T.C. Houston Başkonsolosluğu/Turkish Consulate General in Houston

30 Ağustos Zafer Bayramımız Kutlu Olsun! 🇹🇷 👏

30 Ağustos zaferinin 98. yıldönümünde Cumhuriyetimizin kurucusu Gazi Mustafa Kemal Atatürk'ü, aziz şehitlerimizi ve tüm gazilerimizi rahmet, minnet ve saygıyla anıyoruz. 30 Ağustos Zafer Bayramımız Kutlu Olsun! 🇹🇷👏 Salgın öncesinde 2019 yılındaki etkinliğimizden görüntüler 👇

15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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15 July Democracy and National Unity Day

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15 Temmuz Demokrasi ve Milli Birlik Günü

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Coronavirus

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Türkiye'den ABD'ye Tıbbi Malzeme Yardımı / Turkey's Donation of Medical Supplies to U.S. 🇹🇷️🇺🇸

ABD’nin #KOVİD19 salgınıyla mücadelesine destek olmak amacıyla, Cumhurbaşkanımız Sayın Recep Tayyip Erdoğan'ın talimatlarıyla Vaşington’a gönderilen tıbbi yardım malzemelerini taşıyan askeri uçağımız 28 Nisan Salı günü Joint Base Andrews üssüne indi. Yardım kolilerinin içinde 500,000 cerrahi maske, 4,000 koruyucu önlük, 2,000 litre dezenfektan, 1,500 koruyucu gözlük, 400 adet N-95 maske ve 500 yüz koruma maskesi bulunmaktadır. "Ümitsizliğin ardında nice ümitler var, karanlığın ardında nice güneşler var" -Rumi Türkiye bu zorlu günlerde NATO müttefiki ABD’nin yanındadır. 🇹🇷️🇺🇸 #GüçlüTürkiye 🇹🇷️ #ÜlkemleGururDuyuyorum 🇹🇷️👏 #BirlikteYeneceğiz 🇹🇷️ -------------------------------------------------------------- With the instructions of H.E. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, on Tuesday, April 28 2020, our military plane carrying medical supplies landed at Joint Base Andrews outside Washington, D.C in order to support US' fight against the #COVID19 pandemic. The shipment includes 500,000 surgical masks, 4,000 overalls, 2,000 liters of disinfectant, 1,500 goggles, 400 N-95 masks and 500 face shields. "After hopelessness, there is so much hope, and after darkness, there is the much brighter sun" - Rumi Turkey stands in solidarity with our NATO ally U.S during these difficult days. 🇹🇷️🇺🇸 #StrongTurkey 🇹🇷️ #ProudofMyCountry 🇹🇷️👏 #StrongerTogether 🇹🇷

sağlık çalışanlarımızın burada da gururla anlattığımız cansiperane gayretlerini tüm kalbimizle alkışlıyoruz.

Sayın Bakanım Dr. Fahrettin Koca çağrınıza ABD’nde Türkiye’yi yaşayan ve yaşatmaya çalışan T.C. Houston Başkonsolosluğu mensupları olarak bizler de uyuyor ve değerli sağlık çalışanlarımızın burada da gururla anlattığımız cansiperane gayretlerini tüm kalbimizle alkışlıyoruz.

NecdetTurhan

Necdet Turhan Türkiye'nin görme engelli ilk dağcısı 5 Kıtada 5 Zirvede Bayrağımızı zirveye taşımak için hiçbir engel tanımayan sporcularımızı tebrik ediyoruz. 19 Mayıs Atatürk'ü Anma, Gençlik ve Spor Bayramımızı kutluyoruz 👏 🇹🇷

#GoTurkey

Did you know Turkey attracts 42 million yearly tourists, making it the 6th most popular tourist destination in the world? 🥳🇹🇷

#VisitTurkey

Keep your best memories of Turkey alive #VisitTurkey 🇹🇷👇

Bosnian mothers unite with mothers in Diyarbakır

The grief of losing children has united Bosnia with Diyarbakır, the Turkish city where mothers have been staging sit-ins for the return of their children abducted by PKK terrorists #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

PYD/YPG’s human rights violations

There has been growing evidence about PYD/YPG’s human rights violations such as recruiting child soldiers, intimidating dissidents, demographic engineering and forced conscription in areas under its control. Local population’s grievances against PYD/YPG’s tyrannical rule has been on constant rise. Through tunnels dug by PYD/YPG along the bordering areas in this region, explosives and ammunition have been smuggled to Turkey to be handed over to the PKK terrorist organization. Our resolve to fight against these terrorist organizations is firm. It is with this understanding that we have given our full support to all international efforts to this end since day one. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

America's ill-conceived policy to arm one terrorist group to fight another

“It was an ill-conceived policy to arm one terrorist group to fight another. And I think its time you stopped this policy. We’re very disappointed that you’re still working with the #YPG outside the zone of our operation.” #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

Unmasking the acronyms PKK - YPG/PYD

This is the terrorist organization Turkey is fighting against in NE Syria. Instead of standing by its NATO ally in its fight against these terrorists, the US is in the process of imposing sanctions on Turkey. Turkey has always supported international efforts to eradicate terrorism. As an active member of the Global Coalition against DEASH since its inception, Turkey fought against the terror group in Syria more than any other country and paid the heaviest price. Turkey was the only country engaging in chest-to-chest combat against DEASH terrorists in Syria. Since the beginning of the Syrian conflict, PYD/YPG terrorist organization has oppressed and intimidated the local population, the Syrian Kurds in particular, and forcibly displaced them. This counter-terrorism operation is intended also to facilitate the returns of Syrians who had been displaced due to acts of PYD/YPG amounting to crimes against humanity, including ethnic cleansing. Our main expectation from the international community, particularly from our Allies, is to support our fight against terrorism. As it did in the past, Turkey will continue to firmly counter all kinds of terrorist organizations. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

