The 10th of the book fair, which was held by Üsküdar Municipality in Istanbul with the theme of ‘Reading liberates’, will be held between 25 April and 4 May under the name of Üsküdar Book Days. The fair was moved from Bağlarbaşı Congress and Culture Center to the Harem Activity Area. Traditional Book Fair, CHP’li Üsküdar Mayor Sinem Dedetaş will be organized for the first time.
Unhappy with impartiality
Many publishers who regularly participated in the fair in the past years were not recognized this year. “We cannot respond positively to your request for participation this year because of the limited area of the area to the publishers who reported the request for opening a booth by e -mail. In the face of this attitude to conservative publishers, some publishers who have been granted the right to participate in the fair decided not to participate on the grounds of ‘ideological discrimination’. Speaking to the evening, the owner of Human Publications İsmail Hakkı Akıncı, “We have contributed for years to the fair this year on the absence of sister publishing houses we decided not to participate.
They excluded us
Uğur Böcegi Yayınları Representative Hızır Ali Velioğlu, “the municipality changed the hands of the first conservative publishers was the first time,” he said. Samarkand Publishing Fair Responsible Muharrem Bayır, “Free Holy Quran and Books distributed this year this year ‘no place sent to us’ e-mail,” he said.
‘Ideological distinction is made’
Yunus Coşkun, the editor -in -chief of the 40s Club, claimed that “left -wing publishers have a booth supply to associations and foundations”.
Hayati Bayrak, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hayat Publications, said, “It is not possible to reflect our publishing house in an area of 7 square meters.”
