BANNED BOOKS


X. For Freedom to Write and Publish
Ayşe Nur Zarakolu (1946 – 2002) had Freedom to Publish Awards of IPA and German Publishers and Booksellers Association in 1998, at the 50th year of Human Rights declaration and Frankfurt Book Fair.

List of the Books, banned and in Trial

A.    Communism and Socialism Taboo
1.    Biography of German Communist Party Leader Ernst Thaelman, by Günther Hortzschansky and Walter Wimmer, Evrensel Publishing 1994
2.    Stories on Labour Class, Anthology, Evrensel Publishing 1998
3.    Anthology of Revolutionary Songs, Marches,Elegies  and Poems, Su Publishing, 2008
4.    Collected Writings of Mahir Çayan, Su Publishing 2008
5.    György Lukacs, Thoughts of Lenin, Belge International Publishing 1979

B.    Armenian Genocide Taboo
1.    Armenians, History of a Genocide, Yves Ternon, Belge International Publishing 1993
2.    The Truth will set up us Free, George Jerjian, Belge International Publishing 2004
3.    40 Days in Musa Dagh, Franz Werfel, Belge International Publishing 1997
4.    Bastards of Istanbul, Elif Şafak, Metis Publishing 2005
5.    Homesickness, Hrachya Kochar, Nujen Publishing 1994

C.    Greek Taboo
1.    Giorgios Andreadis, Tamama, Disappeared Girl of Pontos, Belge Int. Publishing 1996
2.    Ömer Asan, The Culture of Pontos, Belge International Publishing 1996
3.    Giorgios Andreadis, Persona non Grata, Belge International Publishing 2005
4.    İlias Venezis, Number 31328, Labour Battalion, Belge International Publishing 2015
5.    Herkül Millas (ed.), Deportation of Anatolian Greeks 1919-1923, İletişim Publishing 2001

D.    Kurdish Taboo
1.    Ahmet Kahraman, Kurdish Rebellions, Evrensel Publishing 2003
2.    Wadie Jwaideh, The Kurdish Nationalist Movement, İletişim Publishing 1999
3.    Melih Pekdemir, Urgent Peace or… Abdullah Öçalan is State?, Su Publishing 2000
4.    Faysal Dağlı, Kurdish Civil War (Reportage), Belge International Publishing 1994
5.    Lissy Schmidt, Price of Freedom, Interviews from Iraq Kurdistan, Belge I. Publishing 1996
6.    Yaşar Kaya, Articals from Newspaper Özgür Gündem, Belge International Publishing 1993
7.    Haluk Gerger, Turkish Order and Kurdish Question, Belge International Publishing 1995
8.    Günay Aslan, 33 Bullets (Reportage), Pencere Publishing 1989
9.    Gülçiçek Günel Tekin, Our Language is our Idendity, Belge International Publishing 2013
10.    Soysal Ekinci, The Call (poems), Belge International Publishing 1990
11.    Mehdi Zana, Dear Leyla, Exile between the Prisons, Belge International Publishing 1995
12.    Mehdi Zana, Zelal / Rebirth (memories), Belge International Publishing 1996
13.    Human Rights Association, 1992 Report of Kurdish Region
14.    N. Mehmet Güler, KCK File, Belge International Publishing 2010
15.    A. Kadir Konuk, Freedom will come from the Mountains, Belge Int. Publishing 1995
16.    Zülküf Kışanak, Disappeared Villages (Reportages), Belge International Publishing 2004
17.    Abdullah Öçalan, Kurdish Question and Democratic Nation Solution, Ararat Publ. 2012
18.    Edgar O’Ballance, The Kurdish Revolt 1961-1970, Yöntem Publishing 1977
19.    Demir Çelik, Democratic Autonomy and Self Government,    Do Publishing, 2015
20.    Hüseyin Turhallı, Song of Freedom (Memories), Belge International Publishing 2000
21.    Hasan Bildirici, Bekaa Valley Reportage, Belge International Publishing 1993
22.    Rahmi Batur, Zagros Mountains Reportage, Belge International Publishing 1994
23.    Sadrettin Aydınlık, Freedom March (Memories), Belge International Publishing 1998
24.    Faysal Dağlı, Portraits in Fire (Reportages), Belge International Publishing 1996
25.    N. Mehmet Güler, Desitions Harder to Die (Novel), Belge International Publishing 2008
26.    Sabri Ok/S.Aydınlık, Group of Severe Winter (Memories), Belge Int. Publishing 1994
27.    Sıraç Bilgin, The Biography of Mustafa Barzani, Do Publishing 2006

