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Photo of three Cayiriçi friends of Sandy Pfunder.  See more 2009 photos.

   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

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
  Anatolian Artisans--one of the projects Arkadaşlar supports has two events that might be of interest: 
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 Annual Turkish Arts and Crafts Sale on Dec. 5th at the Washington International School, Washington, DC

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 A Cultural Tour of Western Turkey, June 2– 12, 2010 (11 days, 10 nights)  Details
 

 CUMHURIYET BAYRAM DINNERS - 2009

We celebrated the Bayram in nine sites this year including: Maine and Illinois!  Reports are now coming in.

Maine/New Hampsire
Massachusetts/New England
New York City
Washington, DC 
North Carolina/South Carolina

Florida  
Illinois
Wisconsin
Oregon:  Saturday, November 21, 
potluck at the home of Janice &Steve Katz. Also hosted by Melissa Stewart.  If you are interested in attending this year’s Bayram dinner, contact Melissa Stewart or Sandy Anderson. 
Washington


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, 2009 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.


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.

 ÿ  We have 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 2008.  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)  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) has published 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 order information.



Robinson Sawmill History, a memoir from Harlan Green (T-5) of his Peace Corps training in Vermont including some photos.

Sandy Anderson's memoir of that fateful day during Peace Corps training in Austin, Texas, when gunman Charles Whitman began shooting randomly.

Peace Corps Library now available online.  It boasts the largest collection of Peace Corps related reference material in the world.

  New Buralarda Editors
Stepping up to take over in Marcia Gnuse'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 accompany your stories or news items. 

Memories of Turkey:


Memories of lunch at summer camp in Istanbul (1966)

                                                 (More memories)

Our website: Explore and enjoy!
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     Events: details about dinners, reunions, other scheduled events
     History: background of our organization & PC Turkey
     Membership: benefits and form
     Member News: news of interest about our members
     Memories of Turkey:  RPCVs' remembrances of life and events during PC service
     Photo Gallery: photos of and by Arkadaslar members, including reunions & bayram dinners
     Projects:  updates on projects we support
     Services:  listserv, newsletter, directory
     Books & Art:  works produced by Arkadaslar members
     Links:  Turkish-American associations, embassy, Turkish sites, books on Turkey...
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©Arkadaslar
01/15/10

 
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:
 6:00 socialize, 6:30 dinner and meeting.
Next Meeting:

 
Venue: 
   Atilla's Restaurant Columbia Pike
 Arlington

 
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.