28 March 2012 :Information about the stand at Ankara's Book Fair
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Hello friends,
Today I was in the Medya Editions' Stand at the Ankara Book Fair. There was lots of curiosity over the exhibition of Silo's Message. When I arrived it was 17:00. I saw that Silo's poster was on the wall and there were 15-20 books on the table together with the other books, regarding, generally, different cultures (Kurdish, Alevi, etc.) and philosophy. There was Yuksel and a friend there. During the two hours I was there some people approached and looked at the Book. Considering it was a working day there were plenty of people. According to Yuksel, there are more visitors during the week-end. Especially university students attend during the week-end. Until now, Yuksel has sold 8 books. Six were sold to people visiting the fair and the other two were bought by Mehtap. Among the six buyers, one bought it because he spoke Spanish, Yuksel told me. He said that every day he sold 2 or 3 books of the Message.
This was my small experience this afternoon. I have included some pictures so that you can see the fair.
Un abrazo para todos.
Altug Akyel
Hello friends,
Today I was in the Medya Editions' Stand at the Ankara Book Fair. There was lots of curiosity over the exhibition of Silo's Message. When I arrived it was 17:00. I saw that Silo's poster was on the wall and there were 15-20 books on the table together with the other books, regarding, generally, different cultures (Kurdish, Alevi, etc.) and philosophy. There was Yuksel and a friend there. During the two hours I was there some people approached and looked at the Book. Considering it was a working day there were plenty of people. According to Yuksel, there are more visitors during the week-end. Especially university students attend during the week-end. Until now, Yuksel has sold 8 books. Six were sold to people visiting the fair and the other two were bought by Mehtap. Among the six buyers, one bought it because he spoke Spanish, Yuksel told me. He said that every day he sold 2 or 3 books of the Message.
This was my small experience this afternoon. I have included some pictures so that you can see the fair.
Un abrazo para todos.
Altug Akyel
21 march in Ankara
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Hello friends,
Today, March 21, 2012 was a day full of good events.
Peter had a date with Altug in Kizilay to spend some time together. First we went to a photocopying store to make copies of the calendar and list of libraries to give our friends in the weekly meeting of the Message. After, we went to a terrace on top of a building in Kizilay to eat and chat and we stayed there for a while talking about interesting things regarding our issues. Later, Peter took Altug to pick up some pants he had bought and had to be fixed. But before leaving the building, on the terrace, we met with Mesut and Ali, a very happy and surprising encounter. On the street going to pick up the pants, we met Handan and it wasn’t a simple coincidence. Another happy meeting and we chatted for a while. After having picked up the pants, Altug took Peter to an underground passageway full of bookstores, a book market, then going back to Kizilay, still chatting and in good company with one another. We went to the bookstore where we knew from Yüksel we would find the book of the Message. We went in and asked for the book and they told us to go downstairs and talk to the owner. And so we did. The owner confirmed that the book was already catalogued and in the bookstores webpage. So people can ask for the book also through internet. The owner went upstairs with us, holding the books, and puts them in a section called “New Titles” saying that the book will stay there for a month and then will be moved to another part of the library. So Altug bought the book, with this milestone, he is the first person in Turkey to have bought the book. We took some pictures in the bookstore and in the entrance where we asked a couple who was there to take a picture of us, which they did with much enjoyment.
We finished our walk in the direction of Ardiç café where we had a cup of Salep, greeting the owner and Emine who was happy to see us. So we had the idea that it would be nice to do a presentation in this place and we were going to ask Aylin to organize this with the owner.
In the meantime, it was already 18h and Peter had to go home to prepare to welcome the friends coming for the meeting. We said goodbye with much affection.
