I bought Colloquial Turkish: The Complete Course for Beginners by Ad Backus & Jeroen Aarssen, it's quite old now, you could buy the CDs and tapes seperately, but I bought the whole pack which included the book, 2 cassettes and 2 Cds.It only cost £25 , it contains conversations and is quite helpful, although at times I found it quite confusing. Although my cousin found it very helpful and would not even look at another book!
I also have Teach Yourself Turkish by Asuman çelen Pollard & David Pollard, which has already been mentioned, and I find that book to be fantastic, it really explains things so well.

I use the one I bought in Turkey in the summer: 'Yabancılara Pratik Türkçe Dersleri a practical course in Turkish' by Müfit Yıldırımalp. It offers a neatly organized units with texts, dialogues and grammar - level from beginner to intermediate.

When I went to Ankara in February I found something for people who want to improve their reading skills - books for learning...English! It's a series of books - abridged bilingual edition of English classics (but they're also available in many other western and eastern languages). The books are pocket size and they're called 'Ingilizce öğrenenler için Türkçe tercümeli basitleştirilmiş Hikayeler.' As far as I know there are six or seven levels depending on the difficulty of the English version. I've read two so far and I love them!

Greetings,
I know I should put the books in a list that were mentioned above but I have not much time and don't feel comfortable to list books before checking them myself.

I recently come across you a useful website that lists all kinds of language sources for all languages. Somewhere I had already heard about UCLA but didnt see this page till today:

http://www.lmp.ucla.edu/index.aspx

Choose language on top and then choose material type etc.

Yesterday I bought a Turkish set which is called "Colloquial Turkish".

It has a book that contains many dialogues and has the dialogues on CD's and at the same time on casettes. There are a few good Turkish books and this is one of them. I had heard good things about this book and I wanted to see if it is really a good one. I'm considering to write a review. My first impression is positive. There is a book and 2 CD's and 2 casettes. The casettes and CD's have the same contents.

There are a only few books that are accompanied by audio audio. Most of them are commercial and cheap, useless things for touristic Turkish. But this book is not one of them. I like it. The dialogues are well build. You could remember them if you have the patience to listen them as many times as necessary. The set costed me £26 and is widely available in UK bookshops.

There is also a book and its casette with the name "kayıp çanta" (the missing briefcase). It is one of Boğaziçi Unitersitesi publications. I have ordered this one from Turkia via an online retailer. Two copies are going to cost me £20 including delivery.

Hopefully I will be able to write more on these sources.

What do you think to this book???

I haven't seen this book. Maybe others did. I have no idea about it.

The amazon.co.uk link that you mention includes both the book and the CD's. £17.15 is the cheapest UK price. Whsmith has the same set for the same price if you go and collect.

This link below was is in the starting post as well. Please check the starting post again since I updated it with more information on those two books I have mentioned recently.

http://gb.bookbutler.com/do/bookCompare%3Bjsessionid=D2F8E7A08974C306A1C07F3CF3CE5695?searchFor=0340871059&amountIn=gbp&shipTo=gb&searchIn=uk

i have just passed my 6 months of studying Turkish
in that time i hve i think bought every Turkish Grammar and verb book mentioned on this site and other web sites
In honesty, i found them without exception a poor dull and uninteresting bunch especially when compared with what is on offer say in French or Spanish
If it had not been for the grammar pages on this site and John Guise's Manisa turkish I would have given up long ago
For other beginners,the only books I found that helped were
Mardin's COLLOQULAL TURKISH AND HUGO'S TURKISH IN THREE MONTHS .Both of these are out of print .I found Hugo suited me as the explanations were logical and kept simple but the book itself was unattractive
There is a great need for a book along the lines of the BBC publications for French and Spanish