Along with Brazil and Poland, Turkey is considered one of the “golden boy” developing publishing markets in the world. The evolution of Turkish media is evident to the world and similar progress is being made in the Turkish publishing market.

The Turkish publication groups and companies offer great opportunities of producing quality content and offering fair contribution to the development of art. The Turkish market offer market-friendly and innovative opportunities to international publishers as well. Reading this article will provide you insights to the top publishing groups and companies in Turkey.

• Turk Dil Kurumu Baskanligi

Established by M. Kemal Ataturk in Ankara, It is a government organization. It makes publications about Turkish language, literature, and linguistics. All of these publications constitute a source in their subjects.

• Basbakanlik Basin-Yayin Ve Enformasyon Gen.Müd

The Directorate General of press and information was founded on June 7, 1920, under the directives of Atatürk and with the Law No 6. Its target is to promote public opinion in the country and abroad in line with the high interest of the nation.

• Seçkin Yayincilik A.S.

Based in Ankara, Seckin Publishing was founded as book retailer in 1959 in Ankara. With the first book in Turkish Law published in 1972, their company was introduced in publishing and wholesale.

• Iletisim Yayinlari

An Istanbul based publishing house Founded in 1982, Iletisim has required a leading position in the Turkish publishing scene with its more than 1.500 titles published in fiction as well as non-fiction, covering the ideological accumulation of modern Turkey.

• Destek Publishing

One of the largest Publisher in Turkey with many books ranging from novels to cartoons, Destek Publishing distinguishes itself with its swift digitalization and bestselling books. Destek Publishes more than 10 books a month.

• Timas Yayinlari

Timas Publishing Group, which consists 7 different publishing houses, is the leader of the Turkish Publishing Market with more than 2500 titles total and 300 titles per year including children, history, politics, pschology, islam, philosopy and so on.

• Tudem

Tudem was founded in 1984 as an educational publisher, but now its backlist range from picture books to young adult non-fiction, focusing on readers between 0-15. T. has offices in Izmir, Istanbul and Ankara and over 500 sales points.

·         SesleKitap

SesleKitap is the first audio book publisher in Turkey. Theres more than 3 hunderd audio books in SesleKitap website. All SesleKitap audio books are also downloadable.

• Pusula Yayincilik ve Iletisim San. Tic. Ltd.

Pusula Ltd. is an independent publishing house specializing in information technologies. Since 1995 it publishes popular computer books for end users, technical computer books, IT books, computer books for kids, multimedia encyclopedia for kids etc.