{"id":31476,"date":"2011-03-25T20:03:18","date_gmt":"2011-03-25T18:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishforum.com.tr\/en\/content\/?p=31476"},"modified":"2014-01-06T01:14:11","modified_gmt":"2014-01-05T23:14:11","slug":"u-s-paper-names-turkish-festival-as-best-festival-in-washington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2011\/03\/25\/u-s-paper-names-turkish-festival-as-best-festival-in-washington\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Paper Names Turkish Festival As “Best Festival” in Washington"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual “Turkish Festival” held in Washington has been selected by a local newspaper the “Best Festival” organized in the U.S. capital city.<\/p>\n

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The Turkish Festival, which is organized by the American Turkish Association of Washington D.C. (ATA-DC) every year, has been selected the “Best Festival” in the Readers’ Poll of Washington City Paper.<\/p>\n

With such success, the Turkish Festival left behind the U.S. capital’s most famous festivity, the annual Cherry Festival.<\/p>\n

The mission of the Turkish Festival is to promote Turkey and its rich and diverse culture in the U.S capital, and to build a bridge of friendship between the Turks and Americans through cultural education and understanding.<\/p>\n

The festival offers a full day of free activities that range from lively folk dancing and musical performances to arts and crafts activities for children and adults. Visitors also enjoy other much-loved aspects of Turkey such as its delicious cuisine, tradition of coffee fortune reading, and bustling Bazaar.<\/p>\n

The annual Turkish Festival is ATA-DC’s flagship activity.<\/p>\n

Established in 1965, ATA-DC’s mission is to foster friendship between the people of Turkey and the United States; to raise the public knowledge level and understanding of Turkish culture and history in the community; and to help Turkish Americans preserve their culture in the United States.<\/p>\n

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The annual “Turkish Festival” held in Washington has been selected by a local newspaper the “Best Festival” organized in the U.S. capital city. The Turkish Festival, which is organized by the American Turkish Association of Washington D.C. (ATA-DC) every year, has been selected the “Best Festival” in the Readers’ Poll of Washington City Paper. With […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":31478,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[5159],"class_list":["post-31476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa","tag-ata-dc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}