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This photo from Dick Janzig (T-15). "I like this one because of the back story.  I was wandering around in Ulus with my camera and saw this interesting wall with the earthquake resistant brick fill.  Before I could take its picture I was surrounded by children who wanted to have their picture taken.  I lined them up in the middle of the street so that they would not cover the wall and took the picture.  There was a flaw in the image (I had to cut off the right side) leaving me with a wonderful picture of the children and very little of the wall.  Ulus, October 8, 1967."

Call for photos for Arkadaslar Turkey book. 
Before we start the selection process we would like to have many more images submitted by Turkey Volunteers. Remember, the criteria is that the images should have a compelling image (be a good photograph), tell a story, show aspects of Turkish life, convey how we fit in the country and the jobs that we did, and give a sense of the time and place (the 60s and Turkey).  If you have images to contribute, please contact Sandy Anderson at TurkeyDost@aol.com and she'll give you more information.

Returned Peace Corps Volunteers can now have their gravestone carved with a special Peace Corps emblem.  It could also be a symbol used on a newspaper obituary.    

Frank Creel (T-2), passed away May 18 2010.  
Bob McCord (T-8) passed away April 28, 2010.


Death of Ali Yonceova, PC Staff member, on Dec. 11, 2009 in Germany     

Priscilla Murry (T-15)
reports on some theory-shattering archaeological news.  See Member News.

From the Arkadaslar Archives: articles from Murray Rosenbaum's work as a PCV (1967-69)

 
Link to Tim and Nancy Dial (T-8) photos of their time as volunteers
  
Link to Tarry Davis (T-13) website with photos from his time as a volunteer.       
  
George Park's return to Turkey and to Nemrut Dağı
 
Allan Gall's Observations from 2009 Return Trip to Turkey

Cumhuriyet Bayram Dinners 2009

Articles of interest:
"Bold, Peristent Experimentation" - article by Robert C. Terry, Jr., from Worldview Magazine, Fall 2008 on the roots of the Peace Corps.
"How the Peace Corps Got Its Name" by Peter Grothe, a former Humphry staffer,  from Worldview Magazine, Fall 2008
 
Jack Boatright
(Turkey 9) has joined Peace Corps again!  He and his wife, Ina, became Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco in Sept. 2009.  They are both working in Small Enterprise Development.

Interested in seeing where some of Arkadaşlar's money is donated and the good it is doing?  Read Yıldız Yağcı's recent article in WorldView magazine about the impact her organization, Anatolian Artisans, is having on some Turkish women.  Used by permission of the author and WorldView Magazine/National Peace Corps Association.

W. Joseph Isaacs (T-10) has passed away.  Obituary.

Group Reunions:
  From time to time various of the RPCV groups have their own reunions.  Just recently, Turkey 2s had a reunion and a couple of years ago the Turkey 15s got together.  Those photos and reports are under the group pages (under Contacts), at least for the moment.

   Featured Turkey RPCV:

  David Delthony (T-16),
Furniture Artist



To see more of David's work, go to his website

 

Memories of Turkey:



Lunch at summer camp in Istanbul (1966)

                                                 (More memories)

 

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ŠArkadaslar
08/29/10

 
Arkadaslar is a network of 1200 people who served as Peace Corps Volunteers or staff in Turkey between 1962 and 1970 and other friends of Turkey.  Arkadaslar is committed to maintaining the network and fostering continued ties among our Turkish friends, ourselves, and our international communities.


Our membership is open to all former Turkey Peace Corps Volunteers and to all friends of Turkey.
 
Moved?  New e-mail address?   Please let us know your new contact information.

 
New directory
has been mailed to all members?  Don't have one?  Have you paid your 2010 dues?

Board Meetings

Next Meeting:
Wed, Sept 15, 2010
6:30 pm

Venue: 
   Atilla's Restaurant Columbia Pike
 Arlington


Peace Corps'
50th Anniversary &

 Arkadaslar Global Reunion
Sept 22-26, 2011
Details as we receive them.
 

 
Request from Webmaster: Please send us information of note on yourself or other Turkey RPCVs that we can post on the website and put into Buralarda


Also, we'd like to pay tribute to those who also served in Turkey but who have passed away.  If you have an obituary of one of our group that has passed away and/or would be willing to write a memoir--not matter how brief--please do so and send it to Ellie.  It would be nice to honor our deceased with more than a simple listing on our Obituaries page.