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PRESS MIRROR
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project found large-scale publicity in Turkish,
Greek and European media; the objectives, activities and results of this Project
have been conveyed to a massive target group. We have used various materials
such as press releases, articles by speakers and academics, leaflets, posters,
bookmarks, stickers, photos, videos, documentaries and we took part and
coverage at newspapers, TV and radio stations, at forums, fairs and general
assemblies, online web portals and mailing lists, electronic newsletters.
We wrote many articles and press releases about each and every event under
the project were published in many student and youth magazines as well as
online youth portals in English, Greek and Turkish. A quick search on internet
portals will provide you thousands of links to our Project.
AEGEE-Europe publications being distributed to external partners of AEGEE-
Europe including European wide companies, foundations and various departments
of European institutions as well as the whole network of AEGEE comprised of
15000 young Europeans, received constant information regarding the Project
through Key to Europe, News Bulletin and AEGEE Gazette publications. AEGEE
TV and General Assemblies of AEGEE-Europe also portrayed a visual gallery
including the documentaries of the Project available to Europe.
Civil Society Development Programme NGO Support Team established by the
European Commission Representation to Turkey also provided enormous support
in terms of visibility as well as European Youth Forum, UNITED – Intercultural
Action Against Racism through their e-newsletters and campaign actions.
NGO fairs organised by GSM (Youth Services Center) every year in Ankara
was also another opportunity to spread our project across European youth
organisations.
We paid special attention to make sure that or Project is reaching to university
students as the main target group. Therefore we cooperated with universities
and their student clubs in Greece and Turkey especially METU. The results,
movies, the work of arts of participants were exhibited at the Middle East
Technical University in Ankara and during a student festival at the University
of Piraeus in Greece.
Most important coverage was of course the newspapers: Radikal, Hürriyet,
Cumhuriyet, Milliyet, Akşam, Turkish Daily News as well as locals newspapers
of Fethiye, Adapazarı gave a wide coverage to the Project, creating a direct
local community impact. In Greece, thanks to our friends and supporters, many
articles appeared in student and youth magazines as well as newspapers such
as Apofasi. Various thematic magazines such as photography magazines in
Greece and Turkey and PostExpress in Turkey published articles on the project.
Music magazines and musicians were also promoting the Project through their
own initiatives in their countries.
We were also on TV, especially CNN Turk, NTV, TRT and ERT (national TV stations
of Greece and Turkey). EOT, Hellenic Tourism Organisation also assisted us
promoting the overall Project in Greece.
We published several issues of electronic newsletters of the Project including
various articles from Project participants, artists, academics and NGOs, which
was made available on line through the website of the Project. We sent this
e-newsletter to various mailing lists and also distributed through the European
Youth Forum.
Through all the above mentioned efforts, an immense multiplier effect was
created. The Project did not only outreach to its programme participants,
speakers and Project members which total 3500; we also reached AEGEE
network, NGOs in Greece and Turkey, emigrants and exchangees, villagers,
local and governmental authorities, normal citizens.
All the Project press releases, Project newsletters, all the website links
mentioning our Project, all the above mentioned documentaries, photos and
other promotion materials that can also be useful for you is available at the
official web site of the Project.
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