'Mein Kampf' a Best Seller in Turkey

Yahoo - AP ^ | 03/24/05 | JAMES C. HELICKE

[Sonny M]

If I was teaching a college class on what led up to WWII, I would make sections of it required reading.

As long as it wasn't the whole thing.

Most neo-nazi's who are harcore can't get through that drivel.

[MplsSteve]

Does the book end with the our govt deciding that casualties are unacceptable...and then decide to nuke Ankara?

[Sonny M]

Che was a died in the wool revolutionary Marxist-Leninist.Hitler was an avowed anti-Bolshevik whose suppressed Marxists within Germany and unleashed Hell on Soviet Russia.

Hitler was opposed to the communists as a party, not to much ideologically.

Check out most of his speeches, he loved bashing capitalism (he uses capitalist and Jew as synonyms for each other at times) and he loved espousing socialism.

I'd go a step farther and say, that if it wasn't for the Jew and German references in most of his speeches, most people wouldn't know the difference between a speech by Hitler, Castro, Stalin or Che.

Weird thing, if you ever look at the old nazi platform, under economics, its pretty much mirrors the green party of today, and Hitler seemed to have some kind of hatred for landlords in real estate, he uses them as metaphors alot to describe his platform.

Hitler also did read Marxism, but his favorite philosopher was Nichze ( I spelled it wrong, I know).

[Charles Martel]

Sounds insane.

Foreword by Tom Clancy: "BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.... Best laugh I've had in years! Two thumbs up!"

[Tribune7]

Haven't read it but according to the link we overrun Ankara, the rest of the world makes us leave then Bush is impeached all the while Islamic Americans are seeing visions of horsemen.

[nw_arizona_granny]

Bump

[Katya]

I don't know...with all the German vacationers and pensioners...maybe the Turks are just trying to find cultural common ground.

[sheik yerbouty]

Maybe they have a new edition called "Mein Quran" up in Al Qanada..

[cookcounty]

Sad to say, it's pretty popular in the Arab world as well. Has been for years.

[Turk2]

No the funny thins is, the US retreats after DC is nuked. Lame story but such fiction is uncommon in Turkish literature, and there is a demand waiting to be filled. Besides, the book is really cheap ($4/copy) and all this media attention raises peoples' curiosity.