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Call for photos and stories
We need stories and photographs from your times in Turkey in the 60s
or visits back more recently to include in this year's directory. Please go
to your old stack of photos and dig out your letters. Think of an
event that's stayed with you and jot it down for us. If you've
returned to Turkey, share a pictures and what you discovered upon your
return. Please send them to
Sandy Anderson by March 15th. |
Jack Boatright
(Turkey 9) is joining Peace Corps again! He and his wife,
Ina, will become Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco beginning
Sept. 6th, 2009. They will both be 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.
Pat Mitchell Lowther,
Turkey-2, was interviewed by NPR on Jan 17 about her plan to take photos of
her mother, grandfather, and great-grandmother to the Mall for the
Inauguration of President Obama. Hear her at:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99520502
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.
Cumhuriyet Bayram Dinners 2008:
We celebrated the Bayram in nine (9) sites this year. A couple of groups
joined with
local Turkish organizations. Reports
are now coming in.

Ataturk and Washington
Turkish Republic Postal Stamp, 1926
Gifted by the Late
Armagan Sanver, Veteran of the Korean War and Member of the
Americana and Turkish Veterans Association. Evinch Family
Collection.
We have just learned that Joyce Gurian Zarkin (T-15) passed away on Oct.12, 2008.
Several
of our members joined
Anatolian Artisans for a cultural trip to
Eastern Turkey in May. For a sampling of some of the
places they visited, check out
Sandy Pfunder's 2008 photos of eastern Turkey. You'll
also find links to his photo albums online. You can also
check out Joanne
Omang's (T-4) wonderful description of the trip and see her
photos
Finn,
Robert (T-15)
Just published Finn's translation of
Orpheus by Nazli Eray.

"Robert Finn's
translation of Turkish author Nazli Eray's
Orphée
makes available to the English-language reader a
rewriting of the myth from the perspective of Eurydice, the wife
of Orpheus. Eray's surrealistic version takes place in a hot
resort town in contemporary Turkey. The setting of an
archaeological dig gives a connection to the past and literally
to the underworld. Found in the dig is a statue of the Roman
emperor Hadrian, who proceeds to offer an unusual perspective on
modern life and values through mysterious letters carried by a
messenger pigeon. Eray also comments on modernity, as the city
of Ankara emerges as a character in the novel's fantasy. Set in
junta-ruled Turkey of the 1980s, the novel takes its place as a
crucial slice of Turkish literary history."
More on the book and details for purchasing
it.

Dora Glidewell Nadolski (T-1) is
publishing a new book:
The Etatist Turkish Republic and Its Political and
Socio-Economic Performance from 1980-1999: A Developing State
Impacted by International Organizations and Interdependence.
More information and prepublication order
information.
Robinson Sawmill History,
a memoir from Harlan Green (T-5) of his Peace Corps training in
Vermont including some photos.
Messages of regional interest
Sandy Anderson's memoir of that fateful day during Peace
Corps training in Austin, Texas, when gunman Charles Whitman
began shooting randomly.
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Peace Corps
Library now available online. It boasts the
largest collection of Peace
Corps related reference material in the world.
New Buralarda Editors
Marcia Gnuse, who served as Buralarda's editor for more than ten years,
has decided to move on to other
things. Marcia collected and published
information through the years before we were really connected by
computers and when publishing a newsletter was a tedious process
of cutting and pasting--literally.
You did a great job, Marcia! Thanks, for all the
hard work, great newsletters, and your very important part in
keeping us in touch.
Stepping up to take over in Marcia's place are our new
editors:
Steve Poppick
(T-10) and
Peggy Hanson (T-1).
Both Steve and Peggy are accepting material for Buralarda
so if you have anything new to report, reports of Bayram dinners,
or other news of interest to our membership, please be sure to
send it to them. Photos are also gratefully accepted to
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Memories
of Turkey:
This note from Sandy Pfunder is a more recent event but
relates back to our service in Turkey:
This past Tuesday night, our Turkish
language class had its last "ders" of the "winter semester".
As is traditional, we meet at a Turkish restaurant for the
last class, and this time we gathered at Atilla's
Restaurant in Arlington, Virginia. A young woman who was
waiting on our table told us that she was college student in
Northern Virginia and was originally from Edirne. We
mentioned that a couple of us (Linda Scheffer and I) had
been Peace Corps volunteers in Turkey. The next words out of
her mouth were: "Do you know Bob and Sylva Staab?" Of
course, we said that we did. "My grandfather married them,"
she said, referring (we judged) to the famous village
wedding that occurred some 43 years ago in a village near
Edirne.
----Sandy Pfunder (T9)
(More
memories) |
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Explore and enjoy!
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requests
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highlights, other items of interest
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of enduring or regional interest
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of Turkey
Events: details about dinners, reunions, other
scheduled events
History: background of
our organization & PC Turkey
Membership:
benefits and form
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of interest about our members
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RPCVs' remembrances of life and events during PC service
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dinners
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©Arkadaslar
04/12/09
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Arkadaslar
is a network of 1200 people who served as Peace Corps Volunteers
or staff in Turkey between 1962 and 1970. 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.
Board
Meetings:
6:00 socialize, 6:30
dinner and meeting.
Next Meeting:
Wed, April 22, 2009
Venue:
Atilla's Restaurant Columbia
Pike
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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.
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