Bobby Gates

Mary Boby Gates, social worker from Washington DC, shares her impressions from her trip to Turkey. She highlights the love and connection she experienced as ” My treasured moments would be how we connected with people that are not part of the trip. This is not staged, this is reality.…

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Francine Cabral

  My name is Francine Cabral and I am a marketing director and community liaison for Whole Foods Markets in Northern Virginia. I have to say this has been a very wonderful experience. I did not know very much about the Rumi Forum, except for a Turkish cooking class I…

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Rev. Kathleen Kline Chesson

  I am senior pastor of First Christian Church, Fall Church, Virginia. This tour has been wonderful in so many ways, and I have been exhausted by all that we have done, little tired, umm, but at many different levels it’s been very powerful. First from the historical level, for…

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Yahya Hendi

At his visit to Fatih University in Istanbul, Turkey, Imam Yahya Hendi, the muslim chaplain at Georgetown University, shares his thoughts about Gulen Movement. Looking at the flags of the US, Turkey and Fatih University, Imam Hendi states “I hope that this university and the movement behind it, will become…

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