Türkiye’ye gelmeden önce daha iyi hazırlık yapabilmeleri için Amerikalı Bursiyerlerimize alttaki kaynakları okumalarını tavsiye ediyoruz.

• S. Kinzer. Crescent and Star: Turkey between Two Worlds (MacMillan Press, Revised edition: 2008).
• B. Lewis. The Emergence of Modern Turkey, (Oxford University Press: 2002).
• Lord Kinross. Atatürk: A Biography of Mustafa Kemal - Father of Modern Turkey, (New York: Morrow, 1965).
• A. Mango. Atatürk: The Biography of the Founder of Modern Turkey, (Overlook Press: Revised edition 2002).
• A. Mango. The Turks Today, (Overlook Press: 2005).
• J. McCarthy & C. McCarthy. Who are the Turks, (The American Forum for Global Education, 2003).
• H. C. Metz. Turkey: A Country Study, Prepared by the Library of Congress, Federal Research Division, 5th Ed. 1996).
• N. Pope & H. Pope. Turkey Unveiled: A History of Modern Turkey, (The Overlook Press: 2011).
• G. Renda & C. M. Kortepeter. The Transformation of Turkish Culture: The Atatürk Legacy, (Kingston Press: 1986).
• S.J. Shaw & E.K. Shaw. History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey, 2 Vols, (Cambridge University Press: 1977).
• W. C. Smith. Islam in Modern History, (Princeton University Press: 1987)