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Open Letter to: H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President

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OPEN LETTER: A Sincere Request to Reinstatement of the “Istanbul Convention”

Date: 25 April 2021

To: H.E. Mr. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, President of
Republic of Turkey
Ankara

Dear H.E. Mr. President:
"İstanbul Convention", urgent reinstatement request
References: Istanbul Convention (11 May 2011; Council of Europe Convention CECT Treaty No. 210, put into force on 1 August 2014); UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goal #5; Gender Equality (September 2015) and Universal Declaration of Human Rights (signed by Turkey in 1949); and Turkey as the founding member of the United Nations, UN Charter (1945).

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Şimdi(!) ERMENİ SORUNUNDA SEFERBERLİK ZAMANI

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Dr. Ferruh Demirmen
Yazan: Dr. Ferruh DEMİRMEN
[25 Eylül 2020] Haziran ayı ortalarında Cumhurbaşkanlığı Yüksek İstişare Kurulu Toplantısı’nda Ermeni sorununa ilişik bir toplantı yapıldı. Yaklaşık 5 saat süren toplantıda ne gibi kararlar alındığına dek bir açıklama olmadı. Bu haberden sonra hükümetin Ermeni sorununda ne gibi bir adımlar atacağı bilinmiyor; ancak vakit geçirmeden yapılacak çok şey var.
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CUMHURİYETE DOĞRU (TOWARDS REPUBLIC) Celebrated in NYC

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(Left to right) Steve Serdar Öney, Sermin Özçilingir, Irem Ünal, Dr. Ayşe Goloğlu Soyer, Bircan Ünver and Doğan Güneş
(Left to right) Steve Serdar Öney, Sermin Özçilingir, Irem Ünal, Dr. Ayşe G. Soyer, Bircan Ünver and Doğan Güneş, NYC. Oct. 29, 2019
A summary on The Light Millennium’s “Milli Mücadele/Cumhuriyete Doğru” October 29th Celebration event:
On October 29th, 2019, The Light Millennium, joined by the American-Turkish Women’s Association and the American Association of Ataturkist Thought and Patriotism, celebrated the 96th anniversary of the Turkish Republic with its “Milli Mücadele / Cumhuriyete Doğru” event at the Salvation Army International Social Justice Committee in New York City.
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“THE PEOPLE WHO ESTABLISHED THE REPUBLIC OF TURKEY ARE THE TURKISH PEOPLE”

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ATAA President Gokhsn Özalp
ATAA President Gokhsn Özalp
“The people who established the Republic of Turkey are the Turkish people.” In this description Turkish does not contain any reference to an ethnicity but references a group of people (free from any ethnicity or religion) who had fought and worked together to establish the Republic of Turkey. “
[Interview 2 of 2 ] TurkishLibrary.Us proudly presents an exclusive interview with the President, Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), GÖKHAN ÖZALP on the ATAA’s 40th Anniversary Celebration along with the 100th Anniversary of the start of Turkish War of Independence and Turkish Revolution through a long-day Conference in Arlington, DC on October 5, 2019.
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ATAA PRESIDENT GÖKHAN ÖZALP: “NOW THE CHILDREN AND THE SECOND GENERATION OF THIS THIRD WAVE IS OUR TARGET.”

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ATAA's 40th Anniversary Conference
ATAA’s 40th Anniversary Conferenc
TurkishLibrary.Us proudly presents an exclusive interview with the President, Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), GÖKHAN ÖZALP on the ATAA’s 40th Anniversary Celebration along with the 100th Anniversary of the start of Turkish War of Independence and Turkish Revolution through a long-day Conference in Arlington, DC on October 5, 2019.
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BİNLERCE KADIN NEW YORK SOKAKLARINI DOLDURDU…

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NEW YORK’TA KADIN YÜRÜŞÜ’NÜN 3. GERÇEKLEŞTİ…
19 Ocak 2019 Cumartesi Günü Kadınlar Washingtion DC ve New York City de yürüdüler. New York City de Women’s March Alliance tarafından düzenlenen Kadın Yürüyüşü, 11:00 de 72.Cadde ve Central Park West’ten başladı ve 44.Cadde ve 6.Avenue da saat 13:00 de sona erdi.
Women’s March – Kadın Marşı –  19 Ocak 2019
Yazı ve Fotoğraflar: Fatma AYTAÇ, Kırmızı Biber Derneği – Kurucu Üyesi ve Derneğin
Birleşmiş Milletler/ECOSOC’a Temsilcisi
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TOWARDS PEOPLE-CENTERED MULTILATERAL COOPERATION IN A SPIRIT OF GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP

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67th Annual UN.DPI/NGO Conference
United Nations Head Quarters New York | 22-23 August 2018
Highlights from the: Opening Plenary Session, Round Tables & Open Forum

 

Sevgin OKTAY, The Light Millennium
NGO Representative to the United Nations Department of Public Information
“Just 42 people own half the wealth of the world” …
“Civil society is bigger than any government.”
There are amazing things brewing at the United Nations, in which several The Light Millennium NGO representatives are privileged to participate.
And all this was aimed at “We the Peoples… Together Finding Global Solutions for Global Problems” under the commitment to redouble UN.DPI/NGO efforts “to establish people-centered multilateral cooperation in a spirit of global citizenship.” Accordingly, we the NGOs called upon states, corporations, institutions, and other collective and individual stakeholders to join our efforts. By so doing, together we will further the 2030 Agenda” for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and “ensure that no one is left behind.”

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DOES FREEDOM OF THE PRESS GIVE EDITORS AND AUTHORS THE LIBERTY TO MANIPULATE?

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Court Verdicts and Documented Facts?
By Yurdagül ATUN, Şükrü Server AYA and Ata ATUN; International Aydin University, North Cyprus
Abstract:
As a person who had wonderful connections in school, business, social and even international trade in a long lifetime, I, in my last thirty years took the burden of studying the background of this “genocide” fanfare which is not supported by “any legally valid evidence or document” and hence has been standing as a controversy disturbing our all time “amicable sentiments with several Turkish Armenian buddies”. My prevailing friendly relations with reasonable Armenians are strong enough not to be infected by irresponsible publications or unproven grand-ma tales. Crime and punishment is not hereditary. Also, as mature persons it is more than half of a century that we could rid ourselves from racial, national and religious difference.  Persons are born with natural national roots and beliefs hard to alter.

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I’VE HELD ON TIGHT TO THE WINGS OF THE COSMOS…

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 Autobiographic Poetic Diary

Dedicated to my dear sister Olcay Ünver and my immediate Family in Istanbul…

One half of me is from Turkey
The other half America
My country of birth – my roots and the first half of my life rests in Turkey
The second half of my life – almost thirty-years-long following it rests in America


Bircan ÜNVER

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YAŞAM’IN GİDİŞ–GELİŞLERİNDEN BİR KESİT

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Bircan Ünver ~ Özgeçmiş 
1959 Yukarıkale/Sivas doğumlu olan Bircan Ünver, İstanbul Bankası’ndaki sekiz yıllık iş hayatından sonra, MSÜ Güzel Sanatlar Akademisi, Türk Sanatları Bölümünü bitirdi. 1984 yılında, ilk sergi haberlerini Nokta Dergisi (Gelişim Yayınları) için hazırlamaya başladı. Takip eden yıllarda ise sanat yazıları ve röportajları Sanat Olayı, Hürriyet-Gösteri, Sanat Çevresi başta olmak üzere çeşitli dergi ve gazetelerde yayımlandı. [Read more…] about YAŞAM’IN GİDİŞ–GELİŞLERİNDEN BİR KESİT
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