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Watch Editor interview on NBC TODAY SHOW'S

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MATT LAUER?

(top rated US morning program on network television)

 

ISTANBUL: What You Need To Know

 

 

 

Read recommendation of NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC TRAVELER

(The world's most widely read travel magazine)

"48 Hours: Istanbul" by Benay Brotman, Carolyn Galgano, and Husna Haq


Read recommendation of INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE

IHT's recommendation of top 4 books on Turkish culture by Susanne Fowler


Watch video footage of SKYTURK HABER ÖTESİ WITH SEDEF KABAŞ

clip 1  Jennifer Eaton Gökmen| clip 2  Anastasia M. Ashman|

clip 3  Katherine Belliel| clip 4 Kathleen Hamilton Gündoğdu |


Listen to an MP3 audio clip of interview on

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5 July 2008- TODAY'S ZAMAN, page 12

(Turkey's newest English language daily newspaper)

 

"‘Selling Turkey’ not easy, say ‘Expat Harem’ authors " by Pinar Vurucu


5 July 2008- TURKISH DAILY NEWS

(Turkey's #1 national English language daily newspaper)

 

"Pioneers in sight" by Kristen Stevens


28 June 2008- TURKISH DAILY NEWS

(Turkey's #1 national English language daily newspaper)

 

"Istanbul's call to global nomads" by Kristen Stevens


14 June 2008- ZAMAN, pages 1 and 4 of CUMA ERTESI weekend supplement

 

"Kültür turizminin gönül elçileri" by Gulizar Baki


23 May 2008- TURKISH DAILY NEWS, page 9

(Turkey's #1 national English language daily newspaper)

 

"Media Coverage Debunks Camel and Desert Image" by Damaris Kremida  


2 May 2008- FRESH FICTION SPOTLIGHT ON BOOKS AND AUTHOR

1 May 2008- NBC'S TODAY SHOW, Day 4 of WHERE IN THE WORLD IS MATT LAUER?

(top rated US morning program on network television with 5.4 million viewers daily)

 

Editors interviewed by Matt Lauer in ISTANBUL: What You Need to Know

 


April 2008- Lonely Planet's Istanbul City Guide, page 166

 

Virginia Maxwell recommends the Expat Harem Martini, which you can make for yourself (or your book club!) using the recipe here.


April 2008- Travel + Leisure magazine

 

Istanbul-based travel writer Saffet Emre Tonguc shares a list of his favorite writers. Among them are authors and contributors to veteran guidebooks like Lonely Planet and Dorling Kindersley, Frommers and Conde Nast’s Traveler magazine, as well as longtime Istanbul expatriate John Freely – and Expat Harem's editors Anastasia M. Ashman and Jennifer Eaton Gökmen.

 


January/February 2008- TURK OF AMERICA Magazine

(First and only Turkish and English news magazine in US)

 

Expat Harem anthology excerpt "The Dangers of Turkish Travel"  by Catherine Salter Bayar (page 32-33)

 

"Trends in Turkish Tourism: Expat Tours" by Elizabeth Gündoğdu on Expat Harem Expeditions (page 50-51)

 

      

 


The McClatchy Company syndication of Foreign Correspondence interview "Let's talk Turkey with Expat"  by Travel Editor John Bordsen

2 March 2008-  BILLINGS GAZETTE, Billings, MT (Lee Enterprises) (circ. 52,400)

8 February 2008- THE PROVINCE, Vancouver, CA (Pacific Newspaper Group) (circ. 148,300)

27 January 2008- VENTURA COUNTY STAR, Ventura, CA (Scripps Newspaper Group) 

11 January 2008- THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER, Charlotte, NC (circ. 215,000)


4 January 2008- TURKISH DAILY NEWS, Exogenaut column

(Turkey's #1 national English language daily newspaper)

 

"Expat Harem to deliver intimate view of Istanbul" by Damaris Kremida,

 

Expat Harem editors create Istanbul travel package for National Geographic Traveler, and create branded tours: Expat Harem Expeditions

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