The first time, I heard there is a project of combining people, particularly Armenians and Turks, thought that is what I looking for. I have done it with a greeks (Turg..?) and suggested to do with armenians but became of several reason refused.

The first Armenian I met during my life was an American Armenian whose father was from Diyarbakır, the city I came from. So it is obvious, Armenian used to live there because when you visit old city so many armenian churches, houses etc. welcome you.

And I used to think, it is time to lift prejudges discover that, people are quite different than the way which our school books talk about. I was expecting to see people, open, ready to communicate and discuss, never mean solved problems in the minds but can take favour from the contrubiton that the others can supply.

I had a very early beginning, almost 6:30 AM. I was the first participant, till afternoon when Dikran arrived who was coming from Syria. And in the evening rest of the group.

The first day of the programme, was better than my expectation, everybody quite nice and ready to comunicate. The lectures were very intensive but scholar. Enjoyed whole subjected.

And, I was partipating in the newspaper board. We really tried to do our best for it and this morning when I read it, thought it worths…

It was a dense day. After having the courses, finally we had chance for sightseeing in the city. Visited a great mosaic museum which I know, one of the rare mosaic museums in the world. Also St. Pierre church was a fantastic place, a church in the rock…

And finally Harbiye. A nice view. Even you cannot see the fall, it was nice to hear of the water and imagine :) And back hotel, having fun in the reception. Almost 3 AM. Bed time…

(Saturday) It was a usual day, but liked the lectures, particularly the one about Nationalism. We had a chance to discuss and hear different approaches.

After the class, some uf us went to Lunapark and had a great fun…

(Sunday) After the course visited Vakıfköy and folk-danced, all Armenians, Kurd and Turk…