Ankara (May 2012)




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Dear Peter

after having stayed some days in Istanbul where I fixed the residency and other pending issues, as well as greeting friends, known and new, where we did some ceremonies, we travelled to Ankara.

When I arrived, Altug was waiting for me at the train station, with an excellent emotional tone, very happy to be together again and we went to the salita-house, we bought some things in the market for later, since we had informed everyone that we would be there in the afternoon and we would like to have tea and greet them.

So a while later after arriving home and preparing tea with Altug, Zehra arrived and soon later Handan and her cousin,  Yüksel, Aylin & Yusuf.
Mehtap called, she was travelling in Bursa and we will see each other when she comes back.
Handan asked if we would do ceremonies, so after having tea together and seeing the news, we did a Service and a Well-Being ceremony, where, among other friends, we asked for your knees that they may support you on the tours and that you find yourself with lots of energy. Everyone loves you very much and they ask when you are coming, they say they miss you and were very interested in the tours and the meeting of the Message in Attigliano.

So we are preparing the list with the passport numbers and names of all of them, to see if we can obtain a VISA from June 20 to August 20. This way, they could travel to the meeting in Attigliano on the last week of June, as well as visiting the parks Mikebuda, Pravikov and Schlamau in the first two weeks of August. Surely our Italian, Hungarian, Czech and German friends can send an invitation to them, inviting them to participate in some events of the Parks of Study and Reflection, so maybe we will manage that they all obtain a VISA
Everything seems fine with them and they are obtaining their passports, those who didn't have one, like Yusuf and Huseyin, we are seeing how Zehra can organize this, since all of the others are quite animated. In Istanbul, both Jonturk and Deniz are also excited about coming, we still have to talk to Dilek, Guner and some others.

Well, tomorrow Yusuf, Bulent & Yüksel organized a panel-conference on the issue of women in Turkey, on discrimination and violence, I am attaching the flyer they made.
I will update the bills and see if can print some leaflets on the Healing of Suffering and give Yüksel the files to print the Comentaries to Silo's Message in Turkish, which according to Altug is a good translation. Alvaro is editing the text and graphics and when it is ready we will print it.

Hülya also called me so that tomorrow morning we will meet the president of the Alevis, at their association to see if we can do something together, so I will tell you how it goes. I will give them a book of the Message in Turkish.

A big hug
Eduardo