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MILITARY LINKS

 Military.com - America's oldest operating all-military-forces website

 U.S. Army/Air Force Radio Relay History in Turkey
   beginning 1943 through 1960s.


 Map of American Duty Stations in Turkey

 The Navy CT-branch website featuring guestbooks, rosters.

 List of duty stations in Navy SecGru

 TUSLOG, a Brief History

 TUSLOG Units List

 Incirlik Alumni Association, Peggy Hyatt-Buchanan is the President/Webmaster  [link updated 12/23/2009]

 TUSLOG era American Post Offices in Turkey

 Cuban Missile Crisis in detail from National Security Archive.

 Spokesman Magazine Online  [link updated 12/23/2009]

 APO/FPO Covers Exhibit:

 Turkish Air Force images

 National Security Agency history.

 Turkish Military Id - "The Red Book"

 Ankara High School web page

 Memories of the old RBO-2 Radio

 Bainbridge Naval Training Center History

 More about Bainbridge Naval Training Center

 San Diego Naval Training Center Now closed, the center is under redevelopment.

 San Diego Naval Historical Association along with History of San Diego's Boot Camp



LINKS ABOUT ATATURK


About Ataturk - A tribute to one of the 20th century's great leaders.

 Ataturk Library - Interesting historic repository of Ataturk's papers and information, much translated into English.

 Daughters of Ataturk Website - DOFA is an organization devoted to Turkish women and foreign women married to Turkish men, and the website contains information about Ataturk, Turkey, and Commentary and Articles.


TURKISH AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

HOUSE OF TURKEY, SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA
is an organization located in San Diego, California and working with the House of Pacific Relations to build a cottage called the House of Turkey in Balboa Park, the main park in San Diego. This cottage will be a non-political, non-religious cultural gathering and learning place for the world community. You can learn more information by checking our website or by calling/emailing us. We have a major fund raiser coming up on Sunday, May 29. They will begin their donation/solicitation campaign sometime this summer, let them know if you would like to be involved. Visit: www.houseofturkey.org.

Associations and Component state associations: (Click the name for website or the e-mail link for information.)

 Headquarters, Assembly of Turkish American Associations,  assembly@ataa.org>

 Arizona Turkish American Association, taaaz.org>info@taaz.org

 TAA California North

 TAA California South, President@excom.atasc.org

Turkish American Cultural Society of Colorado, eozkan@mines.edu

Turkish American Cultural Association of Southern New England/Connecticut, snetaca@aol.com

Florida Turkish American Association
Turkish American Cultural Association of Florida, tacaf.org

North Florida Turkish American Cultural Association, 904-721-1734

Turkish American Cultural Association of Georgia,

Turkish American Society of Augusta & Aiken,
klmaf@hotmail.com

Turkish American Friendship Association of Hawaii, turkalp@lava.net

American-Turkish Association of Indiana, ata_in_mail@yahoo.com

Turkish American Cultural Alliance of Chicago, info@tacaonline.org

Turkish American Association for Cultural Exchange, taace@taace.org">

Turkish American Association of Louisiana,
taalmail@aol.com

Turkish American Cultural Society of New England, Inc., tacs@world.std.com

Maryland American Turkish Association (Awaiting link updates)

Washington Turkish Women Association, dizdaremel@hotmail.com

Turkish American Cultural Association of Michigan, president@tacam.org

Turkish American Association of Minnesota, president@taam.org

Turkish American Cultural Alliance of St. Louis, president@tacastl.org

Turkish American Association of Greater Kansas City, taakc1@aol.com

American Turkish Association of North Carolina, president@ata-nc.org

Azerbaijan Society of America (NJ), tomris@erols.com

American Turkish Islamic and Cultural Center (NJ), payperview28@hotmail.com

Anadolu Club (NJ), tayfunsel@aol.com

Karacay Turks Mosque and Cultural Association (NJ), 973-238-1868

Young Turks Cultural Aid Society, ataturk2k@aol.com

Turkish American Association of Central Ohio, cozmeral@columbus.rr.com

Turkish American Association of Northeastern Ohio, tasno@tasno.org

Turkish American Association of Oklahoma, aandm@galstar.com

Pittsburg Turkish American Association (PA), ptaa@ptaa.org

Turkish American Friendship Society of the United States (PA), tafsus@tafsus.com

American Association of Houston (TX), president@atahouston.org

Turkish Americian Association of Northern Texas, turant@turant.org

Turkish American Ass of San Antonio (TX), lwilson9@satx.rr.com

The Melungeon Heritage Association Inc. (WV),P.O. Box 4042, Wise, Virginia, 24293

Turkish American Cultural Association, Washington (State), board@tacawa.org

American Turkish Association of Washington (DC), info@atadc.org

Turkish American Association of Milwaukee, korkut@earthlink.net

Turkish Culture and Folklore Society of Canada (Toronto), seyhan.nuyan@nellesautomation.com

Federation of Canadian Turkish Associations (Awaiting Updated Links)

Turk-Amerikan Dernegi-Ankara Associations, director@taa-ankara.org.tr , CanTurk@CanTurkFed.org

US-TURKEY SISTER CITIES

Does the city where you live have a sister city in Turkey? If so, let us know! If not, click here!. NEWS FLASH: Adana, Piraziz and Alanya Turkiye are seeking sister city relationships. (That's a hint!)

Pleasant Hill, CA and Merzifon, Turkiye
This pleasant town, near Concord, California has an ongoing relationship with Merzifon including exchange educational and visitation programs.

Houston, TX and Istanbul
They have been sister cities since 1988!

Fort Lauderdale, FL and Mugla, Turkiye
Sister cities working with the Wheelchairs for Peace program.