At 18:30, Neyla, Zehra’s younger sister, arrived at home, which was a surprise since we didn’t know she was coming. Peter trying to talk to her for half an hour using Google Translator. Neyla very dynamic and friendly and looked for a Alevi sema on youtube and it was so beautiful that Peter immediately put it on his facebook page. We had chai and lots of fun in not understanding each other’s languages; fortunately, Huseyin arrived at 19h back from a visit to his niece. Conversation became normal with Huseyin’s translations and they also talked between them in Turkish. A while later Handan arrived, she was also happy, then Aylin with her very nice friend, Mert. Aylin arrived hungry and was looking for something to eat in the freezer. A very loose and friendly atmosphere was created. Neyla serving tea, Aylin eating as well as the others, but they were eating large quantities of sunflower seeds someone had brought. Ali also arrived, he said Mesut couldn’t come because he had to work. So we stayed in the kitchen for a while with animated chats between everyone and Peter distributing the list of libraries to everyone.
At 20h we moved to the salita, to begin the ceremonies. Right before starting, Handan asked Peter if he wanted to say something. Peter happily says that now we have the book, after a year and a half of continuous and sustained volunteer work by friend in Turkey and abroad and he explained again that the publishing was financed by volunteer contributions of many friends. He also expresses his desire that weekly meetings may continue after he leaves Ankara tomorrow. So Mert asks some interesting questions wanting to know from where this Message come from and other things, which gave us the opportunity to say something more about Silo and the Message. A very warm and quiet atmosphere was created, so when we started with the ceremonies, something very special was in the air. Huseyin guided the Service and Aylin the Well Being with Askings expressed to various dear ones who have some difficulties or serious health problems. At the end, spontaneous, heartfelt and moving hugs, followed by a wave of contagious joy. Neyla invited us for more tea in the kitchen which she had prepared before the ceremonies began. So we continued talking in the kitchen and Yüksel, who couldn’t come earlier because he had to go to the airport to pick up a friend, arrived. The atmosphere was so nice and so loose, a real pleasure for all. At a certain point, Mert took the book and started reading for a while, in the midst of the conversations around him. He had expressed that maybe it would be better to prepare new persons before they come to the ceremonies to explain what it is about and also asked that the pauses by longer to concentrate better in what the ceremonies propose. So it was a good opportunity to talk about this and also, now that we have the book, we can make sure new friends can become familiar with the texts of the ceremonies before they come for the first time. Everything beautiful, like a person who comes for the first time and expresses his need to penetrate better what the ceremonies propose.
At a certain point, Yüksel starting preparing the famous Kurdish coffee (which is not coffee), taking his time. This time he put extra ingredients, a kind of seed, everything very tasty. Joy and animated conversations continued, finishing with reading the coffee grounds, by Aylin and Huseyin, like people here do socially. Lots of fun and in a good mood.
So wonderful that nobody wanted to leave. But at 23h our friends said goodbye to Peter, who is leaving tomorrow, with lots of hugs and good wishes. Yüksel stayed and together with Peter and Huseyin moved the books and Huseyin’s wardrobe downstairs as was his wish.
After Yüksel went home and Huseyin and Peter talked for a long while in the kitchen. Huseyin is going back tomorrow to Diyarbakir. He is very happy and glad with his one week stay in Ankara, with all the friends who love him very much.
Well, friends, this is our part of the report for the moment. We thank you all for your good, encouraging reactions.
Un grand y alegre abrazo,
Altug, Handan, Aylin, Neyla, Mert, Ali, Yüksel, Huseyin y Peter
Hello friends,
Today, March 21, 2012 was a day full of good events.
Peter had a date with Altug in Kizilay to spend some time together. First we went to a photocopying store to make copies of the calendar and list of libraries to give our friends in the weekly meeting of the Message. After, we went to a terrace on top of a building in Kizilay to eat and chat and we stayed there for a while talking about interesting things regarding our issues. Later, Peter took Altug to pick up some pants he had bought and had to be fixed. But before leaving the building, on the terrace, we met with Mesut and Ali, a very happy and surprising encounter. On the street going to pick up the pants, we met Handan and it wasn’t a simple coincidence. Another happy meeting and we chatted for a while. After having picked up the pants, Altug took Peter to an underground passageway full of bookstores, a book market, then going back to Kizilay, still chatting and in good company with one another. We went to the bookstore where we knew from Yüksel we would find the book of the Message. We went in and asked for the book and they told us to go downstairs and talk to the owner. And so we did. The owner confirmed that the book was already catalogued and in the bookstores webpage. So people can ask for the book also through internet. The owner went upstairs with us, holding the books, and puts them in a section called “New Titles” saying that the book will stay there for a month and then will be moved to another part of the library. So Altug bought the book, with this milestone, he is the first person in Turkey to have bought the book. We took some pictures in the bookstore and in the entrance where we asked a couple who was there to take a picture of us, which they did with much enjoyment.
