The role of Turkish NGO in identity conservation and generation/ The rochester case-USA

The city of Rochester, in New York, has an unofficial scattered population of 3,000 thousand Türkish immigrants. Based on its historical background and history, the United States, is introduced as a country of freedom and liberty. Another characteristic of the United States is that it isn't significantly based on old roots and also its immigrants make 99% of its population. As a result of its immigrants coming together and sharing each others customs and cultures, the United States is known to have structured a very unique culture. Due to this structure and continuous migration, immigrants begin to sway from their own values and cultures and end up melting into the American Culture.The voluntary continuation of this process presents a huge difference between the integration of Turkish people migrating to other countries and Turkish people migrating to America, and, for the generations to come, it results in almost total abandonment of cultural values, hence, leading them to melt into the American culture. In this process, because there aren't enough helpful family, social, and cultural institutions to protect Türkish identities, the religious and cultural values of the second generation has, to a significant extent, become Americanized.Ther is no study about Turkish NGO?s(Non-Governmental Organization) on protecting the original identy . New generations are having issues to recognizing their own cultural identy if they don?t go to Turkish NGO's events accordingly.This present research deals with the role of Turkish NGO in Rochester in preservation of Turkish cultural identy.Keywords: Turkish immigrants in US, Turkish NGO's, identity, migration