September 11, 2007

Merhabalar,

Association of Turkish Americans of Southern California (ATASC), a nonprofit cultural, educational, and social organization, is beginning the new year under new leadership with aspiration to expand its membership base and unite the much widespread community in Southern California.  By the end of 2008, it is our goal to reach out to the majority of the Turkish-Americans and friends of Turks living throughout Southern California.

Currently, ATASC organization has three regional chapters that service our community in Los Angeles through LATAA, in Orange County through OCTAA, and in San Diego region through ATASC-San Diego as well as a philanthropic organization, TALL, which includes members from many regions in Southern California.  Through the establishment of these chapter organizations, we have been able to reach out to nearly 700+ current members in these areas.  Collectively, ATASC and its chapters have been able to organize nearly 100 social, educational, and charitable events throughout Southern California during the past 2-3 years enjoyed by many of our community members.   Through our organizations efforts, we have been able to donate thousands of dollars to local charities as well as to schools and educational projects in our homeland Turkey.

Does forming new chapters mean ATASC is weakening or breaking apart?

We believe that fostering chapters in new and needed areas will benefit the greater Turkish-American community by organizing events near where large groups of Turkish-Americans live.  This will allow our community members to take part in many cultural, social, educational, and charitable activities in their areas while connecting all of our chapters under a single vision provided by the central organization ATASC.  Thus, we will achieve a unified Turkish-American community spread throughout a large geographical area.

We would like to encourage the establishment of new regional chapters which can service the special needs of our communities in Santa Barbara, Ventura, Simi Valley, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Inland Empire or wherever a strong coalition of Turks is needed.  We invite leaders from these areas to form a wider membership network which will benefit our greater community.

The central organization, ATASC, will provide communication, accounting services, liability insurance for events and activities, and tax preparation services for our component organizations.  We intend to respond to your specific needs and guide you through the documentation process to successfully form the chapter organizations.  It is our goal to make sure that each chapter operates smoothly and in a uniform manner by providing close communications between all chapters and proper documentation.

We look forward to hearing from you with your ideas to expand into areas where we currently have no representation.  Please contact me directly if you are interested in taking leadership in your respective areas to establish a new ATASC Chapter.  I can be reached through my e-mail at president@atasc.org or via our website at http://atasc.org/contact.htm.

Sevgi ve Saygilarimla,
Ahmet Atahan
ATASC President & Chairman 07-08

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