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"Carefully leveled text and vibrant photographs introduce readers to a variety of Turkey's foods and mealtime cultural practices. Includes picture glossary and index"--.

Describes the holidays and festivals celebrated throughout the year in Turkey.

While buying gifts for his family to wear to the mosque on Eid a shoemaker is persuaded to get new pants for himself, but the only pair available is too long and no one seems to have time to shorten them.

Forced to leave his home in war-torn Syria, thirteen-year-old Ghalib makes an arduous journey with his family to a refugee camp in Turkey. Includes glossary.

Analyzes the 1915-1923 Armenian genocide orchestrated by Turkey.

Fatma, a grandmother in a small Turkish village, tells about her family, focusing on her grandchildren Metehan and Ayse, their education in the Muslim faith, and their observance of Ramadan.

The murder of an English governess for the royal harem causes controversy at the palace and the British embassy as the search for the killer consumes the Ottoman Empire.

"Around 1915, the Young Turks viewed Turkish Armenians as dangerous conspirators, so it endeavored to force thousands of them from their homes. They were massacred or marched to death. When all was said and done, between 600,000 and 1,500,000 Armenians died. This informative book offers a historical backdrop on the events that transpired to result in the Armenian genocide. Readers will learn about what happened during the genocide and in its aftermath, as well as get a closer look at how this period in Armenian history is viewed from a modern-day perspective"--Amazon.com.

Personal identity and national politics combine in this memoir of the author's struggle to find herself in a rapidly changing Turkey of the 1980s and '90s.

Inspired by a true story, this relates the tale of siblings Sosi, Shahen, and Mariam who survive the Armenian genocide of 1915 by escaping from Turkey alone over the mountains.