Selected Events 2007

March 24, 2007
The Uyghur community celebrated its Nowruz New Year's festival with an evening of music, dance, song and comedy at the Kulturhaus Milbertshofen in Munich. Among the invited guests was Patricia Guy, the U.S. Consulate's Consul for Public Affairs and acting Consul General. Nowruz means "new day" and marks the start of the Uyghur new year. It commemorates the victory of the good over the bad, joy over sadness, life over death and warmth over cold. Nowruz is also celebrated by the Turks, Kurds, Persians, Afghans, Uzbeks, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz and Turkmen. The East Turkistan Union in Europe and the World Uyghur Congress based in Munich hosted the Saturday celebration.