I just realized I hadn’t had a front page entry about this disgusting development in Turkey, where the genocidal manifesto of Adolf Hitler is among the top ten best selling books: Turkey Shrugs Off Success of Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey’s government Monday played down soaring sales of Adolf Hitler’s anti-Semitic book “Mein Kampf” (“My Struggle”) and said there were no racists in the large Muslim country.

Booksellers say “Mein Kampf,” or “Kavgam” in Turkish, has featured among the top 10 bestsellers in the past two months, to the dismay of the country’s small Jewish community and of the German embassy in Ankara.

Asked to comment on the phenomenon, government spokesman Cemil Cicek said: “We cannot allow prejudice against people for belonging to a certain race.”

“We have never had such an attitude in our culture, nor in our history, and we do not have it now … It’s not possible for people to choose their races … Turkish society’s idea about this issue is clear. There is no racism in this country.”

AP’s caption writer thinks it may be simply because the book is inexpensive.

A copy of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’, is displayed by a book vendor at Istanbul’s main train station, Friday, March 18, 2005. In Turkish bookshops, ‘Mein Kampf’ is the one best seller that some booksellers are hesitant to put on the shelf next to the rest. A new paperback version of Adolf Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’, ‘Kavgam’ in Turkish, has suddenly become a top seller in Turkey, raising questions if the sales reflect growing anti-Semitism or anti-American sentiment in this Muslim country or if it’s just curiosity and a cheap read. (AP Photo/Murad Sezer)

Despite these ludicrous efforts to downplay its significance, the fact is that this is not a new phenomenon; Mein Kampf has been a constant bestseller in the Arab/Muslim world, and it’s been noted many times at LGF.