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90 story of “Lütfiye Nine” about Kayaköy, about the Greeks, about her feelings. They also allocated some time to the assessment of the overall workshop and noted down the pros and cons of the workshop. On the last day of the festival, the participants and the workshop leader made a presentation on the outcomes of the workshop at the Poseidon Café. from workshop participants: things I liked about the workshop Knowledge Integrating theory with daily life Examples from daily life Discussing ideas Expressing feelings Learning about others’ culture Being aware of similarities (karpuzi) & differences (taking off shoes in homes) Making fun & laughing without teasing Feeling intense emotions all together (Grandma Lütfiye) Home-made food Support of Cenk & Selin, our workshop assistants Motivation to be together, spend time, swim, eat, dance Great group cohesion Hope for future Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Thinking about changes we can accomplish together & individually!!! EVALUATION OF PSYCHOLOGY WORKSHOP by WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS August 2, 2003 “I had a precious experience. Coming here is something beyond human relationships and Greek-Turkish relationships. It is about living and feeling the getting together of people. The happy, moving and awkward moments of this process. I feel useful and happy with that experience. It takes greater guts to do that than to talk about differences and fight. It’s more difficult but it is worth it.” “The workshop Kicks Ass!!! To make a change is usually an unpleasant - or even really painful -experience. I never thought that changing all the unhappy propaganda I grew up with would be so enjoyable.” “To learn, to act, to have fun…” “The most important is the close contact I had with people of both Turkish and Greek origin. Within 6 days I feel them closer to me than people I know for years. We saw OUR ability to transform the conflict between the two countries, which have existed for centuries mainly due to the two governments and their idiotic practices. This was my first contact with people from Turkey and my first discussions about the “Greek-Turkish” relationships with people from this country. Now I believe it is so important for me to continue my involvement in this issue and actually to be active in initiating some actions when I go back to my home country. “I never thought that I would actually feel the need to do so.” “I always believed that borders cannot impose any boundaries on people’s mind.” “Learning, sharing and liking... These may be the key words of this workshop. We did not meet only 15 people, but also their brains and hearts. It was so nice to realize that we have many common things. The most intense feeling that I experienced during this week was peace! I learned so many things from everybody, but that is not enough. This is not the end of our workshop; this is just a beginning. Yes, IT FEELS RIGHT!!!” KayaFest Youth and Culture Festival Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe
“This workshop showed us how good and powerful things we can do if we really want to. We found opportunity to ask questions to get to know each other more closely. We found similarities just behind differences.” “I feel free and different because I managed to realise that the two persons are very similar in comparison to what I was made to think and believe for 20 years. I strongly believe that the psychology workshop created something; it put a brick on the wall between people and naive governmental interests. I realise how fooled are not only Greeks but Turks also for many decades. I feel that our flame will get stronger and stronger through time until our huge fire can be able to burn all lies, conflicts, nationalism and borders geographically and mentally. I will come again.” “I have learnt A LOT about SOUTH PARK. This was beyond a workshop, like a friends’ meeting. I felt as if I had known all these people for years. “We” have a lot to do and “will” I am sure. It was a great experience to see such an old woman and feel the same feelings with some crying eyes. The meal, dance in the “kahve”, the Greek-Turkish halay… We shared the same place, time and feelings. We had also a limited time here, but our relationship especially friendship will exist in our minds while we are living. I will never forget the memories in Kayakoy and 12 friends of mine.” “I was surprised to find out that I was not jealous of the other participants who visited other places, while we were attending the workshop” “The most important thing is that we met each other with respect. We learned that being an individual is much more important than describing you as a part of a society. This is the first time that I have known people from abroad therefore it is hard to communicate or tell something for me because I have no practice before.” Serdar & “workshoppers” (this is what Selin calls us)… Thank you for all wonderful times! Association des Etats Généraux des Etudiants de L’Europe KAYAFEST BIG YOUNG HEARTS IN A SMALL TOWN IN TURKEY 1 ....................................................................................... Serdar M. Değirmencioğlu Once there was a small town in southwestern Anatolia, called Livissi. Like many other towns and villages in Anatolia, the local Greek community in Livissi and nearby Makre, and the Turkish community co-existed peacefully for centuries. Even in days of war, there was no hostility or conflict in this area. Then came a decree: Local Greeks were to pack and leave in three days. This was 80 years ago. Two governments decided that nation states were not supposed to be ethnically mixed and it was an acceptable idea to exchange the unwanted ethnic populations, and signed the infamous Population Exchange Treaty. No one asked the locals – Greek or Turkish – their opinion: The “Others” had to leave. The Greeks left in agony words cannot describe – the official who had to announce the decree to the Greeks cried as he was reading. Years later, a handful of young people, members of AEGEE-Ankara (AEGEE is a Pan-European student association) visited this ghost town, now known as Kayaköy (“rock village” in Turkish after stone houses of Livissi) and decided to turn this village into a setting for a festival of peace and friendship. And so they did about 10 days ago, on July 28 through August 3. With funding from the European Commission, they brought together young people (more than 300 from Greece, many more from all over Turkey), members of NGOs, folk 1 This article was published in several professional psychology newsletters and bulletins, and distributed widely in online groups formed by peace activists. It was translated into Greek by a psychologist from Greece and published later in a provincial newspaper. More recently the piece was translated into Catalan by a psychologist from Spain and published in a professional bulletin for psychologists. KayaFest Youth and Culture Festival 91
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academicians, university students,
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