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Dear Peter,
like I mentioned, today they had invited us to participate in a panel about woman in Turkey... co-present it dealt with violence against women, discrimination, etc. ... which was not on the poster.
So the representatives of health and education trade unions, as well as the Eskisheir doctor, a poet and a Kurdish member of Parliament, described the situation, with statistics and example which gave an idea of the magnitude of this discrimination and suffering experienced by a large percentage of women. The panelists stated that the problem was political and educational and that if the system changes, violence will disappear, which we know is not like that, since the human intention does not appear in its real importance and it is not considered that mental suffering cannot be fixed by the Ministry of Health, Justice or the Economy.
On our side, we tried to focus on the issue on the side of the origin of violence, having co-present the Healing of Suffering and the proposal of the ceremony of Recognition.
We spoke last, maybe because we were the only man, but we talked, so that after almost 4 hours, better to be brief and explain the issue from our point of view in a brief but clear manner.
You will surely receive some photos, I still haven't received them and I could take pictures since I was in the panel.
There were more than 100 persons there, among them our friends Bülent, Olçay, Yusuf, Altug, Handan, Zehra, Yüksel and Mustafa so it was interesting for them as well and they liked what we said, even though they were more familiar with the ceremony of Recognition and our themes.
We distributed the pamphlets with the Healing of Suffering which Alvaro designed and Yüksel printed and distributed to those present, so maybe someone will be interested.
We agreed with some to have tea and chat, as well as with some young people (a girl and two boys) who were interested in inviting us to see many of their friends, since they are in a political party and want to know our point of view, but since there were too many people which we were greeting and couldn't concentrate on them, Yüksel will find them.
Well, soon after we went with some of the panelists to Yusuf's office, where we continued having tea and talking, some very into the political issues, on what must change, without asking themselves on the origin of violence.
Then Yuksel invited us to see some friends of his village (Varto) and we went together with Altug. They invited us to a barbecue and finally we went to another celebration in a café with the family, had tea and listened to Alevi and Kurdish music.
A day with many variables, very relational with many greeted persons.
We agreed that on Monday in the salita-house we will see Mehtap who is arriving from Bursa and with Handa and the others, surely we will have dinner together and do some ceremonies.
Un fuerte abrazo
Eduardo
Dear Peter,
like I mentioned, today they had invited us to participate in a panel about woman in Turkey... co-present it dealt with violence against women, discrimination, etc. ... which was not on the poster.
So the representatives of health and education trade unions, as well as the Eskisheir doctor, a poet and a Kurdish member of Parliament, described the situation, with statistics and example which gave an idea of the magnitude of this discrimination and suffering experienced by a large percentage of women. The panelists stated that the problem was political and educational and that if the system changes, violence will disappear, which we know is not like that, since the human intention does not appear in its real importance and it is not considered that mental suffering cannot be fixed by the Ministry of Health, Justice or the Economy.
On our side, we tried to focus on the issue on the side of the origin of violence, having co-present the Healing of Suffering and the proposal of the ceremony of Recognition.
We spoke last, maybe because we were the only man, but we talked, so that after almost 4 hours, better to be brief and explain the issue from our point of view in a brief but clear manner.
You will surely receive some photos, I still haven't received them and I could take pictures since I was in the panel.
There were more than 100 persons there, among them our friends Bülent, Olçay, Yusuf, Altug, Handan, Zehra, Yüksel and Mustafa so it was interesting for them as well and they liked what we said, even though they were more familiar with the ceremony of Recognition and our themes.
We distributed the pamphlets with the Healing of Suffering which Alvaro designed and Yüksel printed and distributed to those present, so maybe someone will be interested.
We agreed with some to have tea and chat, as well as with some young people (a girl and two boys) who were interested in inviting us to see many of their friends, since they are in a political party and want to know our point of view, but since there were too many people which we were greeting and couldn't concentrate on them, Yüksel will find them.
Well, soon after we went with some of the panelists to Yusuf's office, where we continued having tea and talking, some very into the political issues, on what must change, without asking themselves on the origin of violence.
Then Yuksel invited us to see some friends of his village (Varto) and we went together with Altug. They invited us to a barbecue and finally we went to another celebration in a café with the family, had tea and listened to Alevi and Kurdish music.
A day with many variables, very relational with many greeted persons.
We agreed that on Monday in the salita-house we will see Mehtap who is arriving from Bursa and with Handa and the others, surely we will have dinner together and do some ceremonies.
Un fuerte abrazo
Eduardo
