TCA commemorated the 90th Anniversary of Turkish Republic Day on October 29. On this day in 1923, the newly recognized Turkish parliament proclaimed the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, who led the Turkish National War of Liberation, was unanimously elected as its first president. This year, as the 90th Anniversary of Turkish Republic Day is being celebrated, we express our sincere appreciation to the various organizations and friends of the Turkish-American community who delivered congratulatory messages marking this important milestone.
Chairman of Turkey's Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kilicdaroglu continued his Washington talks on Tuesday, as part of his first visit to the US as the chairman of Turkey's main opposition party. Kilicdaroglu came together with the US House of Representatives Majority Leader Congressman Eric Cantor, a meeting in which the Chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Ed Royce, CHP Deputy Chairmen Faruk Logoglu and Sezgin Tanrikulu were also present.
Several US-based Muslim NGOs sent a letter to Turkish PM Erdogan, expressing gratitude for his support to refugees across the world. Muslims living in the US sent a “thank-you letter” to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his support and help to refugees all around the world. The letter by “Muslim Americans and Friends of Turkey” was delivered to Namik Tan, Turkey’s ambassador in Washington.
ISTANBUL — Riot police fired tear gas, water cannon and rubber bullets in day-long clashes that lasted into the early hours Wednesday, battling protesters who have been occupying Istanbul's central Taksim Square and its adjacent Gezi Park in the country's most severe anti-government protests in decades. The crisis has left Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looking vulnerable for the first time in his decade in power and has threatened to tarnish the international image of Turkey, a Muslim majority country with a strongly secular tradition, a burgeoning economy and close ties with the United States.