We finished our walk in the direction of Ardiç café where we had a cup of Salep, greeting the owner and Emine who was happy to see us. So we had the idea that it would be nice to do a presentation in this place and we were going to ask Aylin to organize this with the owner.
In the meantime, it was already 18h and Peter had to go home to prepare to welcome the friends coming for the meeting. We said goodbye with much affection.
At 18:30, Neyla, Zehra’s younger sister, arrived at home, which was a surprise since we didn’t know she was coming. Peter trying to talk to her for half an hour using Google Translator. Neyla very dynamic and friendly and looked for a Alevi sema on youtube and it was so beautiful that Peter immediately put it on his facebook page. We had chai and lots of fun in not understanding each other’s languages; fortunately, Huseyin arrived at 19h back from a visit to his niece. Conversation became normal with Huseyin’s translations and they also talked between them in Turkish. A while later Handan arrived, she was also happy, then Aylin with her very nice friend, Mert. Aylin arrived hungry and was looking for something to eat in the freezer. A very loose and friendly atmosphere was created. Neyla serving tea, Aylin eating as well as the others, but they were eating large quantities of sunflower seeds someone had brought. Ali also arrived, he said Mesut couldn’t come because he had to work. So we stayed in the kitchen for a while with animated chats between everyone and Peter distributing the list of libraries to everyone.
At 20h we moved to the salita, to begin the ceremonies. Right before starting, Handan asked Peter if he wanted to say something. Peter happily says that now we have the book, after a year and a half of continuous and sustained volunteer work by friend in Turkey and abroad and he explained again that the publishing was financed by volunteer contributions of many friends. He also expresses his desire that weekly meetings may continue after he leaves Ankara tomorrow. So Mert asks some interesting questions wanting to know from where this Message come from and other things, which gave us the opportunity to say something more about Silo and the Message. A very warm and quiet atmosphere was created, so when we started with the ceremonies, something very special was in the air. Huseyin guided the Service and Aylin the Well Being with Askings expressed to various dear ones who have some difficulties or serious health problems. At the end, spontaneous, heartfelt and moving hugs, followed by a wave of contagious joy. Neyla invited us for more tea in the kitchen which she had prepared before the ceremonies began. So we continued talking in the kitchen and Yüksel, who couldn’t come earlier because he had to go to the airport to pick up a friend, arrived. The atmosphere was so nice and so loose, a real pleasure for all. At a certain point, Mert took the book and started reading for a while, in the midst of the conversations around him. He had expressed that maybe it would be better to prepare new persons before they come to the ceremonies to explain what it is about and also asked that the pauses by longer to concentrate better in what the ceremonies propose. So it was a good opportunity to talk about this and also, now that we have the book, we can make sure new friends can become familiar with the texts of the ceremonies before they come for the first time. Everything beautiful, like a person who comes for the first time and expresses his need to penetrate better what the ceremonies propose.
At a certain point, Yüksel starting preparing the famous Kurdish coffee (which is not coffee), taking his time. This time he put extra ingredients, a kind of seed, everything very tasty. Joy and animated conversations continued, finishing with reading the coffee grounds, by Aylin and Huseyin, like people here do socially. Lots of fun and in a good mood.
So wonderful that nobody wanted to leave. But at 23h our friends said goodbye to Peter, who is leaving tomorrow, with lots of hugs and good wishes. Yüksel stayed and together with Peter and Huseyin moved the books and Huseyin’s wardrobe downstairs as was his wish.
After Yüksel went home and Huseyin and Peter talked for a long while in the kitchen. Huseyin is going back tomorrow to Diyarbakir. He is very happy and glad with his one week stay in Ankara, with all the friends who love him very much.
