Haydarpaşa Station Book Days Sales Record

Sales Record at Haydarpaşa Station Book Days:Kadıköy Organized by the Municipality of 9. Kadıköy Book Days have ended. 325 thousand people visited the Book Days. 2 million books were sold. 114 interviews and workshops were held, nearly a thousand authors signed their books.

Kadıköy The Book Days, which started on June 3, organized by the Municipality at Haydarpaşa Train Station, ended. Ended June 11 Kadıköy 325 thousand people visited the Book Days. The book journey that took place at Haydarpaşa Train Station with 2 million book sales came to an end.

Füruzan, one of the prominent figures of contemporary Turkish literature, was the Guest of Honor of this year's Book Days. 114 interviews and workshops and films were screened at the Book Days, where the Publishing Honor Award was given to Turhan Günay, the Book Supplement Editor of the Cumhuriyet newspaper, and the Suat Yalaz Prize for the Comic Book Award.

Among the Book Days are İrfan Değirmenci, Murathan Mungan, Ahmet Ümit, Haydar Ergülen, Enis Batur, Yekta Kopan, Ercan Kesal, Hüsnü Mahalli, İbrahim Kaboğlu, Fatih Orange, İhsan Eliaçık, İoanna Kuçuradi, Sevin Okyay, Özgür Mumcu, Ataol Behramoğlu, Many writers, poets, journalists, actors, scientists and philosophers such as Mert Fırat, Mine Kırıkkanat, Hasan Ali Toptaş, Türkan Şoray, Nihat Sırdar and Sunay Akın met with Istanbulites. She signed her books, interviewed her.

During the Book Days, which also hosted film screenings and interviews of the Short Film Collective, many workshops were held, especially for children's visitors to have a useful and enjoyable time. Children spent joyful hours in the workshops of Philosophy, Origami, Cartoon, Creative Writing, Detective, Story Writing, Portrait Drawing and Fairy Tale Therapy.

Entirely Kadıköy 10 thousand square meter platforms and all trains for Book Days with municipal facilities Kadıköy It was cleaned and repaired by the municipality. In Book Days, electricity, cleaning, technique, design, organization, security, communication, health, transportation, etc. including 200 Kadıköy Municipality staff worked.

The Book Days, where regular ring trips are made to Haydarpaşa Station from 3 points every day, only Kadıköyreaders from Istanbul and neighboring provinces visited.

KEMAL KILIÇDAROĞLU VISITED

Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, the leader of the Republican People's Party, also visited the Book Days, where Istanbul residents showed great interest. Book Days Kadıköy CHP Deputy Chairman Akif Hamza Çebi, CHP Deputy Gürsel Tekin, CHP Istanbul Provincial President Cemal Canpolat and CHP accompanied by Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu Kadıköy Kılıçdaroğlu, who traveled with District President Ali Narin, received information about the event. The interest of the readers to the CHP leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, who visited the signatures of the writers, was also very intense.

NUHOĞLU: PEOPLE HAVE BOOKS AND HAYDARPAŞA

Speaking of Book Days Kadıköy Mayor Aykurt Nuhoğlu said: “We brought the books together with the historical Haydarpaşa Station. 5 people visited the Book Days, which lasted 110 days last year. We did 9 days this year and 325 thousand people visited. This is a very beautiful thing. Haydarpaşa is a public space and people came here with the feeling of “this place belongs to me”. He claimed public space and books. When you do something good, it definitely finds its place and value. Because of the people who come here, we understand that we are doing something good. Despite the crowd, people had a smile on their faces. We are proud because we can provide this smile.

The whole organization of the Book Days was organized by our municipality employees. I would like to thank all our employees and everyone who participated in them for their hard work. ”