Turkey

8 banned books·Ranked #19 of 76 countries

Banned books

A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility

Taner Akçam

Non-fictionHistorical fictionPoliticalRacial

Government / national · 2006

Endgame

Ahmet Altan

Literary fictionPolitical

Government / national · 2016

Kurdistan: An Interstate Colony

İsmail Beşikçi

Non-fictionPolitical fictionPoliticalRacial

Government / national · 1990

My Name Is Red

Orhan Pamuk

Literary fictionHistorical fictionPolitical

Government / national · 2005 · lifted

Touching, slyly comic, and humming with cerebral suspense—a masterful novel of "political intrigue and philosophy, romance and noir" (Vogue) and the lethal chemistry between secular doubt and Islamic fanaticism from the Nobel Prize winner. An exiled poet named Ka returns to Turkey and travels to the forlorn city of Kars. His ostensible purpose is to report on a wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden to wear their head-scarves. But Ka is also drawn by his memories of the radiant Ipek

Literary fictionPolitical fictionPoliticalReligious

Government / national · 2005 · lifted