Well, friends, this is our part of the report for the moment. We thank you all for your good, encouraging reactions.
Un grand y alegre abrazo,
Altug, Handan, Aylin, Neyla, Mert, Ali, Yüksel, Huseyin y Peter
The book presentation tour in turkish cities
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Today in Ankara in Ankara 20 march 2012
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Hello friends,
Today, March 20, 2012 was a very sunny day with very pleasant temperatures. So we made the most of the day and went for a walk in the park close to home to have tea and take some sun.
At 18h Yüksel and Mustafa came home with 300 books of Silo’s Message in Turkish. It was a very special moment, a milestone and the end of a long period of translations, revisions, re-revisions, etc.
What joy to hold the book in our hands. Furthermore, it is beautiful.
We had chai and sweets with Yüksel and Mustafa and we showed him the poster and the editor’s news in Turkish they had not seen yet. We made sure they knew how to download the file of the poster and we sent it and Publisher News to their emails. Now we are waiting for the file of the press kit so that everything will be printed by tomorrow.
At 19h, Zehra arrived and half an hour later Mehtap, we had a date with them to continue the issue of fairs and tours. Huseyin and Yüksel also came and Huseyin was on the computer to fill in the spreadsheet with the list of bookstores with addresses and phone numbers.
In the meantime, in the kitchen, Mehtap and Zehra were working on the abovementioned issue. We agreed that there will be pictures in the stand in the Ankara fair, together with small tales in Turkish and English for the blog. Zehra, Mehtap and Altug will be at the stand this week end and Zehra also on Friday. During the week, our friends will support whenever they can, because they all work.
They asked how to present the book and we explained that we don’t know, but that there are very beautiful and informative texts in the kit and Publisher News , with information on Silo and more. That it would be wonderful if there could be some kind of testimony of their experiences with the Message and maybe we could suggest to do a ceremony so the people could have an experience themselves.
We also talked about the need of a distance communication so that we can follow how the calendar will fill up with presentation events in various places. Cafés, libraries, cultural centers, etc. Mehtap is willing to take care of this. Zehra will talk to her husband who is active in Ankara’s Alevi center. Well, giving images and interchanging on possibilities. We also said it would be very interesting if all of the friends who have family and friends in other cities, inform them about the tours asking for their help. We know we need translators and we have few and it would be necessary to cover all cities. So this issue is also included in asking friends and family for help.
There was also an interesting proposal. It seems that in August there is a three day Alevi festival in a place called Hacibektas (August 16, 17 and 18) and Mehtap and Zehra want us to do something there as well and are willing to go there. We agreed to give news of this to our friends abroad who can’t come in June or July, but could participate in August. Furthermore, they said, supported by Huseyin, we could organize a mini tour in august, including other interesting festival places. So it was very animated.
In the meantime Altug called to see how we were. Very nice.
At 20:30 we decided to have dinner which Peter had prepared before and the conversations continued while we were eating. Mehtap proposed some ceremonies. So we moved to the salita and Zehra guided the Service and Well being with the printed book. It was a very beautiful and intimate atmosphere, very calm and smooth. At the end there was a lot of happiness, hugs of joy.
Mehtap and Zehra left at 22h and Peter and Yüksel continued with the list of libraries. The first list is ready but many are still missing. Yüksel was not satisfied with the libraries he had on his list and wanted to find better ones.
So he will put more information during the coming days and send back the file.
So, this is it for today. Tomorrow there will be the weekly meeting of experiences and we hope many friends will attend.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Mehtap, Zehra, Huseyin y Peter
Hello friends,
Today, March 20, 2012 was a very sunny day with very pleasant temperatures. So we made the most of the day and went for a walk in the park close to home to have tea and take some sun.
At 18h Yüksel and Mustafa came home with 300 books of Silo’s Message in Turkish. It was a very special moment, a milestone and the end of a long period of translations, revisions, re-revisions, etc.
What joy to hold the book in our hands. Furthermore, it is beautiful.
