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TACS-RI 2009-2010 Board Members
  • President: Kamer Kosereisoglu
  • Vice president: Tulay Lawton
  • Treasurer: Hayri Izgi
  • Secretary: Fatma Gunes
  • Board member: Gulhan Akturk Pelopida
  • Board member: Ceylan F. Undey
  • Board member: n/a

Recent Announcements and News
Membership Announcement 2010 – Free Membership this year!

Please renew your membership or become a member now for 2010. Download membership form here and mail it to us with your check made payable to Turkish American Cultural Society of Rhode Island at P.O. Box 8904, Warwick, RI 02888. Thank you for your support.

Note: The availability of online donations through Paypal will be coming soon.
Membership options will be available for next year at levels below:
Student $10
Individual $30
Family $60

Thank you for your generosity.

Cultural Tour of Turkey

mortgages_overseas-turkey-mortgages1-150x1501Our major donor for last two years’ events, the Turkish Cultural Foundation has organized an intensive and immersive cultural tour of Turkey. Below is the announcement we received from the executive director of the foundation. It is worth a serious look if you want to see much of cultural, historical, and artistic aspects of Turkey

Designed by the Foundation’s experts, the tour is a celebration of Turkey’s rich history and cultural heritage and includes visits to all three Ottoman capitals and important Anatolian Seljuk towns, as well as select antique cities and archeological sites. This cultural immersion tour will take participants to Istanbul, Edirne, Iznik, Bursa, Safranbolu, Ankara, Amasya, Tokat, Sivas, Kayseri, Cappadocia, Konya and Antalya over 16 days. The Tour offers first-class accommodations throughout and is designed as a journey through the rich cultural history of Anatolia, highlighting cultural heritage sites of Turkey, while providing a taste of over thousand years of Anatolian Turkish culture through private performances and demonstrations of Turkish music, dance and art. Providing participants an unforgettable culinary experience, meticulously designed menus will showcase local and regional tastes, in addition to the best examples of Ottoman and Turkish cuisine.

The price for the Grand Tour of Turkey is $ 4,200 per person for double occupancy and $ 4,900 for single occupancy. The price is all inclusive except for roundtrip air travel to Istanbul. All proceeds will benefit the Turkish Cultural Foundation.

For a city by city itinerary, reservation and other information, please visit the Turkish Cultural Foundation website.

The newly designed Web site of the Turkish Cultural Foundation will please you with its new look and its content. While you are there, do not forget to hop over to their sister site, Turkish Music Portal.

Publication: Sultan’s Seal by Jenny White

7b2831e741-91cd-45d6-b842-e8946788603b7dimg1002-150x1501Our member, Jenny White has a new book out, Sultan’s Seal. The novel received great reviews and promises to be a good read. It is available at Amazon. See what others have said:

A wonderful read, written by someone who can write about the exotic and fascinating world of the late Ottoman Empire with knowledge and understanding … Of the highest quality Iain Pears, author of An Instance of the Fingerpost.

Intricate and subtle as a Turkish Carpet, lush as silk upon the skin … Its very appealing characters are caught between East and West, Islan and Christianity, and bound in a web of murder and treachery that only the luck few may escape. Diana Gabaldon, author of A Breath of Snow and Ashes