Congratulations to Turksa President for Receiving the 2012 President's and Graduate Student Organization Awards

Merhaba,

It is a great pleasure to announce that Cuneyt Gozu, the President of Turkish Student Association, has been selected to receive both President’s Award for Leadership - International Student Leadership Award and Graduate Student Organization Distinguished Service Award on April 1. These awards recognize students and organizations that have made significant contributions to the quality of student life at the University at Albany.

Cuneyt Gozu thanked the award committee for their recognition and dedicated these honorary awards to the following Turksa officers and volunteers: Hamide Yilmaz-Gozu, Ersin Dincelli, Esma Nur Ulcay, Jak Akdemir, Imran Selcuk, Elanur Kibis-Selcuk, Esra Altay, Umit Boz, Serhat Kert, Giray Aksoy, Deniz Ortactepe, Selim Unal, Selman Ipek, and Zumrut Akcam.

University at Albany President George M. Philip and Cuneyt Gozu 

You may found the complete list of recipients and more information about the President’s Award for Leadership on this link. 

As Turkish Student Association, we are extremely glad that our contributions and dedication have been recognized by the university and we would also like to thank Cuneyt for governing our association at its best.

The award ceremony will be held on April 1, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. in the Campus Center Ballroom. Please RSVP by March 27, 2012 to Student Involvement & Leadership at (518) 442-5566 or involvement@albany.edu.

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Happy Republic Day!

Today, we are proudly celebrating the 88th anniversary of Turkish Republic (Cumhuriyet Bayrami).

After the War of Independence, Turkish Grand National Assembly under the leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk declared the new form of Turkish government as the republic on this day in 1923.
 
We would like to take this opportunity to present our gratitude to the Great Leader Atatürk and to all our grandfathers and mothers who made great sacrifices to serve our country and the nation.

Turkish students at UAlbany keeping watchful eye on earthquake - YNN, Your News Now

We would like to thank YNN for taking time to interview with us to take public`s attention to the recent earthquake disaster in the eastern Turkey. You can click the link below to watch the interview.

Turkish students at UAlbany keeping watchful eye on earthquake - YNN, Your News Now

Times Union has also published an article about the earthquake disaster and the events that Turkish Student Association and Turkish Cultural Center of Albany are organizing, We would like thank Times Union for spreading the word. You can find the mentioned article on the link below:

Sadness tinges Turkish independence events - Times Union