We had chai and sweets with Yüksel and Mustafa and we showed him the poster and the editor’s news in Turkish they had not seen yet. We made sure they knew how to download the file of the poster and we sent it and Publisher News to their emails. Now we are waiting for the file of the press kit so that everything will be printed by tomorrow.
At 19h, Zehra arrived and half an hour later Mehtap, we had a date with them to continue the issue of fairs and tours. Huseyin and Yüksel also came and Huseyin was on the computer to fill in the spreadsheet with the list of bookstores with addresses and phone numbers.
In the meantime, in the kitchen, Mehtap and Zehra were working on the abovementioned issue. We agreed that there will be pictures in the stand in the Ankara fair, together with small tales in Turkish and English for the blog. Zehra, Mehtap and Altug will be at the stand this week end and Zehra also on Friday. During the week, our friends will support whenever they can, because they all work.
They asked how to present the book and we explained that we don’t know, but that there are very beautiful and informative texts in the kit and Publisher News , with information on Silo and more. That it would be wonderful if there could be some kind of testimony of their experiences with the Message and maybe we could suggest to do a ceremony so the people could have an experience themselves.
We also talked about the need of a distance communication so that we can follow how the calendar will fill up with presentation events in various places. Cafés, libraries, cultural centers, etc. Mehtap is willing to take care of this. Zehra will talk to her husband who is active in Ankara’s Alevi center. Well, giving images and interchanging on possibilities. We also said it would be very interesting if all of the friends who have family and friends in other cities, inform them about the tours asking for their help. We know we need translators and we have few and it would be necessary to cover all cities. So this issue is also included in asking friends and family for help.
There was also an interesting proposal. It seems that in August there is a three day Alevi festival in a place called Hacibektas (August 16, 17 and 18) and Mehtap and Zehra want us to do something there as well and are willing to go there. We agreed to give news of this to our friends abroad who can’t come in June or July, but could participate in August. Furthermore, they said, supported by Huseyin, we could organize a mini tour in august, including other interesting festival places. So it was very animated.
In the meantime Altug called to see how we were. Very nice.
At 20:30 we decided to have dinner which Peter had prepared before and the conversations continued while we were eating. Mehtap proposed some ceremonies. So we moved to the salita and Zehra guided the Service and Well being with the printed book. It was a very beautiful and intimate atmosphere, very calm and smooth. At the end there was a lot of happiness, hugs of joy.
Mehtap and Zehra left at 22h and Peter and Yüksel continued with the list of libraries. The first list is ready but many are still missing. Yüksel was not satisfied with the libraries he had on his list and wanted to find better ones.
So he will put more information during the coming days and send back the file.
So, this is it for today. Tomorrow there will be the weekly meeting of experiences and we hope many friends will attend.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Mehtap, Zehra, Huseyin y Peter
Today in Ankara in Ankara 19 march 2012
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Hello friends,
Today, March 19th 2012, started with Yüksel & Mustafa’s arrival at noon, with 2 proofs of the published book with cover. The color is perfect and exactly the same as the Dutch book which had the color we wanted. So we accepted and Yüksel called the printing house immediately to give the OK. Tomorrow at 19h we will have the books ready to distribute in bookstores and 300 copies at home for us.
In the meantime, Altug called saying that he had almost finished the translation of the press kit and that he would send the text to Peter & Huseyin at 14h. Huseyin revised, fixing some of the grammar and we already sent the text to Eduardo and Alvaro so they can start the design in Turkish.
We invited Altug to come to the meeting to prepare the calendar of the tours and other. At that moment he didn’t know if he could come.
At 17h Aylin called to invite us to have tea in Kizilay, Huseyin & Peter left the house and met on the stairs Yüksel &... Altug. So we decided to go together to Kizily to meet Aylin. Asking Altug if his arrival together with Yüksel was a coincidence, he explained that Yüksel had called asking him to come sign the contract between the editor and author in order to make the translation in Turkish official.
At least this is what we understood. Altug, very available, agreed.
