Istanbul, Turkey – April 2024 - Salesian Stephen K.L. Koso made his perpetual religious profession during a solemn Mass celebrated by Fr Reinhard Gesing, SDB, Superior of the Salesian Province of Germany (GER) . The celebration took place on Saturday 6 April in the church of Notre Dame de Lourdes in the Bomonti district of Istanbul, run by the Salesians. The ceremony was attended by numerous religious from various communities, children and young people, as well as collaborators of the Salesian projects in the metropolis on the Bosphorus. The Apostolic Vicar of Istanbul, Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro, was present as a guest of honour. The Salesians of Don Bosco have been in the Bomonti district since 1903 and the Salesian presence in Turkey, belonging to the GER Province, carries out numerous educational activities through elementary and middle school, the oratory and youth centre, and apostolate activities among refugees and immigrants. In addition, the Salesian Cooperators and ADMA have a centre.