Ahmet Almaz is a Turkish

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, and

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writer. Almaz was born in

Anamur Anamur is a municipality and district of Mersin Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,430 km2, and its population is 66,846 (2022). It is the westernmost district of that province, bordering on Antalya Province. Anamur contains Anatolia's southernm ...

. He attended school in

Konya Konya is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

Ceyhan Ceyhan () is a municipality and district of Adana Province, Turkey. Its area is 1,426 km2, and its population is 158,922 (2022). It is the most populous district of the province, outside the city of Adana. Ceyhan is the transportation hub for ...

Karaman Karaman is a city in south central Turkey, located in Central Anatolia, north of the Taurus Mountains, about south of Konya. It is the seat of Karaman Province and Karaman District.university A university () is an educational institution, institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several Discipline (academia), academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly ...

in 1993, publishing his first work, The Birth of Stars (prepared with Dr. Ahmet Gül), in 1997 through Gonca Publishing. In 2002 Almaz carried out research for the Foreign Affairs department of the newly formed

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. The same year he published The Duties of the Children, or Golden Advices to the Children, through Birey Publishing. Presently Almaz works for the

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, where he writes about the history of trade. He also contributes weekly to the Anayurt

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, and has a column in the Turkish daily ''

Bugün ''Bugün'' () was a Turkish daily newspaper. It was established in 2005. Columnists and journalists working for it have included Cengiz Çandar, Ahmet Almaz, Toktamış Ateş and Kamil Maman. ''Bugün'' was founded in January 2003 as ''Dünde ...

'' newspaper. Almaz's other works include: *''A Mysterious Page of the History/Converts and the reality of the convertsi'' Kültür Publishing and Distribution, İstanbul 2002 *''The History of Karahans'' with Assistant Professor Hacı Yakup Anat’, Oku Publishing, İstanbul, 2003 *''The Memories of the Great Veteran / The Memories of Atatürk'', Oku Publishing, İstanbul, 2003. (T.C: Recommended by Interior Ministry of Republic of Turkey.) 5. Edition, May 2008 Dinazor Publishing. (15.000 Copy) He has translated a number of novels by Corci Zeydan: *''The Beauty of Fergana'', Bilge Publishing, İstanbul, 2004 *''Sultan Abbase'', Bilge Publishing, İstanbul, 2004 *''17 Ramadan Assassination'', Bilge Publishing, İstanbul, 2004 *''How was Fatih Sultan Mehmet Killed?'' With documents that hidden in the State Archives of Venice 1-3. Edition Ocak-Şubat 2007 Nokta Kitap (25.000 Copy) *''The History of Jews'' – (with the supplement of Prof. Dr. İlber Ortayli’s Modernization of Ottomans and Converts) (with Pelin Batu) 1-3. Edition April – September 2007, Nokta Kitap *''How was Prophet Muhammed poisoned?'' - June 2007, Nokta Kitap *''The Book that Atatürk read in 3 days - Is it possible to reject God?'' - Yakamoz Publishing, May 2008 *''The Turkish Children of Torah'' (With the supplement of Prof. Dr. İlber Ortayli’s Otoman Jews), Yakamoz Publishing, June 2008 First Edition 25.000 Copy. (Total Ş 40.000 Copy) 8-Shekhina Postiga Publishing 2010 *''Turks and Islam'' – with Prof. Dr. İlber Ortayli, Prof. Dr. Nevzat Yalçıntaş and Prof. Dr. Mümtazör Türköne. Yakamoz Publishing October 2008. He has also collaborated with Prof. Dr. Nevzat Yalçıntaş on the following works: *''Iraq Adventure of America'', Kutup Yıldızı Publishing, İstanbul 2005. 2. Edition Yakamoz Publishing, 2008 *''European Union and Cyprus'', Kutup Yıldızı Publishing, İstanbul 2005, European Union and Turkey/ Nokta Kitap, 2006, 2. Edition *''Ascended Crescent on Europe'', Pegasus Publishing, 2006 *''Turkish Union/Resurrection Again'', Nokta Kitap, 2007

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