The 5th Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony
“An Evening of Celebrating Cultural Diversity”

Turkish Cultural Center & Peace Islands Institute request the pleasure of your presence at the 5th Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony to applaud our distinguished honorees.

Thursday, November 16, 2017
6.30 pm

Puritan Conference & Event Center
245 Hooksett Rd
Manchester, NH 03104

Keynote Speakers
Dr. Katrina Lantos Swett
President
The Lantos Foundation for Human Rights & Justice

&

Dr. Y. Alp Aslandogan
Executive Director
Alliance of Shared Values, New York

2017 Award Recipients:

Friendship Award:
Ben Gamache
President
Gamache Enterprise

Community Service Award:
Keith Howard
Former Executive Director
Liberty House

Dialogue Award:
Becky Field
Photographer & Author

Education Award:
Christine Brennan
Deputy Commissioner
Department of Education

The Annual Friendship Dinner & Award Ceremony is the Turkish Cultural Center’s the most important social outreach event of the year. The Center is dedicated to bringing together people from diverse backgrounds. At this event, people with vastly different upbringings, heritages, cultures and histories come together and share in the common hope and faith that people can understand, accept and learn from each other. This event is a prime example of how, despite differences, people will come together when there is a common goal at hand.

Turkish Cultural Center Awards publicly recognize the outstanding achievements of those who have distinguished themselves in their profession and service to humanity in US. The awards are based on a variety of criteria and given in different areas including community service, education, leadership, philanthropy, business and friendship etc.