Istanbul Center

Istanbul Center is the largest Turkish-American organization in the southeast US. We serve metro Atlanta and the southeast, as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in 2002. We seek to build bridges between individuals of different cultural backgrounds, particularly Turkish and American. We promote the use of dialogue to proactively contribute to solving educational, cultural, environmental, social, and humanitarian issues. We do this by creating opportunities for children and adults to engage in dialogue about other cultures and their own. With outreach throughout the southeast, our major areas of concentration are education, culture, and humanitarian works. Our name comes from the nature of the city of Istanbul. Istanbul is a city where more than 15 million people with various backgrounds, languages, religions and cultures live together in peace. Istanbul's unique connectivity of Europe and Asia has allowed the city to be embellished with a richness of history and culture rarely found elsewhere in the world.

http://www.istanbulcenter.org