Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles
available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Tales from the
Expat Harem: Foreign Women in Modern Turkey is a nonfiction anthology by
32 expatriate women from seven nations and five continents about their
lives in modern Turkey, published by Seal Press in North America and
Döan Kitap in Turkey. Edited by Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton
Gökmen, two American writers based in Istanbul, it was an English
language #1 national bestseller in Turkey in January 2006. Its Turkish
edition, Türkçe Sevmek: Türkiye'de Yäayan Yabanc¿ Kad¿nlar¿n Gözüyle
Türkler, contains a foreword written by one of Turkey's foremost
novelists, the controversial Elif Shafak. In May 2008, the book and its
editors were featured on NBC's Today Show, on its annual travel segment
Where in the World is Matt Lauer. The collection includes women's true
tales which span 40 years and the entire country, reflecting both rural
and urban realities from Istanbul in the West, Van in the East, Giresun
on the Northern Black Sea Coast, the central Anatolia Cappadocian town
of Göreme, coastal locations all along the Aegean and Mediterranean
seas, to the borders with Iraq and Iran... and various towns and
villages in between.
