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Al Jazeera
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Kaya Genc

In Turkey, book publishers face agonising choices to survive

Istanbul’s Arter museum hosts the Art Book Days event [Kaya Genc/Al Jazeera]

Istanbul, Turkey – Turkish publishers are increasingly struggling to release new books and face agonising choices to survive amid the country’s economic crisis, according to some of Turkey’s most prestigious publishing houses.

Turkey’s rampant inflation, which officially reached 70 percent in May, has weakened the purchasing power of Turkish bookworms.

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