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32 TURKISH-GREEK CIVIC DIALOGUE “REBUILDING COMMUNICATION” IN SAKARYA 20-22 MARCH 2003 FROM THE DIARY OF CARETTA CARETTA The official launching event of the Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue project, “Rebuilding Communication” Conference took place in Sakarya between 20-23 March 2003 in partnership with AEGEE-Ankara and AEGEE-Sakarya and in participation with app. 100 university students from Greece and Turkey, coinciding with the date when war on Iraq started. It was particularly significant for youth to come together and discuss how to enhance peace in such a historical day, in the middle of a war. Former Minister of Foreign Affairs İsmail Cem, Sakarya University President Mehmet Durman, Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project Manager Burcu Becermen and AEGEE-Sakarya President Gülümser Çakır rendered the opening speeches, while the ENKA College student choir colored the event and penetrated the hearts of the participants with their Turkish and Greek songs. The conference, which was organized in the form of panel sessions and workshops, was the first ever international event taking place in the city of Sakarya. The conference also hosted quite high-profile speakers and experienced workshop leaders as well as various NGOs that found the chance to have their project presentations. As a result of this 3-day conference, a declaration condemning the war on Iraq was prepared in cooperation with all the participants and was sent to various press and media agencies. We thought a Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue project should start with the theme communication. Why do we need to communicate, how is the communication between Turkey and Greece developed over the years, do we really communicate or willing to do so? We decided that we first need to learn the basics of communication and to have a short overview of current communication between Greek and Turkish citizens, NGOs and governments to take further steps in the project. We also decided to organise this conference on communication in Sakarya, Adapazarı as a very symbolic place, which suffered badly from the saddening earthquake in 1999 and 2000 and which later on played a meaningful role in bringing Turkish and Greek citizens together to jointly work to recover from the impact of the natural disaster. The conference enjoyed the support of Sakarya Municipality, Sakarya University, Adapazarı Chamber of Commerce as well as ENKA College, therefore successfully involved local community, primary school students and local authorities into the project. The conference was the first ever organisation experience of AEGEE-Sakarya on their first anniversary. The project coordination team did a great job in organising the conference and gained important organisational and soft skills, as the Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue project team as well as former AEGEE- Ankara members provided extensive assistance and training to this newly established AEGEE local on the occasion of the project. The conference will be unforgettable not only to the beautiful lodging place by the lake at the university, but its weather conditions and the heavy snow, which prevented some of our speakers getting stuck on the way. Both the snowy weather and the US-led operation on Iraq made our speakers and in particular confirmed journalists cancel their participation in the last minute. There were far less Greek participants then expected, which resulted in unbalanced distribution of Turkish and Greek participants. The fact that all the Greek participants were almost AEGEE members from Greece apart from youth section of a Greek municipality, we had a lot of discussions on the promotion of the project among Greek youth for the further stages of the project during the evaluation session. Still this fact didn’t obstruct the initial aim of the conference, and the participants’ not only discussed ways of better communication between the two communities, but also happily played snow ball, had guitar and singing sessions during the evening at the dormitories and integrating with each other. Most of the conference participants are today very active in youth and the EU field and working at quite reputable NGOs and institutions in Greece, Turkey and abroad. Rebuilding Communication Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
Hercules Millas, our speaker and a strong project supporter, conquered the hearts of young people with his arguments, criticism and jokes about identity and democracy problems. Participants also enjoyed a basic introduction to Turkish-Greek relations, education and history text-books, communication between Turkish and Greek communities before the earthquakes and the achievements afterwards. They mostly discussed and themselves discovered the power of young people in this issue, and they produced interesting project ideas via creative collage work as well as public achievement techniques. Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe Mailing list of the event “Rebuilding Communication” (in English) for conference participants and speakers: tr_gr@yahoogroups.com ........................................................................................................... Gülümser Çakır Conference Coordinator, Former President of AEGEE-Sakarya The primary conference on “Rebuilding Communication” between our two nations rightly draws attention to the paramount importance of communication. Our aim is to be a starting point to overcome lack of communication between NGOs, provide them with a platform where they can share their opinions with each other and further this communication event. As you will also read in the reports presented, people find to know each other closer. Therefore, I believe that this has helped them to give up their prejudices about each other. I reflect and feel this since all people who worked for this event and participants proved this challenge. Despite the cold winter weather and different difficulties, participants were together until the end and remembered to be human before anything. I believe, this project became one of the peace bridge bases between Turkish-Greek friendship. I would also like to emphasise that, our decisiveness to continue to look for peaceful solution under the difficult conditions, especially under the shadow of the Iraq war, nearby marked this conference even more valuable. All participants together prepared a declaration against this war. This shows how both sides worried for other people. Hence, this showed us that the important point that we are all human before anything else in the world one more. I guess that we (including participants) had good friendships. Sharing experiences and starting to listen each other have opened new views in our minds. Rebuilding Communication 33
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