Diane Horsley, a British citizen who has been living in Turkey for 10 years, joined the library movement in Turkey via a library project through which she makes the children’s world more meaningful and enjoyable she has been running Ankara International Children’s Library for a month, the only children’s library with a significant number of books in English for children, where she offers a number of children’s books for preschoolers and primary school age children.

Inspired from her two-year-old son’s summer holiday experience in a British library where he used to spend much time and because of the closure of the British Council library created difficulty for her to access children’s books in English for her son, Horsley decided to set up a library with the support of her husband, who enabled her to contact the library management of the Culture and Tourism Ministry, which has given the project their full support.

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