Category Archives: Turks

Turkish Cultural Council to permit use of toilet paper

Turkish Muslims are now permitted to use toilet paper, instead of their bare hand, to clean up after doing their business. The use of toilet paper has been declared halal by Turkey’s religious authority Diyanet, after centuries of forbiddance by … Continue reading

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9/11/11 – Two huge explosions rock Chicopee as local Muslims celebrate 911 anniversary.

“It is the strangest thing I’ve ever seen,”  said a Chicopee Electric Light manager. In what could not possibly have been a terror attack, multiple explosions, at the exact time as the attacks just 10 years ago, rocked Chicopee, blowing … Continue reading

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9/11 10th anniversary celebrations: Muslim Perspectives from Dilyara and Harun Celik

Dilyara Celik, 26, of Chicopee, is director of the women’s association of the Turkish Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts in West Springfield. Harun Celik opened the Hampden Charter School of Science 2 years ago to help promote science, and to … Continue reading

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The Turkish Cultural Council outreach – Gaza Aid Peace Flotilla

The Turkish Cultural Council and the Gaza Peace Flotilla appreciate the support of Massachusetts residents like Ruth Hooke, Joan Lindeman, and all of the other supporters of the Turks, against the Israelis who are causing all the problems in the … Continue reading

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Charter school focuses on science – MassLive.com

Charter school focuses on science Thursday, November 19, 2009 By JEANETTE DeFORGE  jdeforge@repub.com CHICOPEE – It is the Turkish language class that made Jazzmyn Anderson really like her new school. “It is really, really fun and it has to do with … Continue reading

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Charter school focuses on science (and Islam) – MassLive.com

The Hampshire Charter School of Science has opened in Chicopee to help teach science and traditional Turkish Islamic values to young children. Harun and Dilyara Celik, working closely with other devotees under the instructions of their Sufi guru, Fethullah Gulen,  … Continue reading

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