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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Dear all,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><U>me</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have been trying to introduce OST in Turkey for nearly 2
years now.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I studied at best schools in Turkey, had a chance to work
in Italy, travel around europe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and visit India during OSonOS 2005. </FONT><FONT
face=Arial>I speak french, english, a little bit italian and of course
turkish.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I studied at very good schools in Turkey, had a chance to
work in Italy, to travel around europe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and to visit India. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I recently had a chance to go to Berlin, participate a
training by Holger about consultancy and meet Michael
Pannwitz</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and some other colleagues there.</FONT></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have invested (am still investing) all my time, my
energy,my money,my relationships into that. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I have already contacted many NGO's, universities,
consultancy firms, political parties, everbody</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>around me........</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am doing this because i believe in OST and i feel
that it's needed everywhere and </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>critically, urgently needed in the environment i am
living.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I stopped calculating long time ago how much all
these efforts would bring me in terms of money,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>career and future....otherwise i would have stopped all my
efforts, bought a little house </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and found a job which pays me and this would
have been much more rational.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>If you consider that i studied Business Administration in
english, i am taught all these</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>calculations.</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Next week we ( Holger, Michael, Jo and me) will have a
teleconference on "how</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>we can cooperate in the introduction of OST into
Turkey"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Valerie is not participating to the conference, i am a bit
sorry about that as she</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>would understand better my situation because she lives in
South Africa. I am currently reading</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>PoP book and am very impressed by what they did
together ( valerie and harrison) there.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Anyway i will probably go on my way with or without your
support. I am already negotiating</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>and reached an agreement to open space for about 100 young
people. This is a volunteer</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>work. I am ready to do that without having a proper
training about OST facilitation.</FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><U>OST as a business in Turkey</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><U><FONT face=Arial></FONT></U> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I am looking forward to see </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* that OST is accepted as a tool here and people are ready
to pay it.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* many colleagues joining me with this work and see
their future in that area.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* that OST becomes <STRONG>a must</STRONG> in
the development of EU projects...where most of the money</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>is coming to Turkey</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* that it becomes a subject taught at the
universities</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* that it's on the newpapers and media</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>* that foreign investments, foreign companies bring OST to
Turkey.......this is another source</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>which brings jobs and money here.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><U>WE, OS Community</U></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><U><FONT face=Arial></FONT></U> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I really which we could cooperate to make organised
efforts, together, for OST to spread</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>around the world...more and more money to spend
there....more resources are</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>allocated into this area....more workforce is
engaged...more investment are made..so on.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>I wish this yes for my future...for future of
OST....for the change we would bring to life,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>to organizations, to young people etc, to
everybody......... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>This is a little long invitation letter but short if you
consider the time i spent ( am still spending)</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>to put these together.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Thank you,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Funda</FONT></DIV>
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