FOUNDED IN
1991

With the Vision and

to create and nurture a medium of learning founded on love and knowledge.

Motto

Evolving individual - Evolving Society.

FIRST
PUBLICATIONS

were some technical books, which was followed by our series of computer books.

PIONEER IN
COMPUTER BOOKS

our cooperation with Pearson Education goes back a long way.

PIONEER IN
PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT

1993 was the year we launched the series, which we then called “Personal Development”. Our efforts were rewarded with a rocketing sales of (150,000) copies of a single book by a Turkish professor of psychology specialized in communications. Although Sistem has not aimed at being a “best-seller” brand, such a figure in non-fiction is an all time record in the country.

In time, other distinguished Turkish social psychology specialists, psychiatrists, consultants, businessmen and women have joined our family of non-fiction authors, in addition to international ones. Thanks to all of them, we have managed to survive some economic bottlenecks that this country has had to face.

Sistem has increased the kaleidoscope of subject matters grouping them under headings such as

• Personal achievement
• Psychology
• Psychodrama
• NLP
• Parenting
• Male-female relationships
• Leadership
• Communication
• Man and the Universe
• Healthy living
• Education and others...

We enhance our publications with the cooperation of our authors by organizing lectures and seminars, which attract a large audience.

We cooperate with mainstream publishing houses as well as quite a number of independent publishers, worldwide.

Some mainstream publishers whose many titles we have translated and published are; Random House, Harper Collins, Wiley, Warner Books, Berret Koehler, Albin Michel, Le Relié Karl Blessing Verlag, Oxford University Press and McGraw Hill.
We are also more than happy to have recently published valuable works from Arbinger Institute, Inner City Books of Canada, and Puddle Dancer Press of USA.

We hope to have served our society by translating and publishing works of;
Thomas Gordon, Jacques Salomé, Og Mandino, Susan Jeffers, Bert Hellinger, Adam Blatner, Harry Alder, Gary Chapman, Anthony Wolfe, Nathaniel Branden, Marshall Ro­senberg, Michael Porter, Philip Kotler, Andrew Weil and Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
In 2005 our list has become even richer with Stephen R. Covey, the author of  mega-bestseller 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, when we published his new book
The 8th Habit, from Effectiveness to Greatness where he  shows the way to “find your voice and inspire others to find theirs”.

Our publications are available at even the smallest bookstore in a distant Turkish town.

As a gift to our readers who have been supporting us, we recently decided to broa­den our horizons, and launched a new brand name to shelter literary and popular fiction, biographies, travel books, and so on.

We named our “baby” GALATA, from the historical tower which is one of the landmarks of the age old city of Istanbul with a breathtaking overview to the Golden Horn.

To give some examples of recently published
GALATA books:

Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall (Warner Books)
First You Have to Row a Little Boat by Richard Bode (Warner Books)
A House in Sicily by Daphne Phelps (Virago Press)
Le Courage de se Souvenir by Gisèle & Jacques Antoine (Le Relié);

Einstein on the Lake by Ulrich Wolek (DTV)
Vor der Wüste by Andreas Kollender (DTV)
Shifting Sands by Steve Donahue (Berret-Koehler)
Valley of Bones by Michael Gruber (William Morrow of Harper Collins)
Tropic of Night by Michael Gruber  (William Morrow of Harper Collins)
The Turk in the Garden by Yiannis Xanthoulis (Kastaniotis Editions of Greece)

along with a literary collection of new and promising Turkish authors and quite a few international titles  in translation, soon to be published…

In 2005, we also started GALATAGENCLIK a new series for “those who have encountered troubled waters of adolescence”