Turkish Red Crescent provides aid to Syrian border town Tal Abyad

Turkish Red Crescent provides aid to Syrian border town Tal Abyad. The city center of the Tal Abyad district was cleared of YPG/PKK terrorists as part of our ongoing #OperationPeaceSpring and Tal Abyad was liberated from a five-year occupation by DAESH and YPG/PKK terrorists. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

Origins of the bogus name #SDF

No need for further proof that the bogus name SDF was created by those aiding the YPG=PKK to give them ‘legitimacy’. This was the twisted plan to carve a terrorist enclave on our doorstep. #OperationPeaceSpring prevents this.

A Syrian man who was forcibly recruited by YPG/PKK terrorists has spoken out after surrendering to Turkish forces

“They said, ‘You have to join us, or we will kill you and your father.’” A Syrian man who was forcibly recruited by YPG/PKK terrorists has spoken out after surrendering to Turkish forces. Turkey rejects the false equation of Syrian Kurds with the terrorist group PKK and its Syrian offshoot, the YPG/PYD, the target of a Turkish anti-terror operation in northern Syria. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

Misinformation campaign about Turkey’s #OperationPeaceSpring

This ABC News report claiming Turkey is ‘bombing Kurd civilians’ is just the latest example of the surge in fake news about Turkey’s #OperationPeaceSpring in this country. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı

Senator Lindsey Graham's comments about YPG Kurds

"Your YPG Kurdish problem is a real problem. I told President Trump that Obama made a huge mistake in relying on YPG Kurds. Now we have to make sure that Turkey is protected from this threat in Syria" - Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina. 👇

Misinformation campaign perpetuated by pro-terrorist PKK/YPG/PYD social media accounts

A deliberate misinformation campaign is being perpetuated by pro-terrorist PKK/YPG/PYD social media accounts, which disseminate falsified photos in an effort to mislead international public. Know your facts. #OperationPeaceSpring #BarışPınarıHarekatı #KnowledgeTrulyMatters

Facts about #OperationPeaceSpring and the PKK/YPG Terrorist Group

Facts about #OperationPeaceSpring and the PKK/YPG Terrorist Group 1. The PKK and its affiliates are designated terrorist organisations by the US State Department and CIA, the European Union as well as Turkey and a host of allies. Turkey has confronted the particularly vicious terrorism of the PKK since the mid-1980s. The scope of the conflict has claimed the lives of nearly 40,000 between 1984 and 2018 alone. Over recent years, the conflict has intensified with the organisation’s growth and regional proliferation. Its most recent offshoot and established affiliate, the People’s Protection Units (YPG), founded in 2011 shortly after the beginning of the Syrian civil war, offered a new transnational reach to the terrorist organisation. 2. Turkey is home to the largest ethnic Kurdish population in the world. The PKK doesn’t represent even a tiny fraction of Kurds. Through Operation Peace Spring, Turkey is attacking the PKK and its affiliate groups not Kurds. 3. The YPG and its parent organisation, the PYD, have committed extensive war crimes. With the emergence of Daesh in Syria in 2014, the YPG was quick to try to claim legitimacy in its fight against the terrorist group, while benefiting from the Syrian regime’s intentional policy of non-interference. The use of Daesh to legitimise the YPG was mostly self-serving, underlying the express goal of expanding control of territories in North Syria. Through careful review of eyewitness accounts and satellite imagery, as documented by human rights organizations including Amnesty International, the PYD/YPG was found guilty of deliberate displacement of thousands of civilians, and razing entire villages. In some instances, the YPG forced out Arab and Turkmen villagers in areas they laid claim to, with documented threats of providing their coordinates to the United States as targets for bombardment or the outright burning of houses. “They pulled us out of our homes and began burning the home… they brought the bull

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Turkey’s intention is clear: ▪️To dismantle the terrorist corridor on our border. ▪️To fight against PKK, which is the enemy of Kurdish people. ▪️To combat DEASH and prevent its resurgence.

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Houston's Turkish Film Festival

This year's Turkish Film Festival will premiere with 'Sibel' with an introduction and post-film Q&A led by directors. Twenty-five-year-old Sibel lives in a remote mountain village overlooking the Black Sea with her sister and father, the mayor. Sibel is mute, but she communicates by using an ancestral whistled language that transforms the syllables of Turkish into varied-pitch frequencies and melodic lines. Rejected by her fellow neighbors for her refusal to speak and her fierce independence, Sibel hunts the neighboring forest daily for a mythical wolf said to be frightening the villagers. In the process, she crosses paths with an injured fugitive who alters Sibel’s view of herself and the future. Sibel won awards for best film, actress, and supporting actor at 2018’s Adana Film Festival. “For hundreds of years, this whistled form of communication has been critical for the farming community in the region, allowing complex conversations over long distances and facilitating animal herding. The increasing use of mobile phones is a key threat to its survival.” —New York Times The film was released in early 2019 and it is in the final selection of the Golden Globes 👏 Friday, October 11, at 7 p.m at MFAH 🎬