I found an article about the book publishing industry in Turkey and tried to match up the figures it listed to statistics of the Greek publishing industry. The statistics for Turkey are listed first and then the corresponding Greek statistics if any are listed after the slash. I did not match up alot of the info found in the article, since if no one replies it does not matter anyway. Since the article was written in early 2005, I assumed they got the statistics from the Frankfurt Book Fair that happened in late 2004. So I assumed the Turkish statistics were for 2003 and I listed corresponding Greek figures for that year.

Turkey
70 million with 80 per cent literacy – but only four per cent occasionally read a book

Turkey / Greece
6,000 new publications a year / 7,253
4,000 original
2,000 translations

1,400 publishing companies/ 619 active(2004)

Print run
2,000 copies

Average Price
8.50 euros(paperback)/ 14.70 Euro

1,300 book outlets / 2,000
100 genuine bookshops/ 276 pure bookstores

Annual Sales
300 million Euros / 400 million Euros(1999)


Sources
The only real Turkish source is the article The Turkish Book Market: Hoping for a Push towards Modernisation posted on a German site that deals with relations with the muslim world in January 2005. I could not even figure out if Turkey has an institution similiar to Greece's National Book Centre.

For Greek statistics there is alot more info existing on the net. There are English language sources like The Book Market in Greece(PDF) and Indisputable Gain of Confidence of the Publishing Market in Greece(PDF). There is also the large Greek language PDF Η βιλιοπαραγωγή στην Ελλάδα 2004.

Turkey is guest of honor at the Frankfurt Book Fair for 2008. A press release at the official Frankfurt Book Fair site states the following of the Turkish publishing industry:

.... "There are currently around 6,700 publishing companies and 1,250 bookshops and book sales outlets in Turkey, with annual production of around 20,000 titles, including 5,700 new publications." ...

This shows the validity of the data posted by the Quanta.de article which I previously cited.

The reason why I even bother to post this info is to show the epistemological problems of Turks escaping the well known Turkish Historical Society thesis's and Foreign Ministry fetva, ferman and kanun like pronouncements against Hellenism.