After a good conversation on the terrace of a new café we had never been to, Altug & Peter went home at 18:30 to receive the friends coming to the 19h meeting. On the way, they met Yüksel & Mustafa who said they had to fix some things and would come later. At home, Peter started preparing food for after, talking to Altug as time passed. At 20h nobody had arrived yet. So we started calling Huseyin, Aylin &Yüksel confirmed they were about to come, Mehtap was with Bülent & Olcaytug in Kizilay to fix some bank issue with Bülent. We asked Mehtap if she could come and she proposed to come together with Bülent and Olcaytug. Mesut also called to know if he and Ali could go home and we explained about the meeting and that they were welcome. Everything started a bit chaotic with immediate proposals on what and where to do things for the presentation and it took a while before everyone understood that first of all we need to set the calendar of the tours and then fill it with events, presentations, etc.
Once it was understood everyone started discussing the sequence of the cities and the time of stay in each one. The result was that the tour begins on June 2 in Istanbul where we will stay for 4 days for multiple presentation. After, days 6 and 7 in Bursa, travelling on the 6th early in the morning (it’s a 3 hour trip). After Bursa we will go to Izmir where we will stay for 3 days, 9, 10 and 11 June. The 8th is for travelling. On June 12th we will travel to Antalya which is far away and stay there on June 13, 14 and 15. On the 16th another day of travel to arrive in Ankara where we will stay on June 17, 18 and 19. From Ankara we will go to Eskeshir (one hour and a half from Ankara), we will stay there on June 21 and 22 and that will be the end of the Western tour. After there will be a pause of 10 days.
The Eastern tour will begin on July 3 and 4 in Antep. On the 5th we will travel to Urfa where we will stay July 6 and 7. On July 8th we travel to Dyiarbakir where we will stay on July 9, 10 and 11. On July 12, 13 and 14 we will be in Mardin, an hour and a half away from Dyiarbakir and we will go back to Dyiarbakir to sleep. On July 15 and 16 we will be in Batman, also close to Dyiarbakir (2 hours trip) and we will again go back to sleep in Dyiarbakir. On July 17th we will travel to Mus (Warto province) which is further away and we will be in this city on July 18 and 19. We will stay in Van on July 24, 25 and 26. There will be 3 free days and we will see what to do there. On the 23rd we travel to Van and stay until 27th to Tunceli, where we will stay from July 28th to August 1st. There the Eastern tour will end. The Eastern tour coincides with the festivals of the different cities.
The cities which have important airports are Urfa, Antep, Dyiarbakir. This can facilitate arrivals of friends who will come to part of the tour. This is what came out of the meeting. After we talked about how to fill this calendar with Book presentation events giving examples. Our friends confirmed they will take care of us through their contacts and of course including presentations in bookstores which have the book in stock.
There was also the proposal of printing a bookmark. They want to put Silo’s image and a Principle of valid action and some reference, to distribute it in many libraries. This could give a signal to people which will make them curious about the book. Yüksel said we could print it for free.
Tomorrow Mehtap and Zehra and also Yüksel to continue with this issue.
Regarding the Ankara book fair, Yüksel announced he has organized with Mehtap, Zehra, Altug, Aylin & Bülent for support with their presence on the different days.
The press kit, the pamphlet about Silo and the poster will be printed and ready this Friday to be used in the fair’s stand.
At 22:30 everyone left except for Altug and Yüksel who stayed to eat together.
It was a busy day and full of things, finally accompanied by Spring temperatures.
We will prepare an Excel table of the calendars we will send soon.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Altug, Huseyin y Peter
Hello friends,
Today, March 19th 2012, started with Yüksel & Mustafa’s arrival at noon, with 2 proofs of the published book with cover. The color is perfect and exactly the same as the Dutch book which had the color we wanted. So we accepted and Yüksel called the printing house immediately to give the OK. Tomorrow at 19h we will have the books ready to distribute in bookstores and 300 copies at home for us.
In the meantime, Altug called saying that he had almost finished the translation of the press kit and that he would send the text to Peter & Huseyin at 14h. Huseyin revised, fixing some of the grammar and we already sent the text to Eduardo and Alvaro so they can start the design in Turkish.
We invited Altug to come to the meeting to prepare the calendar of the tours and other. At that moment he didn’t know if he could come.
