Monthly Archives: May 2012

July 25, 2012, Washington, D.C.—This week, the U.S. House of Representatives voted on H.R. 2362, the Indian Tribal Trade and Investment Demonstration Project Act of 2011. Introduced by Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), the only Native American member of Congress, the …read more

TCA celebrates the 89th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne, which recognized the boundaries of the modern state of Turkey. This international treaty was signed on July 24, 1923 and shortly thereafter, the Republic of Turkey was proclaimed on October …read more

Today marks the 38th anniversary of the Turkish peace operation on Cyprus on July 20, 1974 to protect the lives and liberty of the island’s Turkish community. The dispute over Cyprus did not begin in 1974. The independent Republic of …read more

For over a century, from 1763 onwards, the peoples of Circassian lands situated in the north-western Caucasus defended their homelands against Russian expansion. The Circassian people, who by and large adopted Islam in the eighteenth century, were almost entirely affected …read more

On May 18, 1944, the entire Crimean Tatar population in Crimea, was rudely awakened by Soviet soldiers, loaded on trucks, taken to the nearest train stations and brutally deported to Central Asia, the Urals and Siberia. On May 19, 1944 …read more

On May 8, the Turkish Embassy welcomed Members of Congress, musical legends, and leaders of the African American community to celebrate the spirit of the late Ahmet Ertegun with the second installment of its 2012 Ertegun Jazz Series. In remembering …read more

Last week, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Australian counterpart, Julia Gillard met in Ankara, Turkey and agreed to work closely together to commemorate the centenary of the Gallipoli campaign. The two leaders announced that 2015 would be …read more