In the vein of the nation’s favourite poems this volume steals the limelight and top shelf space in any poetry section. This collection of international poetry features world famous poets. The poems have all been chosen by national leaders, prime-ministers and presidents. There are also personal contributions from some of these influential world leaders themselves. The book is subtitled A Book of Peace and is based on an original idea by Mehmet Basci, a Turkish Kurd who now lives in Switzerland who wanted to unite, through the love of poetry, some of the worlds most powerful leaders in a dream of peace. The foreword is written by Swiss Federal Counciller for Foreign Affairs, Micheline Calmy-Rey

A celebrity volume of the highest order featuring choices of the World’s Leaders e.g. Ariel Sharon, Tony Blair, Gerhard Schröder.

World famous Poets e.g. Jorge Luis Borges, Rudyard Kipling, Rainer Maria Rilke, William Wordsworth, Kahil Gibran and Pär Lagerkvist.

Mehmet Basci was born in 1979 in Pazarcik, a small town in the county of Kahraman Maras, in Turkish Kurdistan.

In 1992 he left for Switzerland. He played soccer at FCB (Basel), with a potentially promising professional career until a bad injury in 1996 forced him to quit. In 2000 he published a Romance novel and in 2003 a poetry book

In 2003 he started a worldwide project about prime ministers and presidents most favourite poems He is living in Basel.