turkish-greek civic dialogue - AEGEE Europe

WORKING PROGRAMME
Organisation of rotating series of activities in Greece and Turkey on the dates
of 17 August and 9 September every year.
1. Formation of the organisation committee and NGOs to be included
in the organisation. A preliminary meeting should be organised by
AEGEE
2. Outreaching the families who lost their relatives in the earthquake
in the regions Turkish and Greek search & rescue teams worked in
the other side, to determine a first meeting day
3. Contacting the persons and the institutions that were included in
helping the activities at both sides
4. Organisation of a meeting for the NGOs that are making studies to
minimise the harms caused by the disasters
5. Organisation of a remembrance forest activity every year in the
disaster regions for the memory of lost people
6. Organisation of a symposium on a topic that will support the
friendship activities
7. Establishment of a structure that will serve like a statue. It may
be a kindergarten and it may include some free places for children
to write something, draw pictures or make figures with painted
hands
8. Culture-Art organisations and exhibitions
9. Studies on the problems of disaster regions
10. Psychological studies on children of earthquake regions
11. A short-film competition on the topic
12. Designation of projects on joint preparation for potential natural
disasters
PROJECT PARTNERS
Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Local Administrations, Bosphorus University
Kandilli Observation Station, Non-governmental organisations (Greek Red
Cross, Samaritans, Turkish Red Crescent, AKUT, Federation of Search-Rescue
Associations, Turkish Psychological Association, Civil Coordination Association
Against Disasters)
Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
2. YOUTH’S ROLE IN
TURKISH-GREEK FRIENDSHIP
.............................................................................................................. Dijan Albayrak
workshop leader
In the course of Youth’s Role in Turkish-Greek Friendship Workshop, the
participants stimulated discussions on youth synergy and how to utilize from
this synergy to contribute in the Turkish-Greek dialogue through partnership
projects. The workshop leader presented some conflict resolution cases to the
participants in groups and let them to have fruitful discussions for settlement.
Discussions finally focused on the possible projects to be put into practice
and there were discussions to develop projects in the field of youth. The
projects that the workshop participants prepared were presented before the
conference together with the special posters and other promotion materials
they designed.
As a first step, workshop leader wanted participants to reflect their thoughts
and expectations -good and bad- about the workshop by drawing clothes and
writing sentences reflecting their feelings on these clothes. By being stuck
to the wall, the clothes were displayed to all of the participants. After this
work, participants were divided into two groups workshop leader gave them
two cases. The first case included pollution of sea, government, NGO activists
and a ship owner. The second one included population exchange of two
countries. Workshop leader wanted participants to create scenarios of crisis,
which will be about the two given cases. Following the groups simulated their
scenarios, at the end of each performance, there was a discussion session in
which the players talked about what they wanted to tell with their scenarios
and the others talked about what they understood from the play. Following
this discussion session, participants had another discussion about functions of
NGO’s, their role in creating public awareness and action. In addition to that
participants talked about the perspective of both the Greek and Turkish society
to NGO’s. Afterwards, all the participants were asked to determine a topic
that she/he would like to discuss and write it on a paper. The papers were
stuck on the wall and each participant had the chance to form a group and
discuss his/her topic among the volunteers. By doing this work, everyone could
exchange their thoughts and learn more about the topics they are interested
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