2009 Photo Galleries
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Embassy DCM Douglas Silliman Visited Izmir
October 13-14, 2009 - Douglas Silliman, the Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) at the US Embassy in Ankara, visited Izmir from October 13-14, 2009. DCM Silliman arrived in Izmir three months following Ambassador James Jeffrey’s visit to the city to inaugurate the US Embassy’s Virtual Presence Post (VPP) website. ...
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Ambassador Jeffrey Visits Award-Winning Excavation Site.
July 17, 2009 - Ambassador James Jeffrey traveled to Kerkenes Mountain, in Yozgat, to visit the winners of a 2009 Ambassador's Fund for Cultural Preservation grant. The grant will support the work of a team of archaeologists from the Middle East Technical University who are excavating the environs of an exceptional Iron Age city gate to ancient Kerkenes...
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The Brian Horton Quartet
June 5, 2009 - The US jazz group The Brian Horton Quartet will give its final Ankara performance at Panora Park on Friday, June 5 at 8 pm. The Durham, North Carolina-based group is sponsored by The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad, a program produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
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Secretary Clinton Visits Ankara
March 7, 2009 - Secretary Hillary Clinton paid a visit to Ankara on March 7. During her visit, she met with Turkish officials and visited a popular NTV talk show. In an interview at the end of her busy day, she said of the Turkish-American relationship, “We have been good allies in NATO…And we have been friends.”
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Jno Didrikson’s Tlingit Artwork Exhibit
February 17, 2009 - U.S. Deputy Chief of Mission Douglas Silliman opened the U.S. Embassy-sponsored exhibit of Native American art by Jno Didrickson, February 17 at the Turkish American Association in Ankara.
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Ambassador Jeffrey Visits Turkish American Association’s Antalya Office
January 31, 2009 - Noting President Obama’s message to NATO Allies on Inauguration Day, Ambassador James Jeffrey underscored the importance the U.S. attaches to NATO and the desire to renew the Alliance in his address on January 31 at the 17th Antalya International Conference on Security & Cooperation.During his January 31 visit to the newly opened TAA.
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Ambassador Jeffrey Visits Sakarya Memorial
January 17, 2009 - Ambassador James Jeffrey visited the memorials to the great battle of Sakarya, west of Ankara. This epic battle, fought for 21 days in August & September 1921 along a 100 kilometer front near the Sakarya River, marked the turning point in the Turkish War of Independence & prevented the Greek army from advancing on the new Turkish capital of Ankara.