"Mein Kampf" a bestseller in Turkey

Cheap cover prices and a rise in nationalist sentiment have made Adolf Hitler's infamous autobiography "Mein Kampf" a bestseller. Since January, the book has sold more than 50,000 copies and is number four on the best-seller list drawn up by a bookstore chain. The book was first published in Turkish in 1939, but "has always been a secret best-seller," said Oguz Tektas of Mefisto, one of several publishing houses to have re-released the book Hitler wrote while in jail in 1925. "We took it out of the closet for purely commercial reasons." His company's sole aim, he stressed, was "to make money," which they did by slashing the cover price. "Mein Kampf," published by about a dozen companies over the years, always sold at a fairly steady annual rate of about 20,000 at around US$ 15 per copy. However, the Mefisto edition costs only US% 4.50 and has sold 23,000 copies in two months. Most of the buyers are young, nationalistic Turks who are opposed to US foreign policy and to Israel's occupation of the West Bank.