kaynak yayınları

What kaynak yayınları does

Kaynak Yayınları is a privately held Turkish publishing house founded in 1982 and headquartered in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, operating under the legal entity Görev Kitap ve Yayıncılık Tic. Ltd. Şti. The company specializes in scholarly and political works on the Turkish Revolution, Kemalist ideology, socialist theory, religious history, and enlightenment literature, and has published approximately 950 titles since its founding, including a flagship 30-volume compilation of Atatürk's complete works. The catalog is segmented across three wholly-owned sub-brands: Boyalıkuş (children's books), Düş İzi Yayınları (literature and research), and Uyum Yayınları (history and research). The Kaynak Çocuk Kitapları series, launched in September 1997, extends the publisher's progressive and secular educational content into children's literature with translated works from Iran, China, Cuba, and the Soviet Union.

The company operates a direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform (kaynakyayinlari.com) built on Dokuzsoft infrastructure and verified by etbis.eticaret.gov.tr, selling both physical books and digital PDF formats. Distribution is supplemented by WhatsApp-based ordering, a cash-on-delivery payment option, and a dealer network (Bayi Girişi) for B2B resellers. Products are priced in Turkish Lira, with individual titles ranging from approximately 5 TL to 500+ TL and premium multi-volume sets reaching up to 24,000 TL (discounted to 15,600 TL). A 35% discount promotion is prominently displayed across the catalog.

The customer base comprises three persona segments: academic researchers and historians studying Turkish political development, politically engaged readers interested in Kemalist and leftist perspectives, and families/educators seeking progressive children's literature. The business serves exclusively the domestic Turkish market, with no disclosed international distribution. The publisher maintains long-standing relationships with prominent Turkish intellectuals including Muazzez İlmiye Çığ, Doğu Perinçek, Turan Dursun, İlhan Arsel, and Hasan Yalçın, and operates with a headcount of 11-50 employees without external institutional investment or parent company ownership.

Name

kaynak yayınları

Legal name

Görev Kitap ve Yayıncılık Tic. Ltd. Şti.

Website

https://kaynakyayinlari.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1982

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kaynak Yayınları is a privately held Turkish publishing house founded in 1982, specializing in Turkish Revolution history, Kemalist scholarship, and progressive literature. The Istanbul-based company sells a 950-title catalog of physical and digital books through its own e-commerce platform to academic, political, and family audiences in Turkey.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Book Publishing

NAICS

Book Publishers (513130), Book Publishers (51313)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Business, Personal Finance & Careers Trade Publishing (MPAJAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Humanities & Arts Scholarly Publishing (EDAGAFAE), E-book Retail & Reading Platforms (Stores, Apps, Devices) (MPAJAMAA)

Keywords

• Book publishing
• Turkish history books
• Children's literature
• Academic publishing
• Digital book distribution

Headquarters

HQ city

Beyoglu

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Supply Chain, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Physical Book Sales: Traditional publishing and direct sales of physical books through the company's e-commerce website. The company has published 950 books since its founding in 1982, covering topics including Turkish Revolution history, Atatürk's works, social sciences, literature, and children's books.
2. Digital Book Sales (PDF): Sale of digital books in PDF format through the website under the 'Dijital Kitap (PDF)' category.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Kaynak Yayınları is a Turkish publishing house founded in 1982 that publishes, produces, and sells books in physical and digital (PDF) formats. Its 950-title catalog covers Turkish Revolution history, Atatürk's complete works, social sciences, socialist theory, religious studies, literature, and children's literature. The company sells primarily through its own e-commerce website, with supplementary dealer and WhatsApp ordering channels serving the Turkish domestic market.

Product overview

Kaynak Yayınları is a traditional publishing house operating as a single unified brand with multiple sub-brands. The main Kaynak Yayınları brand (established 1982) publishes scholarly and political works including the landmark 30-volume 'Atatürk\'ün Bütün Eserleri' collection, along with books on Turkish revolutionary history, socialist theory, religious history, and enlightenment. The portfolio includes three sub-brands: Boyalıkuş (children's books), Düş İzi Yayınları (literary works), and Uyum Yayınları (historical and research materials). Products are sold in multiple formats including physical books, digital books (PDF), and DVD documentaries through the company's e-commerce website.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Boyalıkuş: Children's books and literature sub-brand of Kaynak Yayınları
• Düş İzi Yayınları
• Uyum Yayınları

Products and services

• Kaynak Yayınları Main Publishing Brand Core publishing brand of Kaynak Yayınları publishing scholarly and political works on Turkish revolutionary history, Kemalist ideology, social sciences, religious history, and enlightenment literature, targeted at Turkish adult readers, academics, and politically engaged audiences.
• Kaynak Çocuk Kitapları (Kaynak Children's Books) Children's book series and imprint under Kaynak Yayınları, offering progressive, secular, patriotic, and scientifically-oriented educational content, including translated international works for young readers. Targeted at parents and educators in Turkey.
• Boyalıkuş Children's Books Sub-brand

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Yapı Kredi Yayınları: Major Turkish publisher with broad literary, cultural, and humanities lists including history and social sciences. Provides an incumbent comparison at significantly larger scale and broader audience.
• Can Yayınları: Major Turkish publisher with broad coverage of literature, humanities, social sciences, and politics. Comparable content categories to Kaynak at much larger operational scale.
• Türkiye İş Bankası Kültür Yayınları: One of Turkey's largest publishers, with deep Turkish history and humanities catalogs. Directly overlaps Kaynak on Turkish history titles at much larger institutional scale.

Direct peers

• Evrensel Basım Yayın: Leftist Turkish publisher producing titles on labor, social movements, politics, and history. Direct overlap with Kaynak's İşçi Kitaplığı (Workers' Library) and political-history categories.
• Belge Yayınları: Turkish publisher specializing in history, political theory, and social sciences with an explicitly progressive/leftist editorial line. Highly comparable to Kaynak's historical-and-political catalog orientation.
• İletişim Yayınları: One of Turkey's largest progressive publishers, founded in 1982 (the same year as Kaynak), with deep catalogs in political thought, social theory, history, and humanities. Closely comparable in ideological niche and trade-publishing model, though at substantially larger scale.
• Metis Yayınları: Istanbul-based progressive publisher with strong lists in social sciences, humanities, and world literature. Operates in the same left-leaning intellectual niche as Kaynak and competes for overlapping author and reader audiences.

Emerging players

• Agora Kitaplığı: Smaller Turkish publisher with a progressive/intellectual focus on social sciences, philosophy, and politics. Comparable ideological positioning to Kaynak at a smaller operational scale.
• Kor Kitap: Progressive Turkish publisher of humanities, social sciences, and leftist thought. Competes for overlapping readers at a smaller scale than Kaynak.
• NotaBene Yayınları: Turkish publisher with a focus on social sciences, history, and current affairs from progressive intellectual perspectives. Comparable ideological niche at smaller scale.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Number of profiles

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

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Investors

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M&A

Investments

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