Turks in America

Turks in America is an online publication of The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at GMU and is focused on early Turkish immigrants in the US

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ABD Donanmasının muhafızı üç Erzurumlu Çoban Köpeği: Karabaş, Fındık ve Joe

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“I thought I am going to be killed, this is it! And my mother will get a letter saying ‘some mistake was made’ or ‘your son is missing’.

In the end, Bill Alli spent three days with the Turkish Brigade in Korea. He is now an honorary member of the Turkish Korean War Veterans.

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Korean War Veteran Bill Alli’s father migrated from Elazığ, Turkey to the US in 1912.

He was with the First Marine Division in Korea, and made a special effort to visit the Turkish Brigade. The Turks thought he was a spy, but after his identity was confirmed, he was welcomed.

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“Our father would help to bury Turks, he would wash the dead and read Koran over them. On occasion he had to travel to Connecticut to help bury a Turk. He was an educated man who had attended college in Turkey...”

Rosamond LeBlanc, one of the eight Abraham children

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Baker Abraham was born in Elazığ, Turkey and migrated to the US in early 1900s. He settled in Peabody, Massachusetts where he married an American lady of Lebanese Druze Heritage.

Mr. Abraham was an educated man and whenever a Turk passed away, he performed the religious service.

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Two Turkish immigrants, Yakub (George) Ahmed and İbrahim (Abraham) Camil sitting on the steps of the boarding house owned by Mr. Camil and located in Salem, Massachusetts.

They both came to the US in the early 1900s from Elazığ, Turkey and made the U.S. their home.

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For decades, Turkish/Ottoman coffeehouses in the US remained as the spaces where various Ottoman ethnic groups could come together, play backgammon, smoke nargile (pipe), and recreate a home away from home.

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The coffeehouse, which was one of the most important aspects of Ottoman social and cultural life, was also brought to the United States and was successfully transplanted by Turkish immigrants in the early 20th Century.

#WorldTurkishCoffeeDay

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Join us today at 5pm (EST) to learn more about early Ottoman/Turkish immigrants in New England and Dr. @IsilAcehan’s ghost hunting experience of 15 years! Hosted by @HistoricNE. To register: https://t.co/w7UQFCxUxZ

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October 7 with Marcia Hermansen! “American Muslim Negotiations of Authority in the Time of the Coronavirus.” Register👇🏾👇🏾

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Did you know that the first significant observance of #YomKippur in the US was held at a Turkish mosque in Chicago?

“Observing Yom Kippur and Celebrating the Anniversary of Sultan Abdulhamid’s Accession to the Throne in a Replica Mosque in Chicago” https://t.co/Rr1r9LkjyQ

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Dedication Of Headstone For Sidky And Madame Hranoush Bey (Fairmount Cemetery, Chatham, New Jersey)
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A Moving Story: Exploring The Manuscript Collection Of Haji Hilmi Tolluoğlu-Ali İhsan Tangören in America

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