Selected Events 2007
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| (from left:) Nuray Inöntepe, Deputy Turkish Consul General in Duesseldorf, U.S. Consul General Matt Boyse, Moenchengladbach Integration Commissioner Guelistan Yueksel, and Moenchengladbach Lord Mayor Norbert Bude. |
October 04, 2007.
The Moenchengladbach Integration Council, together with Diyanet, the Turkish-Islamic Cultural Association, the Islamic Center, the Arrahman Mosque Association, and the Association for Afghan Cultural Development, hosted an Iftar dinner on October 4, attended by some 500 persons from politics, business, religion, and numerous ethnic communities from the city and surrounding area. The moving force behind the event was Guelistan Yueksel, who chairs the Moenchengladbach Integration Council. Consul General Matt Boyse, who was spontaneously asked to give a "Grusswort" following Lord Mayor Norbert Bude (SPD), spoke about President Bush’s tradition of hosting Iftar dinners at the White House, the Ambassador’s hosting of Iftar evenings at his residence in Berlin and around Germany, including September 25 in Cologne.
