turkish-greek civic dialogue - AEGEE Europe
turkish-greek civic dialogue - AEGEE Europe
turkish-greek civic dialogue - AEGEE Europe
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WORKSHOPS<br />
EMPATHY-SYMPATHY<br />
THEATER OF THE OPPRESSED<br />
(M)ASK YOURSELF<br />
PEACE EDUCATION<br />
OPENING SPEECH OF<br />
ETHEMCAN TURHAN<br />
“Project Manager of Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project, Burcu Becermen,<br />
started her speech in Kayaköy with these words: “I had a dream...” Today, we<br />
are here to carry on this dream to a further reality. Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue<br />
Project is a spark of hope to build more tolerant and mutually respectful<br />
futures for us all. Being engaged in this project for more than 1,5 year now, I<br />
have the honour to announce that today we have increasing number of NGO’s<br />
carrying out joint projects from both countries. Once blinded by prejudices,<br />
today increasing number of people from both countries are trying to discover<br />
the other and have success in meeting on common grounds.”<br />
“Young people may not change the world immidiately but the truth is that<br />
youth has always been the firestarter. If this fire starts to burn in us, then we<br />
can share our excitement with the others. We know that Aegean is not enough<br />
to seperate us. Throughout this project, we sailed over the obstacles because<br />
this is what they are for.”<br />
Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’<strong>Europe</strong><br />
Final Conference<br />
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