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178 YES. If they say NO, they will realise that there will be a price. If they realise that they will have to pay for the price, then they will say YES. SONAY KANBER, participant, METU - international relations:”You have said that the young people should pressurise the governmental authorities. In theoritical terms, we know that we have to do this in a way. We have been discussing over issues since yesterday. On the other hand, we don’t know how to do it, how to realise it in practical terms. I will like to ask you about your suggestions of what to do.” NUR BATUR: “In European societies and in America, the best way to do is to start a letter campaign on an issue. One of your colleagues over there already mentioned that they are going to put their pressure on Mr. Alemdaroğlu, which is the most democratic approach and reaction. A letter and e-mail campaign. If you can collect one million or five hundred thousand letters to the Ministry of Education in both sides to change the education systems, the history textbooks, which are on the table for the last 20 years but could not be changed. I think this will effect and be a big pressure not only on Ministers of Education but also the Prime Ministers as well.” VANGELIS KECHRIOTIS, workshop leader, Bosphorus University “I would like to thank Nur Batur for her intervention. During the last four years, I have been living in Istanbul and Athens so that i could closely follow the discussions about Cyprus issue from both sides. You are right and i agree that there have been very harsh and vivid discussions in Turkey during the last one year and half, but i could see the same happening in Greece as well. Especially from autumn 2002 when the first Annan plan was publicised, i was following the newspapers, TV programmes and documentaries; there have been discussions about it. Probably for the first time the Greek public has been informed very systematically about 1963 and 1974. Then it became obvious for both sides and within both sides both for all moderates and for pure nationalists that Cyprus problem did not start in 1974 but it started long ago. In this sense, I wouldn’t really agree with your point that Greek public opinion has only 20 days or one month to compromise or to develop a consciousness of compromise towards the Other side. This will be a procedure developing in a parallel way as happened the last one and half years. Hopefully, this will end in a constructive manner from both sides, but this has been a debate and a game if you like, do you remember in the beginning it was Greek side which was going against the plan and the Turkish side which was not. I am not talking now about who is right who is wrong. I say we have had developments in the two years and we are approaching more and more to conclude the problems. I am saying that compromise, confidence and trust are the key terms. I trust the people who trust me and i would like to also trust people who do not trust me, but this is something as you mentioned needs a lot of time. This is one of the projects contributing to that aim. We have all these wonderful people we met here and I am sure they will contribute to this purpose.” GIORGOS MAVROMMATIS: “Small comment about the books, the school text-books. In Greece we did a step; we changed some things, we revised the history text-books. However it didn’t work out because the teachers would only teach what they knew and what they believed in. I don’t know how it is in Turkey. It’s impossible to write a common history book because of the identity as it’s built and one of the basis of the identity is the opposition to “the Other”. So we need one “Other”. Maybe one day we can together write that Greeks and Turks are against China or maybe the Martians, then it will be fine. But at the moment I dont think that we have the tools. ASSESSMENT OF THE TURKISH- GREEK CIVIC DIALOGUE BY NGO REPRESENTATIVES FOTINI PAPADOPOULOU: “I would like to thank AEGEE-Ankara for inviting us to the Final Conference of the Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue project. We are members of an NGO representative of Kinotita Bosporos. It’s a youth NGO existing in Turkey, Greece, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Romania, Serbia, Bosnia, Albania and FYROM. Our aim is to bring peace by bringing young people together and ensuring dialogue and direct contact. We participated in KayaFest thanks to Turkish Bosporus-Gesellschaft. We didn’t have the chance to see the Final Conference Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
workshops because we only participated in the NGO fair. Therefore we will talk about our experience and how it was for us. KATERINA PAPAZI: “In terms of participation, some NGOs would bring their materials and exchange information about what we are doing, how we are doing and creating networks and cooperating for the future as it was aimed by AEGEE. It was very great chance for us to present our projects and to get to know some other NGOs. I was really to expecting some more NGOs to accept this nice invitation for participation, but I think this is a general problem. It’s the lack of networking of NGOs both in Greece and in Turkey. I think that BOSPORUS and AEGEE should play active role in reinforcing this network. The NGO fair could have accommodated much more things; actually it already had many things inside. There were so many NGOs could have participated. I think that also again as a proposal it could have been a bit more advertised. It was a very big change for us as BOSPORUS to meet other NGOs. I think the place, the cultural activities taking place was very important for us. We didn’t participate in the workshops but at the end we saw their results; we saw the participants were able to create something on their own. We saw 25- 30 musicians on the stage together singing and playing in Turkish and Greek. Workshops from dancing and creating things altogether this was the strongest point of the KayaFest. I think in the future these things can be done easily; all we need a strong network of NGOs. This is something we have to work for. FOTINI PAPADOPOULOU: For us it was an amazing and extraordinary opportunity to be there, it was great to see both sides. Greek people from Nea Makri from Greece turning back to the place where their ancestors lived, this is something that can lead us to the future. WWW.BOSPORUS.ORG Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe NECMETTIN YEMIŞ YOUTH AND CHILDREN REAUTONOMY FOUNDATION www.tcyov.org We are from Youth and Children Reautonomy Foundation of Turkey and we are going to tell you a little bit about our experience with the Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue project and a little bit about our background. We are an NGO mainly carrying out activities in the field of children and we are cooperating with the Ministry of Justice. I will tell you the whole story how we happened to get to know this project and prior to that I would like to tell you about my memories and my Greek background. Actually I am from Black Sea region, from Trabzon. Some years ago we came together with Greek friends in a camp in Black Sea in Trabzon. At the first sight, we didn’t like each other at all; we were looking at each other very harshly. We had some language problems in communicating in English and we had some prejudices about each other. As the days passed by, they asked some water from us and we gave them of course. Then the same with the food, we had to cooperate somehow. By the way we still have our small reservations about Greeks in our minds. On the third day we really started to in-depth discussions with them. And then finally on the fifth day, we became close friends and we started together a camp on Kaçkar Mountains for 15 days. At that time I could have my broad ideas and opinions; however prior to this recognition I have had the opposite ideas about Greeks. We are still in contact with them we have been writing letters to each other for more than five years. Talking about KayaFest Youth and Culture Festival, actually i have to confess that we didn’t expect it to be such a success. We met with friends, NGOs from Greece at the NGO fair took place within the festival; they exchanged their contact addresses so as to designate and organise partnership projects in the future. We were present at the NGO fair with 12 children from our Foundation, so we couldn’t have actually that much time to catch up with the other activities going on under the festival. However, in the background we had a lot of fun and we did many many things you can witness from here when Final Conference 179
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GREETINGS
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Hereby we would like to present the
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about common affairs is the most im
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academicians, university students,
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