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| Charter Schools managed by Gulen followers participate in Turkish Olympiad. Nothing more ridiculous than seeing African Americans in Turkish Costumes. |
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| Turkish Olympaid with participants from Gulen managed Charter Schools. Nothing like seeing African American students dressed in Turkish costumes.
11th
international Turkish Olympiads
With
pre-qualifying rounds the 11th international Turkish Olympiads has been held in
America as well as all over the World.
The
Turkish Olympiad hosted 130 students from 15 schools in the northeast region,
winners will represent the region in the Olympiads which will be held in
Istanbul.
The
Turkish Olympiad was organized at Monclair State University and mainly
sponsored by the Turkish Cultural Center. Students who participated were from 9
different states between the ages 12 and 18 years old and competed in singing,
poetry and cultural folk dance. Students showed their signing skills not only
in Turkish but also in Chinese, Spanish and English. The program opened with
the American National Anthem and Turkish National Anthem. The Opening speech
was done by President of TCC Oguzhan Senturk. He thanked all the teachers and
who contributed to the Turkish Olympiad, he said, “expects to win this year’s
Turkish Olympiad which will be held in Turkey.
In the
competition, teams of Turkish and American students, performanced on cultural
folk dance of Bilecek and the Giresun region. Amity School Brooklyn took first
place with the Bilecek cultural folk dance.The Paterson School took second
place with the Giresun cultural folk dance and the Bergen School took third
place. The amphitheater was so packed up that the audience was singing along
with the contestants.
The
Categoriesof singing in Turkish, Liann Aris who is student at Amity School took
first place, she sang “Hor Görme Garibi(Don’t despise poor by Orhan Gencebay)”.
She will represent her region in the Turkish Olympiad. Sevili Muminzhanova who
is student at James Madison High School took second place with singing “Gunun
Birinde (One day)” and finally Alexander Harris who is student at Central
Jersey School took third place, he Sang “Hakim Bey (Mister Judge)”. The
Audience enjoyed the wonderful musical performance and also a group of students
danced with the rhythm of Kemence, which was applauded for a long period of
time.
The
Students’ performance in reciting verbatim poems amazed the audience in the
category of poetry recitation in Turkish. Elizabeth Bowman who is student at
Liberty High School took first place; she recited “Baglanmayacaksin by Can
Yucel”. Mariam Quraishi who is student at Amity School Brooklyn took second
place, she recited “Merhaba (Hello)” and finally Shannon Grierson who is
student at Paterson School took third place, she recited “Istanbul’u dinliyorum
(Listening Istanbul)”.
Category
of singing in English, Nathanail Paige who is student at Central Jersey School
took first place. She sang Diamonds by Rihanna. And her performance was
praiseworthy. Zehra Abacioglu who is student at Amity School Brooklyn took
second place. And Tatiana Hernandez who is student at Bergen School took third
place.
Category
of singing in Spanish, Suzan Akpinar who is student at Amity School Brooklyn
took first place, she sang Poromporompero. Tess Kamuanga who is student at
Pioneer Charter School took second place and Alexander Harris who is student at
Central Jersey School took third place.
Category
of Singing in Chinese, Emma Riglin who is student at Young Scholars of Central
Jersey School took first place and Nicholas Hausler from Central Jersey School
took second place.
Category
of Poetry in Native Language, Gulnur Avci from Amity school Brooklyn took first
place, Leyla Ulusoy from Pioneer School took second place and Hacer Kok from
Bergen School took third place.
Winning
students of the contest will be rewarded on May 4th, 2013 at Pace
University in Manhattan.
GULEN WEB SITES THAT SPEAK ABOUT THE TURKISH OLYMPIADS
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-283876-gulen-says-success-of-turkish-olympiad-belongs-to-nation.html
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