At 17h Aylin called to invite us to have tea in Kizilay, Huseyin & Peter left the house and met on the stairs Yüksel &... Altug. So we decided to go together to Kizily to meet Aylin. Asking Altug if his arrival together with Yüksel was a coincidence, he explained that Yüksel had called asking him to come sign the contract between the editor and author in order to make the translation in Turkish official.
At least this is what we understood. Altug, very available, agreed.
After a good conversation on the terrace of a new café we had never been to, Altug & Peter went home at 18:30 to receive the friends coming to the 19h meeting. On the way, they met Yüksel & Mustafa who said they had to fix some things and would come later. At home, Peter started preparing food for after, talking to Altug as time passed. At 20h nobody had arrived yet. So we started calling Huseyin, Aylin &Yüksel confirmed they were about to come, Mehtap was with Bülent & Olcaytug in Kizilay to fix some bank issue with Bülent. We asked Mehtap if she could come and she proposed to come together with Bülent and Olcaytug. Mesut also called to know if he and Ali could go home and we explained about the meeting and that they were welcome. Everything started a bit chaotic with immediate proposals on what and where to do things for the presentation and it took a while before everyone understood that first of all we need to set the calendar of the tours and then fill it with events, presentations, etc.
Once it was understood everyone started discussing the sequence of the cities and the time of stay in each one. The result was that the tour begins on June 2 in Istanbul where we will stay for 4 days for multiple presentation. After, days 6 and 7 in Bursa, travelling on the 6th early in the morning (it’s a 3 hour trip). After Bursa we will go to Izmir where we will stay for 3 days, 9, 10 and 11 June. The 8th is for travelling. On June 12th we will travel to Antalya which is far away and stay there on June 13, 14 and 15. On the 16th another day of travel to arrive in Ankara where we will stay on June 17, 18 and 19. From Ankara we will go to Eskeshir (one hour and a half from Ankara), we will stay there on June 21 and 22 and that will be the end of the Western tour. After there will be a pause of 10 days.
The Eastern tour will begin on July 3 and 4 in Antep. On the 5th we will travel to Urfa where we will stay July 6 and 7. On July 8th we travel to Dyiarbakir where we will stay on July 9, 10 and 11. On July 12, 13 and 14 we will be in Mardin, an hour and a half away from Dyiarbakir and we will go back to Dyiarbakir to sleep. On July 15 and 16 we will be in Batman, also close to Dyiarbakir (2 hours trip) and we will again go back to sleep in Dyiarbakir. On July 17th we will travel to Mus (Warto province) which is further away and we will be in this city on July 18 and 19. We will stay in Van on July 24, 25 and 26. There will be 3 free days and we will see what to do there. On the 23rd we travel to Van and stay until 27th to Tunceli, where we will stay from July 28th to August 1st. There the Eastern tour will end. The Eastern tour coincides with the festivals of the different cities.
The cities which have important airports are Urfa, Antep, Dyiarbakir. This can facilitate arrivals of friends who will come to part of the tour. This is what came out of the meeting. After we talked about how to fill this calendar with Book presentation events giving examples. Our friends confirmed they will take care of us through their contacts and of course including presentations in bookstores which have the book in stock.
There was also the proposal of printing a bookmark. They want to put Silo’s image and a Principle of valid action and some reference, to distribute it in many libraries. This could give a signal to people which will make them curious about the book. Yüksel said we could print it for free.
Tomorrow Mehtap and Zehra and also Yüksel to continue with this issue.
Regarding the Ankara book fair, Yüksel announced he has organized with Mehtap, Zehra, Altug, Aylin & Bülent for support with their presence on the different days.
The press kit, the pamphlet about Silo and the poster will be printed and ready this Friday to be used in the fair’s stand.
At 22:30 everyone left except for Altug and Yüksel who stayed to eat together.
It was a busy day and full of things, finally accompanied by Spring temperatures.
We will prepare an Excel table of the calendars we will send soon.
Un fuerte abrazo,
Yüksel, Altug, Huseyin y Peter
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