spiritual memoirs

“Flight to Freedom” is the "true story" of my struggle to free myself from the suppression I experienced as a second class citizen (a woman) of an eastern, Muslim society. Although my memoir is in some ways similar to others such as “Surprised by God -How I Leaned to Stop Worrying and Love” by Danya Ruttenberg, “Called To Question”- A "Spiritual Memoir” by Joan Chittister, “The Breath of Angels” by Stephanie Saldana, “Lipstick Jihad and Honeymoon in Tehran” by Azadeh Movaveni, “God Underneath” by Edward L. Beck and “Autobiography” by Shirin Ebadi, my memoir differs from those and others in the industry in several respects.
My memoir is the only and the first one to show the world the situation of Turkish women and their journey towards spiritual awareness and equality. In my book I reveal not just my own experiences, but also an insider’s insight into family, society, religion, education to politics and human relations in Turkish culture. Before this, no one in Turkey had written an English language spiritual memoir about a woman’s spiritual journey.
Turkey occupies a unique position geographically and as a nation in that it is not fully eastern and certainly not fully Western, but stands uneasily astride both world views. Turkey is rich in ancient civilizations and history, the product of many waves of immigrants over the centuries.
Over all those centuries of division and hatred and warfare, this is the first time, the first decade, where the possibility existed to be able to communicate instantly and worldwide to all the peoples of the world. In that communication, in that sharing of stories, lays the seeds of understanding and awareness that we are all very similar and that our hearts have the same fears and hopes.
If we want to stop killing each other and bring peace to our world we should get as much information and insight as we can to understand each other and to build grace and compassion with each other. I believe my book will allow for a greater understanding of Muslim people and erode the preconceptions and fears that arise from lack of direct experience.
By reading my book people can understand how the information given by our parents and from their parents impact us as children, setting us on a course of building strong beliefs about other countries, and we start separating ourselves from each other because of the fear planted in our subconscious when we were children.
The more separated from each other the more pain we have and the chance of having peace in the world is getting diminished more and more each day.
If you give me chance to have my book out to the world people will learn more about nearly everything about my culture and the information I give in my book can be a mirror to them on their spiritual journey as well.
My book is not just a biography but it also reflects my own perception as well as the whole country’s consciousness on religion, God, love, sex, politics, education, human relations, motherhood, and the prevailing conceptions about the nature of men and women.
I hope that I have convinced you that my book is a unique one and that it needs to be published to help women to become happy, independent and peaceful mothers, raising their children in the light of higher awareness and consciousness. I also stress in my book that our dreams can give us a target to follow on our way to personal growth.