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Title: Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project
Location:
Global
Categories: Peace & Conflict
Human Rights
Culture
Status:
Completed
Timeline:
Ongoing
Description:
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue is a demonstration project organised by AEGEE (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de L’Europe - European Students’ Forum) and AEGEE-Ankara and financed by the European Commission under the Civil Society Development Programme (CSDP).
The project was launched in the year 2000 and has included various activities organised in partnership non-governmental organisations from Turkey and Greece. All the relevant activities under the scope of the project have been realised within the framework of civic integration concept. The project comprised a series of instiution-building, networking and training activities.
Background:
Project Justification
Project Justification...our motivation as we started...
AEGEE, a non-profit association aiming at promoting human rights, democracy, mobility, equality in education and carrying out activities for removing prejudices, wants to take a pro-active role also in elimination of prejudices and problems between citizens of Greece and Turkey taking their roots from history. All the problems appeared in the past such as Cyprus issue, continental shelf claims, population exchange, minority rights and such kind of political issues resulted in misunderstandings and lack of communication between the two neighbouring countries. It is of pivotal importance to activate NGOs of both countries to act with a view to eliminate those prejudices and create an environment of mutual understanding and peace. We believe that the activities of NGOs in the grassroots will affect all the citizens and both governments. In this respect, in order to overcome the problem of lack of communication, we need to make researches and learn about each other’s history and culture. Especially in Turkey, civil society and non-governmental organisations are weaker than the ones in Europe. Both in Turkey and Greece, there is not sufficient interest, data and knowledge regarding the concept of civil society. For all these reasons, we desire to create and organise partnership projects with various NGOs of Turkey and Greece, making researches and surveys on civil society understanding and establishing an NGO database for both countries. We believe that, youth is a great dynamic in terms of conflict resolution which contributes in ensuring a peaceful dialogue between the two neighbouring countries and helping to promote and reflect this initiative to the whole civil society and governments.
Project Target Group:
* Youth initiatives, university students and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Turkey and Greece
* Academics, journalists, artists
* European university students in AEGEE network
* Local and governmental authorities
Project Partners
* Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants (www.lozanmubadilleri.org)
* AEGEE-Sakarya (www.aegee.sakarya.edu.tr)
Methods
* Research and databases,
* needs assesment,
* workshops, lectures, trainings, case Works, festival, symposium, conference,
* interactive sessions such as theather, role-playing
* use of art,co-production and performance of young people such as dance,music, photography
Project Timeline
* Preparation Period (needs assesment, meetings, partner finding, feasibility visits) 2000-2002
* Designing Period, application writing, budgeting, contracting 2002-2003
* Official Launch of the Project: “RebuildingCommunication Conference” Sakarya, 20-23 March 2003
* “KayaFest Youth & Culture Festival”, Kayaköy – Livissi, 28 July- 3 August 2003
* “Population Exchange Reconsidered” Symposium, İstanbul, 7-8 November 2003
* “Project Final Conference”, Ankara, 2-4 April 2004
* Preparation of NGO Database, Result Book 2004-2005
* Project Follow Up, 2006
Objectives:
* Fostering dialogue and networking activities between youth initiatives in Turkey and Greece
* Reinforcing and facilitating partnership projects between young people of Turkey and Greece
Milestones:
Results Achieved:
* Increase in the number and quality of partnership projects between young people of Turkey and Greece.
* Reinforced organisational structure of AEGEE locals in Greece and Turkey by delivering trainings.
* More awareness of youth NGOs from Greece and Turkey about European level projects, project management, fund-raising opportunities from the European institutions.
* Elimination of prejudices by providing the youth to discover the cultural, historical background and social life of “the Other”.
* More awareness on the history and cultural heritage of “the Other” through gathering young people and villagers, together with the grandchildren of the emigrants.
* More awareness and more skills among young people to work with minorities, emigrant, different segments of the society, local authorities,
* More humanism, less and less nationalism
* Compilation of a local level Turkish-Greek related documents and references and to link them in the web-site.
* Compilation of concrete data about civic initiatives in Greece and Turkey as a result of thematic studies.
* An on-line NGO database of youth initiatives from Greece, Turkey and Cyprus.
* Result Book including the proceedings and minutes of all the sessions within the framework of the overall project.
* Project E-Newsletters distirbuted to project target group, including information of past project events, future announcements, interviews with participants, academcs and NGOs.
* KayaFest Youth and Culture Festival documentary shot by project participants.
* Photo exhibition of Kayaköy-Livissi prepared by the young people of Greece and Turkey
* Production of various project materials such as T-Shirts, posters, leaflets, stickers
* Publicity among the youth and students networks in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus about Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue and cooperation, coverage in various newspapers, TV and Radio stations, youth and student magazines, online European youth portals. Publicity among European stuıdents and youth networks through the General Assemblies and other meetings of AEGEE-Europe as well as e-newsletters.
* 3500 direct project participants, such as youth and students, academics, speakers, organisers, 20000 indirect stakeholders such as AEGEE network, European youth and student networks, citizens, municipalities.
* a ROAD MAP prepared and declared by young participants of the project on the future of Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue and future cooperation.
Budget:
Funded by European Commission...
Needs:
Future:
* Enhanced partnerships and new projects in various fields,
* Traditionalized KayaFest
* Information network thanks to the NGO database
* Documentary of the Festival to be broadcasted on TV and on several AEGEE meetings to promote the project and AEGEE
* Online youth magazine written by young people from Greece, Turkey and Cyprus
Contact Name: Ceren Gergeroglu (PR) Burcu Becermen (Coord.)
Contact Email Address: trgr@aegee-ankara.org
Contact Phone Number: +90 312 210 36 25
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