Hello friends,
Today many things happen we will try to convey.
Early in the morning we said good-bye to Carmen, Salva and
Ismael who went back to Istanbul to continue their trip back to Madrid.
At 9:00 we took alvaro to the bus for Ankara airport. He
also went back to Madrid.
We want to thank once more our 4 dear friends for their
radiant presence in the Western tour of Turkey. Their presence and company gave
a great contribution to the high spirits of the team. We also want to remember
the equally radiant presence of Ariane and Zoë, Isabel and Aurora who travelled
with us until Antalya. Everything was so wonderful and it was great being in
each others’ company.
At noon Eduardo went to the bookstore to see if the books
were there and none of them was.
So we waited for Yüksel to come home and also Huseyin’s
arrival and we asked for help translating. It seems that Yüksel went to the
bookstore a little bit later to understand what had happened yesterday.
According to them, they had done us a favor and normally they don’t do that
kind of presentation. Since everything had been done in a more or less
irregular way, the personnel wanted us to finish at 19:30. They said they were
sorry for the brusque and abrupt way they had taken down the books. Nacho went
later to the bookstore to check and confirmed the books were once again well in
view. The whole situation stayed a bit strange and gives us the impression they
are not saying everything. But, we’ll leave it aside and go on.
In the afternoon Mustafa came, the editor of our book and
started talking to Eduardo about looking for land for a future Park in Turkey.
Since Huseyin was there, Eduardo could explain in detail what we’re looking
for. The type of land and the minimum conditions. Mustafa offered to look for
land. It was a very animated
conversation and at 19h Aylin arrived. We decided for the moment to look for
land close to Izmir, in an area were there are many Alevis and people have an
open mentality.
We had also planned to do a presentation of the Book in the
salita at 19h, but we were pretty late. At 20h Bülent and Olçay came with two
friends and at 20:30 we started the presentation, while Aylin left because she
had another appointment.
Since all those present had already participated in the
meetings of ceremony, we decided to do personal testimonies tied to our
experiences with the Book. Yüksel, Eduardo, Judit, Nacho and Peter did their
testimonies and soon Bülent had to go, and since he had to leave, his friends
also said good-bye very aimably and with hugs. It was a bit of a surreal
moment, but we are all used to it and we continued with the others Yüksel, Huseyin
and Mustafa. The situation transformed into a beautiful situation, Mustafa
telling about his experience in a very connected way. After he had some
fundamental questions which gave us the opportunity to deepen our experiences.
Everything very beautiful and meaningful. A situation we really hope will
repeat itself many times with all our other friends. Especially thanks to
Huseyin’s translations we had the opportunity to really interchange experiences
with our Turkish friends. Everything was very good.
After we entered the issue of the July tour in Turkey and
many problems came up. We are still talking. We hope that tomorrow morning
everything will be clearer so that we can communicate changes to our friends
coming from Europe and Chile.
A big hug,
Eduardo, Judit, Nacho, Huseyin, Yüksel, Mustafa and Peter
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