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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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