Today in Ankara, October 8, 2012



Hello friends,
Today was a very good day as well. At around 15:30 in the afternoon Hüseyin and Peter, went to the Center of the Federation of Alevi associations (Alevi cultural associations) to meet with Huseyin, Zehra’s husband, who is the director of the Federation. Zehra organized this meeting and she also attended. We were very warmly received and immediately a very nice lady offered us chai. For a good while we exchanged information about the life of Alevis and Silo’s Message, reaffirming, there are many things in common, such as tolerance, nonviolent attitude as a direction in life, etc.
At a certain point we asked Huseyin if it would be possible to make a book presentation in the center. He explained that this center is the central office of the federation and not a place for semas or other kinds of meetings. But, if after reading the book, it seems good to him, he can send a recommendation to associations which, in turn, through their boards, can freely decide if they are interested in organizing a presentation. He promised to give us a list of associations and their contacts. We gave him the Book and Commentaries so that he could read them and after a little more conversation between Hüseyin, Huseyin and Zehra we said good-bye warmly, to the nice lady as well and Hüseyin and Peter went to the same place we had been to the other day with Zehra, Mehtap and her friend Tayfun and had a long conversation about interesting issues concerning us.
We went back home at 19:00 and Hüseyin went to rest for a while because tomorrow very early he must travel to Konya from where he will be back on the same day. At 20:00 Handan called to say she was coming and we talked until Aylin arrived at 20:30. We continued talking until Yüksel arrived at 21:30 and the four us went on talking. It was all very lively and in a good mood. At 22:00 Handan proposed to do ceremonies and we woke up Hüseyin so that he could also participate.
The ceremonies went very well, Handan and Aylin guiding one ceremony each. During the Well Being we tried to send well being to every person who is suffering violence in Syria and between Syria and Turkey and we asked for the end of all the war-related violence in the region. It was very intense and very beautiful and at the end we were all very well and happy of having been together in this wave of well being and asking.
Previously, while we were talking in the kitchen, Handan invited us to go to her house tomorrow at 14:00 to eat together. We also talked about possible presentations and Yüksel and Aylin agreed that Babil cafe is a good place. Tomorrow we will visit this place, which is in Kizilay, to make contact and feel the atmosphere.
At 22:30, Handan and Aylin went home and that was the end of a very beautiful day.
Tomorrow we’ll see how it goes.
A big hug to all,
Hüseyin, Handan, Aylin, Yüksel and Peter

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