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The Prophet Murders

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Prophet Murders

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Something's gone seriously wrong in Istanbul - a killer is on the loose, and transvestites are being murdered, the modus operandi becoming increasingly bizarre with each death. Our protagonist - fellow transvestite, nightclub owner and glamour puss extraordinaire downs her lipstick and ups the ante in the search for the religious nut. Not an easy task with the pressures of everyday life - investigations have to be slotted in between leg and chest waxes and rotating lovers. Luckily she's the perfect investigator: she knows everyone on the scene, her maitre d' is the biggest gossip in town, her web skills are rivaled only by the most nerdy computer geek and she's very, very persistent. As the killings accelerate, our girl struggles against the odds in her pursuit - after all, everyone knows that running in stilettos and a black leather cat-suit is hell ! Can she end the slaughter without breaking a nail?

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184765150X

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9781847651501

The Serenity Murders

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Serenity Murders

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Oh, no! Burçak Veral—kickboxing transvestite, nightclub owner, Audrey Hepburn lookalike, and amateur sleuth—has finally been invited to strut her stuff on a local television show. But during her appearance, an angry viewer calls in vowing to kill off everyone close to Burçak. Later that night, the show’s host is shot dead. What did Burçak do to infuriate the mystery caller? And in a city as chaotic as Istanbul, where does a girl even begin to look? Dressed to the nines and ready to fight—or flirt—Burçak sets off on a desperate manhunt in another delicious Turkish Delight adventure.

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Penguin

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0143121227

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9780143121220

The Kiss Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Kiss Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Late one night, our glamour-puss nightclub manager receives a visit from Buse. For many years, Buse has kept letters and photos of a compromising nature, from a former relationship with a powerful lover. But her apartment has been ransacked and Buse worries about the consequences. Being an obliging sort, our detective agrees to help out, but what initially appears to be a personal favour turns out to have repercussions that run much deeper. When the web of intrigue reveals that an arch-conservative politician and maybe even the Mafia are involved, it's time for our private eye to send out an urgent SOS via the underground Istanbul grapevine.

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Profile Books

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1847651682

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9781847651686

The Gigolo Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Gigolo Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Istanbul?s most fabulously flamboyant sleuth is back in her second hilarious adventure With its exotic Istanbul setting and racy peeks into the city?s nightlife, The Kiss Murder left readers eager for more of Mehmet Murat Somer?s charmingly original heroine. Software programmer by day and drag-queen club owner by night, our girl is back again, just jilted and feeling so blue she?s violet?until she meets the hunky, married lawyer, Haluk Perkedem. When their conversation is interrupted by a phone call delivering news that his brother-in-law has been arrested for the murder of a notorious gigolo, she decides to put her sleuthing instincts and Thai kickboxing skills to work unraveling the crime. Filled with witty banter and ominous intrigue, mystery fans of all persuasions will find The Gigolo Murder this season?s hottest read.

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Penguin

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1101145048

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9781101145043

The Gigolo Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Gigolo Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Devastated by the end of her relationship, our heroine swaps her catsuit for pyjamas and hides away from the world. But her friends from the nightclub refuse to let her waste away in self-pity and drag her out to make up the numbers for a party. Only full make-up will suffice, and there's serious grooming to be done before our girl's up to the challenge - her state of misery has left her so thin that even her favourite Audrey Hepburn number doesn't cling the way it should. At the soirée, she becomes entranced with a powerful married man, but it's unlikely their paths will cross again. Until a body is found in the street, stabbed to death - the victim, a gigolo, has connections to the object of her affection. And it seems that the gigolo lifestyle can leave one, ahem, exposed to hidden dangers. Our girl valiantly agrees to take on the case - any meetings with her beloved are an incidental added bonus.

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Profile Books

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1847652573

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9781847652577

Return to Point Zero

The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations, and States

By: Murat Somer

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Return to Point Zero

The Turkish-Kurdish Question and How Politics and Ideas (Re)Make Empires, Nations, and States

By: Murat Somer

How did the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict arise? Why have Turks and Kurds failed for so long to solve it? How can they solve it today? How can social scientists better analyze this and other protracted conflicts and propose better prescriptions for sustainable peace? Return to Point Zero develops a novel framework for analyzing the historical-structural and contemporary causes of ethnic-national conflicts, highlighting an understudied dimension: politics. Murat Somer argues that intramajority group politics rather than majority-minority differences better explains ethnic-national conflicts. Hence, the political-ideological divisions among Turks are the key to understanding the Turkish-Kurdish Conflict; though it was nationalism that produced the Kurdish Question during late-Ottoman imperial modernization, political elite decisions by the Turks created the Kurdish Conflict during the postimperial nation-state building. Today, ideational rigidities reinforce the conflict. Analyzing this conflict from "premodern" times to today, Somer emphasizes two distinct periods: the formative era of 1918–1926 and the post-2011 reformative period. Somer argues that during the formative era, political elites inadequately addressed three fundamental dilemmas of security, identity, and cooperation and includes a discussion of how the legacy of those political elite decisions impacted and framed peace attempts that have failed in the 1990s and 2010s. Return to Point Zero develops new concepts to analyze conflicts and concrete conflict-resolution proposals.

