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I am delighted to invite you to the 45th Society of University Neurosurgeons meeting to be held in Istanbul on June 23-26, 2011. In the shadows of the Ottoman Empire and among the Byzantine Ruins, we will be immersed in the only city that is home to two continents and is a literal crossroads between Europe and Asia. On a historical note, Julius Caesar first proclaimed his celebrated words, ‘Veni, Vidi, Vici,’ – ‘I came, I saw, I conquered,’ in Turkey when he defeated Pontus in the Black Sea region of Turkey. Homer was born in the city of Izmir, and Alexander the Great cut the famous Gordion Knot in the Phrygian capital, not far from Ankara.
The theme of this meeting will be International Neurosurgery, and will serve as a colloquium for intellectual discourse between distant neurosurgical centers. Be it the dashing leadership of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk at Gallipoli or the poetry of Rumi’s whirling dervishes, it will be a trip through history, with an after-meeting tour to Ephesus. Our local host, Dr. Yücel Kanpolat, who is also the President of the Turkish Academy of Science, has set up a delightful program with participation from the talented schools of neurosurgery in Turkey and our secretary, Dr. Sander Connolly, is helping us with the planning of what promises to be a grand neurosurgical odyssey. Additionally, we are delighted to announce that the Hellenic Neurosurgical Society in Athens has decided to host us with Professors Vassilis Varsos and Kostas Fountas in Athens for a day. Visiting the city of the cradle of ancient Greek civilization along with the new Acropolis museum will be a wonderful addition. We hope the grace of Zeus and Athena will entice you to join us. As they say in Louisiana, “laissez le bon temp rouler!” and so we invite you to Istanbul, the capital of three great empires – Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman – as well as Athens and Ephesus.
Sincerely,
Anil Nanda, M.D.
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