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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT color=#000000><FONT face="Times New Roman"> The sunny Istanbul of yesterday was cloudy and sunny together today. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The weather reflected our hope and sadness. Changed every second. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></FONT></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><FONT color=#000000>Last Friday we l</FONT><SPAN style="COLOR: #333333">ost one of Turkey’s symbols of tolerance, patriotism, freedom of speech, courage and democracy. The Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was murdered by a racist who’s under the age of 18.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> Today p</SPAN>eople were shouting at the funeral saying we are <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>all “Hrant” “we are all Armenians” but maybe we had to shout like “we are all Ogün Samasts” the murderer, that child!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Sorry for this. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I grew up in Izmir Turkey... with my Jewish and Armenian friends at school. My family was Albanian. I can pray that i don’t remember any tiny discussion with my friends about our religion or roots. We were never afraid of each other. But racism is still alive here as everywhere around the globe.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">2007 is the year of Peace and Tolerance in Turkey, Unesco supports some of the events for peace and it will also be a year of Rumi, the great sufi poet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Now this funeral is just at the beginning of a year which is celebrated as “Tolerance” and “<FONT face="">Rumi” year</FONT>. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman"> Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi, who was a fountain of love, was buried by muslims jews and christians together in Konya.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">It seems it will rain now. <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I remember the only song i love from Sting : Fragile .. “How fragile we ARE” </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I hope the rain will wash our hearts. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Dink was telling people that he lives like a dove... </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">The world shoots the doves sometimes, and today i feel i am Ogün Samast more than Hrant. </FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I had a meeting in the morning, i wanted to go to the funeral but i could only watch the end of the ceremony -which was at an Armenian church- on tv, </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">when it was over, the tv channel, which is one of the best here, without giving a break, started to broadcast the Oscar nominees live.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">I hope millions are really decisive about peace today. I hope this will bring us real transformation, transformation for peace.</FONT></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">Today i oftenthink about my friend Aris, we </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">collaborate with my Armenian friend since a couple of months. I try to help him for a movie festival named Dance Camera in Istanbul (</FONT><A href="http://www.dancecameraistanbul.com/"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=#0000ff>www.dancecameraistanbul.com</FONT></U></A><FONT face="Times New Roman">) and he'll assists us on a “peace” project gathering dance, movies for peace, OST, kite production and music. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We are waiting for the sponsor to reply. They seem to accept the project but they will reply after the 2nd of Feb. If they say ok, we will start working for organizing a series of 3 day events for peace in some of the universities in Istanbul. There’s a lot more to do now... <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>we need love. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0cm 0cm 0pt; TEXT-INDENT: 35.4pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #333333"><FONT face="Times New Roman">We need a lot of help from this community. And thanks a lot for everything. </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P>
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