Share The Wish II

Each year, Knoxville Turkish Cultural Center offers Turkish food delicacies, baked-goods and craft fair as a fundraising for other community organizations in need.

Trips to Turkey

Our Center organizes trips to Turkey. People who participate in these trips come from many different backgrounds, traditions and professions.

KTCC 3rd Annual Dialogue Dinner

This particular annual dinner is held every fall where approximately a hundred local community leaders, officials, academics and others gather to share their thoughts on the chosen topic of the year.

Interfaith Dialogue in Turkey By KELLY, Ashley

A little over two months ago, I went on a trip to Turkey. One of the stops on our trip was Konya, a city which was once the Seljuk capital and cultural center of Anatolia, but is now best known as the town of Rumi, an extremely important figure in Sufis all over the world. Sufism is not a sect of Islam, but rather, a broad tradition that tends to be more esoteric and places love, peace, and tolerance at the center of the practice of Islam. Every year in December, thousands of people travel to Konya for a Rumi festival, the highlight of which, for many, are performances of the Whirling Dervishes.