E.    Official Ideology Taboo
1.    Emin Karaca, Banned Books in Turkey from Ataturk Today, Belge Int. Publishing 2011
2.    Ragıp Zarakolu, Turkish-Armenian Dialog in Civil Society, Pencere Publishing 2008
3.    Ragıp Zarakolu, Albatros, Evrensel Publishing 2012

F.    Sexual Taboos
1.    Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in Bedroom, Ayrıntı Publishing 2002
2.    Filiz Bingölçe, Women Slang Dictionary, Metis Publishing 2001
3.    Apollanaire, Adventures of a Young Don Juan, Sel Publishing 2009
4.    Dragan Babic, Last Exile, Ayrıntı Publishing 1999
5.    Chuck Palahniuk, Choke,  Ayrıntı Publishing 2013
6.    Chuck Palahniuk, Snuff,  Ayrıntı Publishing 2011
7.    Philipp Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, Ayrıntı Publishing 1999
8.    S. Reynolds /J. Press, Gender, Rebellion and Rock’ n’ Roll, Ayrıntı Publishing 2003
9.    Ben Mila, The Fairy's Pendulum, Sel Publishing 2009
10.    Collective, Correspondance d'une bourgeoise avertie , Sel Publishing 200

G.    Militarism and Police State Taboos
1.    Gazi Çağlar, Int. Hannover Tribunale for September 12th Military Coup, Belge Int. Publishing 2002
2.    Nadire Mater, The Book of Turkish Soldier Mehmed, Metis Publishing 1998
3.    A. Kadir Konuk, Young Journalist Ferhat, Anatomy of a Murder, Belge Int. Publ. 1994
4.    Kürşat İstanbullu, Forced Disappearences in Turkey, Zambon Verlag 1988
5.    Hayri Argav, Executions of September 12th Military Coup, Belge Int. Publ. 1997
6.    Erol Özkoray, What is the Use of Army?, Belge Int. Publ. 2007
7.    Sabri Uzun, The Cave, Kırmızıkedi Publishing 2014
8.    Hanefi Avcı, Yesterday State Today the Sect, Arkadaş Publishing 2010

H.    Taboos based on Religion and Beliefs
1.    Haşim Kutlu, To Discuss Alevite Idendity, Belge Int. Publ. 1997
2.    Metis Yearbook, Illallah [Nuts!], Metis publishing 2009

I.    Taboo of Politicians and Statesmen
1.    Soner Yalçın, Stolen Register of Erdoğan, Kırmızıkedi Publishing 2015
2.    Yılmaz Özdil, We had stolen together on this Way, Kırmızıkedi Publishing 2014
3.    J. Bryce / A. Toynbee, Treatment of Armenians in Ottoman Empire 1915-16, Pencere Publ. 2005.
4.    Erol Özkoray, Phenomenon of Gezi / Individualization and Democracy, Idea Politica Publ. 2013



Z. Struggle for Freedom to Publish in Exile

Legandary journalists Doğan and İnci Özgüden are in struggle for freedom to write and publish 44 years in exile with important site info turk in Brussel. They are founder of ANT Weekly and Publishing House in 1966 and were accused with 500 years in the prison sentence because of their articals and publishing against the taboos. They left Turkey after 1971. military coup and went on their struggle in exile. They had 2015 Freedom to Publish Award of Turkish Publishers Association.