TURKISH ARTS

Turkish Culture is an awesome website featuring exhibits of Turkish art, architecture and all the arts.

Turkey in the Sky With Diamonds

Painters, history of Turkish Art

Fabulous site about Whirling Dervishes, this year celebrating their 800th year! They'll be touring the USA and Canada April - November 2007.

A compendium of art sites in Turkey

Orhan Taylon, Samsun-born artist now works in Istanbul.

Portraits of the Sultans,from 15th century!

Famous Iznik Tiles Another site: About Iznik tiles


TURKISH MEDIA & TURKEY INFO SITES

The Turkish Cultural Hour
Listen live on the Internet from KUSF-FM, San Francisco, at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (8:00 p.m. EDT). Just click their "Listen Now" button to hear the broadcasts.

Turks in America
Turkish-Americans are a young group, having the youngest median age among European ancestral groups, at 32.8 years in the 1990 Census. Find out more about these wonderful folks who contribute to the success of the U.S.

WorldTurkey
Fabulous and valuable site containing a huge picture gallery of Turkish sites along with plenty information about our favorite country. There's also a companion site, wowTurkey.com all in Turkish!

Turkey Central
And boy! is it ever! Anything you need to know about Turkey is listed here on a directory site bigger than Yahoo's!

Turkish Newspapers
Listing of most newspapers in Turkey

Turkish Magazines
Listing of most magazines in Turkey

Turkish Radio Stations
Listing of most stations in Turkey including those broadcasting on the Web.

Hurriyet Newspaper Article about American Military in Turkey

Hurriyet News in English

Turkish Press Online News in English

Assembly of Turkish American Associations

Federation of Turkish American Associations

Earthquake Engineering and Architectural Planning in Istanbul

 

TRAVEL

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Hello Turkey!
"Almost everything you'd want to know about Turkey" is here at helloturkey.net!

MyMerhaba.com
Meet people who moved from the U.S. and other countries to Turkey to live.

Turkey Villas Holiday villa and apartment accommodations in Turkey. Turkey Central
A great website with everything about Turkey. Enjoy yourself!

Turkey Travel Planner
Tom Brosnahan of Lonely Planet guidebooks presents all the secrets and arrangements necessary for an enjoyable trip to Turkey!

Mehlika Seval Tours
Eminent historian, author, guide and advisor to travel guru Rick Steves. She knows Turkiye! And if you invite Mehli, she'll come to your town with her dynamic Slide Show Tour to amaze everyone in your audience with Turkey's beauty.

 U.S. State Department
Current Background Notes on Turkey

 City of Degirmendere

 City of Trabzon page

 Municipality of Izmir page

 City of Sinop page (in Turkish)

 Balikesir Info in English. Also visit the City of Balikesir website.

 Izmir city tourism page - In English.

 Diyarbakirand Diyarbakir Photos

 Trabzon Information

Van, Turkey

Tourism in Turkey
     General touring information.


FOODS


The ultimate memory: Gazoz!  This is Uludag's Gazoz website...the most popular soft drink in Turkey is now worldwide!

Efes Beer
Our contributor, Paul Leiner, says it's one of the world's great lagers!

Raki, the Traditional Turkish Drink. Surely you remember Raki!

Make Ekmek! The Turkish bread recipe.

 Turkish Recipes All the flavors you remember!


LANGUAGE

About the Turkish language
Roman letters since 1926, for a language 6,000 years old. A fascinating look at Turkçe!

Turkish Alphabet - with sounds!

Translate Turkish words to English
and vice versa

INVESTMENTS

Turkish Vacation and Holiday Property For Sale
Turkey Real Estate has agents in all the major resorts to help you to find your dream Turkish property.

Real Estate in Turkey
Buy a villa or home and rent it..or live in it...$60,000 average price (38,000 Euros)

Investment Property in Turkey
Turkey Investment Property in Belek, Side, Antalya, Alanya, Kemer

Istanbul Stock Exchange
Fascinating watching the results of the recent re-valuation of the Turkish Lira - i.e. deleting 6 zeroes from the value. What used to be something like $1 = 1,500,000 TL is now $1 = 1.5 YTL (Yeni Turk Lirasi).

Investing in Turkey
Many people are broadening their portfolios to include foreign investments, and with Turkey's desire to join the European Union, this material from the Turkish Embassy is valuable.

HISTORY

Whitman Ancient Theatre Archive
Incredible ancient Greek and Roman theatres throughout Turkey and Greece, many with 350-degree panoramas along with architectural information, histories and more.

Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative
Turkish narratives, music, images and more from a huge archive collected at Texas Tech University by The late Dr. Warren Stanley Walker a friend of our contributor, Andrew Hall.

17 August 1999, Kocaeli, Turkey Earthquake
Heart wrenching photos and information from Istanbul to Golcuk and behond.

About Turkish money
A bit of inflation since the 1950s and 60s. Note the denominations of bank notes - those are Turkish Lire!

Turkish Cultural Foundation
A fabulous and
    comprehensive website!

Comprehensive Turkish History site.

Ancient coins

MUSIC LIBRARY

Play some Turkish MIDI music! Click the button below and a Jukebox Player will open. Select a tune, then click the triangle to play. To end the music, click the rectangle on the player and close player by clicking on the "X" in upper right corner. When you leave the website, be sure to close out the player, or enjoy the music throughout your time on the web.

ALSO...
Download & Play Some M-P-3's:

If you served in Turkey you'll know these songs, particularly if you were there in the 1950s and '60s.

  • Turkish National Anthem
  • Turkish Anthem on Guitar
    arranged and played by Dr.M.Safa Yeprem. Fabulous!
    (Click start button in image below:)

    MP3s:

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