Ladies gathered for Coffee Night at Raindrop Turkish House in Houston.Food and Coffee were delicious more than that company was so good. (April 16,Houston,TEXAS) 

The 9th International Festival at Texas Southern University was held at the courtyard of the Jesse H. Jones School of Business on Wednesday, April 16th, 2008. The main theme of the festival this year was "Out of Africa". The festival included live music, food, fashion parade and many more other entertainments.

The chief coordinator of the event Mrs. Hughes at TSU invited Dr. Osman Nal, an assistant professor of finance, from Turkey, to open a table to exhibit Turkish culture and cuisine. Dr. Nal was helped by Dr. Ibrahim Sumer and Mr. Ahmet E. Sonmez, both researchers at the University of Houston, as well as Mr. Ibrahim and Mr. Serkan, both ESL students at Rice University. The TSU student club SIFE provided its volunteers in the table to help Turkish friends. We would like to thank these students: Mr. Floyd Griffin, Mr. Matthew Cook, Mr. Gabriel, Ms. Hagans and Ms. Connyn, among the other TSU students.

The Raindrop Turkevi graciously provided the event with handcrafts and other hand made traditional Turkish dresses, towels, headscarfs, socks, etc. The food belongs to D&R Fast food restaurant here in Houston.

Mrs. Hughes, the program coordinator, expressed her deepest regards to those who helped with the Turkey exhibits and food.

The event is every year on April and sponsored by TSU as an outstanding forum to celebrate our shared values and differences as a richness to celebrate.

Raindrop Turkish House hosted painter Belkis Topcuoglu last Saturday. She has been painting for more than thirty years and opened exhibitions in Turkey and in the United States. Visitors were able to enjoy paintings and talked to the painter about her art and adventure of traveling, photographing and painting.

We invite you to join us.Everyweek we watch matches in Turkish Super League.We don't miss European Champions League matches either.

If you are interested in play soccer.Every sunday from 8:00 am to 10:00 am we play. Location is 3015 Settlers Way Blvd Sugar Land, TX 77479.

Contact number is 713 974 1412.

Musician Cenk Kaynak, a famous baglama artist from Turkey, performed for Houstonians in Raindrop Turkish House.Moreover he made a presentation before the performance. Especially the part of the presentation about the music types and their effects on human psycology and physiology was very interesting and informing for the audiance. . The presentation was also including information abut the kinds of music and how it effects out daily life or our mind. What to listen and what not. Experiment which was conducted by Japanese scientist on water crystals was very interesting for the audience.The musician Kaynak performed with his baglama in the second half of the programme.He had a wide repertoire and played reqested ones kindly. Kaynak has ended the program with a song which was verily admired by the audience.(04/April/2008)

 Last Saturday (April 5th, 2008) University of Houston Cullen Performance Hall hosted a great event!

It was the 2nd Annual Statewide Turkish Language & Talent Olympiad.  From singing to poetry, from folk dances to talent contests there were myriads of activities that students and visitors could enjoy.

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