This week we will share with you some of the books of Sefer E. Berzeg, one of the contemporary North Caucasian writers. Sefer E. Berzeg, one of the prominent public figures and writers of the North Caucasus emigration in Turkey, was born in the Kavak province of Samsun in 1943. He belongs to the Berzeg clan of the Oubykhs. After graduating from Samsun 19 Mayıs High School, he graduated from Ankara University Faculty of Law. He was the chairman of Samsun Caucasian Culture Association between the years 1972-1988. From the 1960s onwards, his articles, poems and researches about the Caucasus have been published in various publications. He published a periodical entitled "Caucasus Truth" between 1990-1993. The main works of Sefer E. Berzeg published in the Turkish language are as follows;
- Longing for the Caucasus (1966)
- Homeland Idea - Selections from Adyghe Poetry (1967)
- Adygea - History of the Circassian Alphabet (1969)
- Documents from the history of Caucasus in Immigration(3 Books) (1985 - 1989)
- Circassian Immigrants in the Turkish War of Independence (1990)
- Dictionary of Literati and Writers in the Caucasian Diaspora (1995)
- Caucasian and Circassians Bibliography (1996)
- Circassians - Deported Owners of Sochi - Wubykh (1998)
- Republic of the North Caucasus (3 volumes) (2003 - 2006)
- From the Caucasus and Diaspora Publishing Life (2008)
- Seyin Time (A Caucasian Poet Born in Exile) (2010)
- Pshemakho Kotse (Kosok) Life and Works in Exile (2011)
- Talks on the Caucasus and the Diaspora (2011)
- Letters from Abkhaz Writer Omar Beygua to an Oubykh (2011)
- Oubykh – Circassians, people of Sochi ( 2014)
Six of the above works are now available in our e-reading room;