Russian-Ottoman Borderlands: The Eastern Question Reconsidered has a chapter devoted to a few proponents of the idea.

Turkey's population 100 years ago was like 15-20 million. It imported many muslims from europe like bosniaks albanians and greeks in population exchange. Turkey also imported Lazi that settled in black sea. There were also arabs turkmen kurds greeks armenians pomaks. In the 100 years of Turkish republic and urbanization the populations mixed. Non mixed populations will mostly likely be in villages. With 20% central asian dna you can speak of turkic roots but overall its not really turkic.

https://www.amazon.com/Ethnic-Groups-Republic-Turkey-Supplement/dp/3895002291

This book speaks of 72+ ethnicities in turkey. To me Turkey is like USA where people from all over the world define themselves as american. The mysterious part in Turkey today are the alevis.

Thanks for asking. It is in English, would love for it to be translated and published in Turkish eventually, but right now only in English. It's published by Routledge, and can be bought from Amazon (paperback version is coming out this month, and kindle also available). https://www.amazon.com/Meaning-Madness-Political-Subjectivity-schizophrenia/dp/1138840823 or through Routledge's own site: https://www.routledge.com/Meaning-Madness-and-Political-Subjectivity-A-study-of-schizophrenia-and/Rahimi/p/book/9781138840829
My name is Sadeq Rahimi.

One should read the Mango or Kinross biographies but I would supplement either of those with this - Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography by Hanioglu

"It makes me so happy to write on pretty paper."

hatun kağıt/defter falan istemiş üstü kapalı. XL'da giyiyorsa:

http://www.amazon.com/3CERA%C2%AE-Fruit-Notepad-Stocking-Stuffer~/dp/B00PDHOOWU/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1418728146&sr=8-6&keywords=note+paper+gift

http://www.amazon.com/Office-Novelty-Toasty-Sticky-Notes/dp/B009NGVEL6/ref=sr_1_22?ie=UTF8&qid=1418728275&sr=8-22&keywords=note+paper+gift

http://www.amazon.com/The-Notester-Blue-Sharpener-Accessory/dp/B00JBO94XU/ref=sr_1_28?ie=UTF8&qid=1418728453&sr=8-28&keywords=note+paper+gift

http://www.amazon.com/Fred-Friends-ROLLER-Sticky-Note/dp/B00F8LA4AC/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1418728292&sr=8-10&keywords=note+paper+gift

bu da güzel alakasız: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005UP0B86?psc=1

aldığı kitabın sinopsise bak "Claiming Society for God focuses on common strategies employed by religiously orthodox (what some would call "fundamentalist") movements around the world. Rather than employing terrorism, as much of post-9/11 thinking suggests, the most prominent and successful religiously orthodox movements use a patient, under-the-radar strategy of infiltrating and subtly transforming civil society. " kitap da şu: https://www.amazon.com/Claiming-Society-God-Religious-Movements/dp/0253002389

bu heriflere ulan belki de gerçekten müslümandırlar diye benefit of the doubt veriyodum da direk adamlar dini kullanmayı sistematik olarak çalışan tüccarlar...

bu da aynı ID'de verilen sasha grey uzvu
https://www.amazon.com/Doc-Johnson-Sasha-Grey-Close-Ended/dp/B0044FQVDM?th=1

Ataturk: an intellectual biography.

Most objective book out there. Though it does not distinguish enough between Kemal Ataturk and other CUP figures such as Talat and Enver Pasha. Gazi Mustafa Kemal had them exiled after WWI, so there must have been some extreme disagreements.