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State University of New York Press

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1438486731

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9781438486734

The Serenity Murders

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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0143121227

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The Kiss Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Gigolo Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Gigolo Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

A follow-up to The Kiss Murder finds the recently jilted drag-queen club owner meeting a hunky married lawyer and putting her sleuthing skills to the test when the lawyer's brother-in-law is arrested for the murder of a notorious gigolo. Original.

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Penguin

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0143116290

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9780143116295

The Emergence of Modern Istanbul

Transformation and Modernisation of a City

By: Murat Gül

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The Emergence of Modern Istanbul

Transformation and Modernisation of a City

By: Murat Gül

In its transition from 18th century capital of the Ottoman Empire to economic powerhouse of the Turkish Republic, the city of Istanbul has been transformed beyond recognition. After the establishment of the Republic, Turkey increasingly turned to the West for ideas about how to create, shape and direct the development of a modern culture. This desire was felt most strongly in Istanbul, Turkey's most populous city. Its status as the capital of the Ottoman Empire, and later the economic hub of Turkey, made Istanbul a forum for the different regimes to display their political, ideological and social policies in the context of the built environment. Some modernisation policies never came to fruition - such as the unsuccessful late nineteenth century attempt by young Ottoman bureaucrats to initiate planning reforms at a time when the Empire was on the verge of collapse. The new Turkish Republic at first neglected the old Ottoman capital, and later attempted to make it conform to its secular political ideology. After World War II, Istanbul entered a new era in modernisation, with the Democratic Party government conducting a large scale re-design of Istanbul's urban form in order to show Turkey as a major political and economic force in post-war Europe and the Middle East. The scale of this modernisation process mirrored the spectacular transformation of Paris a century before: thousands of buildings were demolished, boulevards were carved out within the old city, and whole new residential neighbourhoods were created. In telling the story of this dramatic transformation, Murat Gül investigates and traces the impact of these changing policies on the very fabric of the city itself - in its streets, buildings and landscapes - and in the process provides new insights into the history of Turkey.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857712373

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9780857712370

Political Stability, Democracy and Agenda Dynamics in Turkey

By: Alper T. Bulut,T. Murat Yildirim

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Political Stability, Democracy and Agenda Dynamics in Turkey

By: Alper T. Bulut,T. Murat Yildirim

This book examines the determinants and consequences of policy responsiveness and change, and how policy issues get onto the media and legislative agenda in a transitional democracy. It provides a detailed and attention based theory of Turkish Politics, and develops and introduces comprehensive content-analytics datasets of legislative activities and media coverage that span over several decades.

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Springer Nature

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3030274586

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9783030274580

Intellectual Property Law in Turkey

By: Ergun Özsunay,Murat R. Özsunay

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Intellectual Property Law in Turkey

By: Ergun Özsunay,Murat R. Özsunay

Derived from the renowned multi-volume International Encyclopaedia of Laws, this monograph provides a survey and analysis of the rules concerning intellectual property rights in Turkey. It covers every type of intellectual property right in depth – copyright and neighbouring rights, patents, utility models, trademarks, trade names, industrial designs, plant variety protection, chip protection, trade secrets, and confidential information. Particular attention is paid throughout to recent developments and trends. The analysis approaches each right in terms of its sources in law and in legislation, and proceeds to such legal issues as subject matter of protection, conditions of protection, ownership, transfer of rights, licences, scope of exclusive rights, limitations, exemptions, duration of protection, infringement, available remedies, and overlapping with other intellectual property rights. The book provides a clear overview of intellectual property legislation and policy, and at the same time offers practical guidance on which sound preliminary decisions may be based. Lawyers representing parties with interests in Turkey will welcome this very useful guide, and academics and researchers will appreciate its value in the study of comparative intellectual property law.

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Kluwer Law International B.V.

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9403529970

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9789403529974

The Kiss Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Kiss Murder

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

Late one night, our glamour-puss nightclub manager receives a visit from Buse. For many years, Buse has kept letters and photos of a compromising nature, from a former relationship with a powerful lover. But her apartment has been ransacked and Buse worries about the consequences.Being an obliging sort, our detective agrees to help out, but what initially appears to be a personal favour turns out to have repercussions that run much deeper. When the web of intrigue reveals that an arch-conservative politician and maybe even the Mafia are involved, it's time for our private eye to send out an urgent SOS via the underground Istanbul grapevine.

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Profile Books

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1846686938

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9781846686931

The Gigolo Murder

A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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A HOP-CIKI-YAYA Thriller

By: Mehmet Murat Somer

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The Prophet Murders

The Prophet Murders

The Serenity Murders

The Serenity Murders

The Kiss Murder

The Kiss Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Gigolo Murder

Return to Point Zero

Return to Point Zero

The Serenity Murders

The Serenity Murders

The Kiss Murder

The Kiss Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Emergence of Modern Istanbul

The Emergence of Modern Istanbul

Political Stability, Democracy and Agenda Dynamics in Turkey

Political Stability, Democracy and Agenda Dynamics in Turkey

Intellectual Property Law in Turkey

Intellectual Property Law in Turkey

The Kiss Murder

The Kiss Murder

The Gigolo Murder

The Gigolo Murder

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