Fetullah Gulen missionaries have also opened Turkish Cultural Centers and RUMI clubs around the world. to promote the Koran and Sunnah, the sayings of practices of their prophet, Mohammad.
2/20/13 – ribbon cutting – The new Turkish Cultural Center of Western Massachusetts is located at 540 Meadow St., suite 104, Agawam.
The center was originally founded in 2008 at 520 Union St. in West Springfield, but the building was damaged in the 2011 tornado and later demolished.
The Door to Islam
C’mon in!
Turkish Independence Day – Smyrna 1922 – “Treat him as he deserves”
Turks like to commemorate grand openings with scissors to remind them of the haircut they gave Chrysostomos of Smyrna on Turkey’s Independence Day.
Chrysostomos was the leader of the Orthodox Christians and went to see the local commanding officer to try to arrange the evacuation of Christians. He approached the general and extended his hand. The general spit on him. He pushed Chrysostomos out the door and yelled at the Muslim crowd, “Treat him as he deserves.”
The crowd dragged his down the street until they reached a barbershop. The crowd decided that Chrysostomos needed a shave. They pulled his beard out and rubbed dog excrement on him. The man with the straight razor cut off an ear and, at the sight of blood, the mob went mad trying to get close to Chrysostomos, who was barely able to murmur, “Receive my soul into Thy Kingdom, O Lord,” before he died. They cut out his eyes, ears, and nose.
There were French marines standing by and their officer forbade them to defend the Christian. The body was dragged further down the street, when they stopped and cut off his penis and put it in his dead mouth.
Volkan Yesilyurt at the opening of the first TCC.
The Turkish contingent is represented the disciples of Fethullah Gulen and the various organizations they have formed in order to reach out and demonstrate, with real life examples, the Islamic culture that the Turks have been promoting for centuries.
Fetullah Gulen Ministries
Gulen left Turkey in March 1998 citing health reasons (like many, many millions of people, Gulen has diabetes). At the time he was being investigated for plotting to overthrow the secular republic to replace it with an Islamic state (he had been imprisoned for six months in 1971 under a similar charge). In the spring of 1998, a video was aired on Turkish TV…
“You must move in the arteries of the system, without anyone noticing your existence, until you reach all the power centers… You must wait until such time as you have gotten all the state power, until you have brought to your side all the power of the constitutional institutions in Turkey… Until that time, any step taken would be too early – like breaking an egg without waiting the full 40 days for it to hatch. It would be like killing the chick inside. The work to be done is [in] confronting the world. Now, I have expressed my feelings and thoughts to you all – in confidence… trusting your loyalty and sensitivity to secrecy. I know that when you leave here – [just] as you discard your empty juice boxes, you must discard the thoughts and feelings expressed here.”
Today the Gulen Ministries occupy a large compound in the Pocono Mountains of Pennsylvania.
Turkish Cultural Council of Boston
Zafer Sahinoglu, PhD – President
TCCWESTERNMASS.ORG – 5/2009 – Ahmet Tahsin
- Servet Tatli, MD – Trustee
- Nesrin Tatli – Trustee
- Zafer Sahinoglu, PhD – Trustee
- Huseyin Kocaman – Trustee
- Arif Yilmaz – Trustee
- Sevda Porikli – Trustee
- Dilyara Celik – director of the women’s association of the TCC
Hampden Charter School of Science and Islam
- Harun Celik – Director
- Tarkan Topcuoglu – Curriculum Director
- Hasan Arslan, Trustee
- Pinar Karaaslan, Trustee
- Volkan Yesilyurt, Chair
- Nigar J Khan, Vice Chair
- Huseyin Oktay, Treasurer
- Zully Dinc, Secretary
UMass Rumi Club
- Abdul Kadir (president) and Melek Kocak
- Dilyara Celik – Rumi club – TCC
- Hafig Amamad – Rumi club
- Hasan Arslan – TCC
- Vulkan Yesilyurt – Selviöztürk Yeşilyurt – Konya, Turkey
- Evren Saban
- Hakan Kucukdereli
- Syeda Sanan Al Rafai
- Hira Malick
- Harkirat Kaur
- Zeeshan Mushtaq
- Kyla Hakim
- Beheshta Gohari
- Sinan Hanay
- Hus Mann
- Serkan Gurbuz
A Persian slave was also referred to as a ‘Rumi’, a derogatory term that Muslims used to refer to the Eastern ‘Roman’ Christians.
Massachusetts
- 500 Revere St Revere Ma 01089
Email:info@turkishcenterboston.org
Tel: 1 781 286 2777
Web: www.turkishcenterboston.org
Boston Turkish Cultural Center
- 1105 Commonwealth Avenu Suit 207 Boston MA
- Office: 1 413 363 3220
- Email: info@turkishcenterboston.org
- Web:www.turkishcenterboston.org
Western Massachusetts
- Address:540 Meadow St Ext Aghavam Ma 01001
- Email: info@tccmass.org
- Tel: 1 413 301 7720
- Web: www.ttccmass.org
Turks help Christian girls celebrate Easter in the traditional Islamic way.
