Text Formatting ⇒ Why is the first paragraph not indented in this document?

[AleCes]

Wait, the example above does engender a non-intended paragraph, take a look at section 1, the paragraph starts with:

Siyasi müesseselerinin kemali bakımından

You see, my minimal example wasn't bad after all.

[Johannes_B]

Leave no man behind!

The first paragraph after a heading is never indented.

I adapted your preamble and used the blindtext package to typeset an example document.

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\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\pagestyle{fancy}
\fancyhead{}
\fancyhead[LE]{\leftmark}
\fancyhead[RO]{\rightmark}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{Language=Turkish,
Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{turkish}
\usepackage{xunicode}
\usepackage{xltxtra}
\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{paralist}
\usepackage{epigraph}

\addto\captionsturkish{\renewcommand{\chaptername}{Fasıl}}
\addto\captionsturkish{\renewcommand{\contentsname}{Fihrist}}
\renewcommand{\textflush}{flushepinormal}
\renewcommand{\sourceflush}{flushepinormal}
\setlength{\epigraphwidth}{.8\textwidth}
\raggedbottom
\uccode`\i=`\İ

\renewcommand*{\thesection}{\arabic{section}}
\renewcommand*{\thesubsubsection}{\alph{subsubsection}}

\setcounter{tocdepth}{0}
\usepackage{blindtext}

\begin{document}
\chapter{First chapter}

\epigraph{This is an epigraph}{This is the epigraph's author}

Hariç konjonktürün de tesiriyle Tek Fırka rejimi 1946'da
demokratikleşmeyi kabul ettikten sonra, cumhuriyetin müessisinin
öteden beri demokrasiyi hedeflemiş olduğunu ispatlamaya hususi
bir ehemmiyet verilmiştir.  1926-1945 seneleri arasında hemen
hemen hiç hissedilmemiş olan bu enteresan sav, ilk defa İnönü'nün
1.11.1945 tarihli TBMM açış münakaşasında dile getirilmişö ve
bilahare Kemalist fikir tarihine malolmuştur

\Blinddocument
\end{document}

What did you expect?

[AleCes]

I've just discovered indentation settings vary according to the language. For instance, I was expecting an indentation on first paragraph as in French and Serbian, but instead, Turkish, just like English doesn't want such indentation. So, my question is moot. Please, I apologize for the inconvenience I've caused you. Thank you anyway for your help.