LAICISM IS TO TREAT ALL BELIEVERS AND NON-BELIEVERS EQUALLY, AND LEAVE RELIGION IN THE PRIVATE DOMAIN
TURKEY
VIOLENCE IS ENCOURAGED, PROTECTED AND EVEN NOURISHED UNDER THE SACRED MEANS OF RELIGION
I am honored to be here as a contemporary author of modern Turkey where great leader Atatürk introduced secularism, ninty one years ago.
I feel so lucky to have grown up in Atatürk’s Turkey, and also in a family where girls, for generations, had been raised as praised individuals with rights to study, to choose their way of life, to choose their husbands with whom they stood beside with love all the way. Those women were strong and brave and they set a great example for me.
Presented by
Nermin BEZMEN
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Excellencies, Mr. Faircloth, Colleagues, and Friends,
I am Sermin Özçilingir, President of the Turkish Women’s League of America (TWLA).
We are very excited to be a part of as one of the co-sponsors of the “PEACE, WOMEN, SECURITY AND SECULARISM” program.
In my speech, I would like to relate our organization’s mission and programs with SDG-5 and SDG-16 in connection with the secular education and democratic societies and institutions.
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In commemoration of the 19th Anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325
Good Afternoon,
I am, Dr. Aysegul Durakoglu, honored to be a part of the Light Millennium’s Program on the Peace, Women, Security and Secularism to commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations Security Council Resolution. As an educator in higher education and an active musician, I would like to focus on education to empowering women to conquer their struggles in finding opportunity for an equal education; and, to touch upon the issues of gender equality in the music industry.
Presented by Ayşegül DURAKOĞLU, PhD, Pianist and Professor of Music,
Stevens Institute of Technology.
[Read more…] about EMPOWERING WOMEN THROUGH MUSIC EDUCATIONWE MUST REMAIN VIGILANT ALL OUR LIFE. AND WE HAVE TO BE VIGOROUS.
“We face every single day and in all over the world, gender base violence, gender related killings, sexual harassment, intimate partner violence… the list is long. Knowing that women’s rights are never to be taken granted and always questioned and postponed with several excuses like political, economic, religious crises. We must remain vigilent all our life. And we have to be vigorous.”
Presented by Fatma AYTAÇ, Red Pepper Association (Kırmızı Biber Derneği)
Co-Founder and UN-Representative
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Sean FAIRCLOTH, Author, “Attack of the Theocrats: How The Religious Right Harms Us All and What We Can Do About it” & Former Mayor and State Senator of Bangor, Maine, presented below Keynote Speech on Secularism.
Faircloth’s Keynote Speech on “Secularism” of the “PEACE, WOMEN, SECURITY & SECULARISM” Event, which took place at the Salvation Army Intl. Social Justice Commission in NYC on Thursday, April 11, 2019. Presented by The Light Millennium
[Read more…] about HUMAN RIGHTS FOR WOMEN AND MINORITIES AND SECULARISM IN THE INTERNATIONAL ORDERCENTENNIAL CELEBRATION FOR A TEACHER: HAYDAR GÖFER
I had a ball visiting my home country Turkey last month- mostly the schools where I had spent perhaps the happiest times of my life. What prompted the trip was the end of the centennial and the beginning of the 101st birthday celebration of one of my favorite teachers at Tarsus American College (TAC), Haydar Göfer. I had missed the beginning of the 100th year in February of last year.
by Sevgin OKTAY TAC’54
2019, İNSAN OLMA VE İNSANLIĞI GELİŞTİRME YILI OLSUN…
“Tek bir kimse geride kalmasın!” Ban ki-Moon,
– (Eski) BM Genel Sekreteri
“Bilgi, Işık’tır.”
– Damon T. Berry, “The Knowledge of the Forever Time”
2019 yılından bütün zamanlardan çok daha ümitliyim! Çünkü, İNSANLIK artık bir dönüm noktasındadır…
Ya ahmaklıklarımıza teslim olup kendimizi ve yeryüzünü topyekün infilak ettireceğiz!
Ya da…
AYŞE ALAGÖZ NEW YORK’TA “ERKEK ATLASI” ÖYKÜ KİTABINI TANITTI…
Kitap | Etkinlik | Söyleşi
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Serde zaten dünya insanı olmaya da bir istek var. Evrildim. Tüm değerlerim olmasa da, en çok aşk evrildi. Yeniden tanımlamaya başladım. Tek tanımı var mı? İlk aşk sözcükleri kimler arasında konuşuldu, derken global dünya da aşk–meşk ilişkilerine kafayı taktım.”
TANITIM:
Öykü ve oyun yazarı Ayşe Alagöz, Amerika Türk Kadınları Birliği’nin | ATKB düzenlediği kitap söyleşi ve imza gününde, “Erkek Atlası” adlı öykü kitabını tanıttı.
Etkinlik, 1 Aralık 2019 Cumartesi günü öğleden sonra, Manhattan’da, Atatürk Okulu’nunda yer aldığı, 6. Bölge’de Lillie D Blake Okulu’nun kütüphanesinde gerçekleşti. Etkinliğe, ATKB’nin “kadın” üyeleri ilgi gösterdi ve yazarı ilgiyle dinledi.
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BECOMING BILINGUAL
Part II of II– Interview | Part I
A. Becoming Bilingual
1. What was your motive to learn another language?
In early 1970’s in Turkey, learning another language was not a part of the public school system, in particular, in the elementary school and during the first five-year years. However, after elementary school, starting in the middle school, public school system offered one-foreign language option and once-a-week as 40 min. within the following three: English, French and German
I had chosen English. On the other hand, I realized that once-a-week and total 40 min. based on the memorizing vocabulary and reading The Smith Family story alone was not enough.
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