Fethiye Cetin recounts the story of her grandmother's early life, when she was sent on a death march from her small Armenian village after the men were slaughtered and eventually saved by a Turkish gendarme captain who adopted her.
Presents a study of the Armenian genocide which began in the 1890s when Sultan Abdul Hamid II ordered the massacre of Armenians, and which recurred in 1915 at the hands of the Ottoman Turks, and discusses the American response to the crisis and its implications for genocides in the twenty-first century.
A collection of fourteen tales about the folk hero Nasreddin Hoca, also known as Goha, a man with a reputation for being able to answer difficult questions in a clever way.
Describes the customs and beliefs connected to some of the special occasions celebrated in Turkey, including Mohammed's birth, Shekar Bayram, and Atarurk. Includes recipes and related activities.
In a small village in Anatolia, even the poorest villager is expected to pay tribute to a tyranical Mongol ruler, but the wiseman, Nasreddin Hoca, finds a way to make an aged donkey seem most valuable.
After being forced to change to a fancy new coat to attend a party, Nasrettin Hoca tries to feed his dinner to the coat, reasoning that it was the coat that was the invited guest.
