What Went Wrong with Turkey and Why does it Matter?

Two members of the Turkish Muslim community in the Triangle will talk to us about the Erdoğan regime in Turkey, and its impact, and why many Turkish Muslim families have recently come and started a new life in the United States, while facing many new challenges here.

One of our speakers is a graduate of Hartford Seminary in Connecticut with a Master’s degree in Islamic Studies and Christian-Muslim relations and Dialogue.  She received the graduate certificate in Islamic chaplaincy.  She worked as a university chaplain intern at Cornell University and completed her clinical pastoral education at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, New York, as a hospital chaplain. She has lived with her family in Cary, NC since 2010. She has served as one of the board members of Institute of Islamic and Turkish Studies, Raleigh branch, and she has taught at the Continuing Education Department of Duke University since 2012, offering Introduction to Islam classes.

Our other speaker describes himself as American by nationality, of Turkish heritage.  He is a Muslim by religion, and his principles are Universalist.  He first came to San Diego, California in 1998 for graduate studies, and then moved to San Francisco during the dot com boom, where he got married and started a family.  He moved with his wife and three children to NC in 2016.   He is a head coach to a Buckeyes team.  He and his family love the community here.  He currently works as a consultant and is in the process of building a new startup.

If you were not able to attend this program, or would like more information about it, you will find a great resource here to help you understand the situation in Turkey:

https://fgulen.com/images/en-EN/what_went_wrong_with_turkey.pdf