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INVITATION: You are Invited to an Educational Workshop on October 28th, 2007

Dear members of the Turkish-American Community,

As the 2008 Presidential Elections are approaching, we have organized a workshop in San Francisco to go over and discuss how to get better involved with the political system in the U.S that will be led by Mr. G. Lincoln McCurdy. Turkish American Alliance for Fairness (TAAF) and Turkish American Association of California (TAAC) are co-sponsoring this educational event.

We are very lucky to have Mr. McCurdy to lead the workshop, who is the President of Turkish Coalition of America (TCA). He has over 30 years of experience in both U.S. government service and private sector, and led trade/investment missions and U.S. congressional delegations to Turkey. In this workshop, Mr. McCurdy will discuss the importance and "how-to"s of getting involved with the system, as well as the status of various congressional issues that impact our community. Similar workshops were held in Detroit, Washington, D.C. and Dallas, generating quite an excitement and successful results.

WHERE:
SF State University-Main Campus
Richmond room-Towers Conference Center
800 Font Blvd., San Francisco, CA 94132

WHEN:
October 28th, 2007, Sunday. Starts at 1pm

COST: Free, sponsored by TAAF and TAAC

RSVP:
** Please RSVP (send email to h_ulubay@yahoo.com) so that we can coordinate right amount of afternoon snacks and drinks. We hope that you join us and support our community. Please forward this invitation to your friends, the more the merrier.

Haluk Ulubay - President, TAAF
Ilkcan Cokgor - President, TAAC

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WHO IS G. LINCOLN McCURDY?
G. Lincoln McCurdy has over 30 years of leadership and management experience in both U.S. government service and the private sector. He has extensive experience in dealing with bi-national boards; working with senior officials of the governments and military of the United States and Turkey; leading trade/investment missions and U.S. congressional delegations to Turkey; co-sponsoring activities with the State and Commerce Departments, Environmental Protection Agency, Smithsonian Institute and National Public Radio; and fundraising. Mr. McCurdy served in the American Consulate General in Istanbul as the Consul for Commercial Affairs, 1980  1984. In this capacity, he received the Department of State's Meritorious Honor Award for "re-establishing American pre-eminence in the Istanbul International Business Community."

TAAF still would like to believe that common sense will prevail at the end of the day and HR.106 will either not reach the House floor, or be voted down.