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1st June 2016 no.79

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About us 4 K.A.NE. Staff 6 New EVS’s 8 Smile to stay positive – embodied cognition in action 10 Home 14 How to survive to the big fat greek Easter 16 Songs of EVS 20 My hometown 22 SHORT MOVIES NIGHT 24 A shared past and similarities between two countries 28

Editor: Maciek Cover fotos: Maciej Janiszewski Design: Maciej Janiszewski

Staff Members Of Kane: Filaretos Vourkos Fotini Arapi Jelena Scepanovic Nantiana Koutiva

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EVS: Magda Gucman Marjolaine Bencharel Lucia Dos Santos Anna Jolivet Maciej Janiszewski Aurora Passone RĂźya Hazar Armagan Tokat Oskar Schrattenecker Marie-noelle Bondois

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About us

I’m Lucia, I am 22 years old and I’m from Spain. I am a volunteer in the Youth Center. I consider myself a person enthusiastic, active and responsible, and I think that is very important to be open-minded and to have a positive attitude, that’s why I´m ready to live the experience and learn all I can. Hi everyone ! My name is Anna, I’m 21 and I come from France. I’m an engineering student in Marseille and I took a break from school to come here in Kalamata. I’m working in the KEFIAP Center and in the therapeutic horse-riding project, so I like horse-riding of course but also football and cinema. Hi, my name is Maciek. I’m 25 and I come from Poland. I like music, movies and spend time with people who have a dark sense of humor. If you like the same things, you can find me around.

Hello, my name is Marie-Noëlle, I’m 24 years old and I’m from Lille in France. After my studies and after to created an artistic association, I wanted discover new places, another cultures and meet people. That’s why I decided to do an EVS in Kalamata, Greece where I’m Volunteer in the Youth Center. Also, my project is to make videos and I hope create an exhibition with local artist Geiá sou ! I am Marjolaine, 27y/o from France (Marseille). I am a globetrotter and really curious about Greece so I will be ready fo any trips around ! I am also an art and culture lover and I will work for the street festival.By the way, I wanted to share with you one of my favorite quotes « Great things are done by a series of small things brought together » - Vincent Van Gogh

See you around :) Hi! My name is Magda, I’m 25yo, and I come from Warsaw, Poland. I’m a freshly graduated psychologist, experienced in leading workshops for children, youth, and adults. I love mountain hiking, cycling, and canoeing. Here in Greece I work at the Youth Centre, where I also teach Polish. I’m looking forward to meeting you!

K.A.NE’

Hello, I am Filaretos Vourkos. For the last 10 years I am working in the field of Non-formal education as a volunteer, youth worker and youth trainer. 6 years ago, I decided to create the Youth Centre of Kalamata, in order to initiate youth work in Kalamata and promote active citizenship as factor for change.

Hi my name is Fotini Arapi and I am project manager in K.A.NE. organization and responsible, among other things, for all sending motilities (sending EVS volunteers, participants in training courses, interns, etc). Apart from my work in K.A.NE., I also volunteer in the Youth Centre of Kalamata, a volunteer initiative managed by a team of local volunteers. I am very proud of and I love the Youth Centre, its dynamic atmosphere, and most of all, its natural inclusiveness that allows everybody to feel “at home” there. See you around :-D

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Hi, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m Jelena Scepanovic, an EVS coordinator in KANE and the volunteer of the Youth center. I came from Montenegro 2012 as an EVS volunteer. I really liked the idea of the Youth center and the work that KANE does, so I decided to stay and be part of it.

My name is nantiana! Im 23 yo. I live in kalamata! I were living for 5 years in patras! I were studying there greek philology and now im teaching greek to youth center in kalamata

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Hi there; I’m Armagan, a new EVS volunteer of K.A.NE from Turkey, let me introduce myself in a summary. I was born in Diyarbakır-Turkey in December 1987, lived there until 18 years old, then I got the opportunity to study university in Izmir-TR. I studied the labour economics and industrial relations’ bachelor’s degree. Meanwhile I worked in the airport as a passenger service agent for a while, then during my last year I worked for customer relations centre of Turkish Airlines. When I could finally graduate, I found the chance to move and work in Athens-Greece for more than a year. Now as I’m happy to be a part of EVS team of KANE. I’ll be here for a year. I’m looking forward to know you better and work with you all.

Hello to everyone! I’ve just took my university degree in Psycology, I love talking and discovering people’s worlds and I hope this is going to be a great experience to do it. I like living in contact with nature and music as well, I’m a singer and I love swing music simply because it makes you happily dancing without realizing it, and this is how everyone should take life in general: smiling, being optimistic and appreciating everything that life gives you, the bad days too! I truly believe that travelling and being open-minded with other cultures is the best way to learn more things and to grow up with ourselves.

EVS’s

Hello my name is Oskar Schrattenecker, I am 18 years old and from Linz/Austria. I am doing Evs in KalamataThe main reason for me to do Evs was because i didn ́t know what I wanted to do in my future so hopefully I get orientation during my Evs. Also since first of January in Austria you can do a long term Evs instead of your military service, so this was a nice opportunity. I started my Evs one month ago on 18. of April and my project lasts for one year, I work in the Youth center of Kalamata. Me and 6 other Volunteers live in an apartment near the Youth center, The first month was really nice, my roommates and colleagues were really friendly to me, they gave me a warm welcoming. In the first month I experienced very much, since it was Easter in Greece we had a few days off and I did many Activities with my Roommates. We were at a Farm helping to renovate it, we made a boat trip and of course we were at the Beach. Right now all the enthusiasm of the first impression kinda stopped and everyday life began, and I really enjoy it.

Hi, This is Rüya from Istanbul,Turkey. I am 28 years old. I have studied Maritime Transportation and Management Engineering in Istanbul Technical University. Then, i started working on tanker ships as an officer. So, i was once an old mariner, than after leaving ships become a full time traveller and now i am a volunteer in Kalamata until next middle of May:). I am into sports, cultural activities and travel.

Smile to stay positive – embodied cognition in action

Is it possible to make our perception of the world more positive by simply smiling, even when there is no reason to do that? Our bodies and minds are intertwined in constantly active feedback loops. It means that not only what happens in our brains influences our bodies, but also – what happens with our bodies (posture, motorics, information coming from senses) influences our cognitive and emotional processes. Just by straining or blocking the right muscles we can influence our (or somebody else’s) moods, opinions, and more. Embodied cognition, also called embodiment, is an idea that human mind is largely shaped by a form of human body. This idea was born in

XVIII century’s Kant’s philosophy and was later developed by some philosophers in XX century. Nowadays, scientists interested in this field agree that all cognitive and affective processes (for example mental constructs such as categories, or various cognitive tasks like making conclusions, evaluating and so on) are influenced by what is happening with our bodies – muscles straining, posture and situation, all senses but also more generally – interaction between body and its surroundings. The theory is based on an assumption that our knowledge is in a sense based on experiencing the event with occurrence of the same sensual and affective processes that accompanied the original perception of stimuli. Such cogni-

tive processes as remembering or planning are sometimes called “embodied simulation” because it is assumed that a part of our sensual and affective experiences is replayed in sensual systems. And what does experimental science say? In 1980 scientists asked people to move their heads vertically, as if they were nodding to give their approval, or horizontally, as if they were showing their disapproval. During these activities, subjects heard negative or positive statements about their university and were supposed to evaluate how strongly they agree with these sentences. People who were moving their heads vertically while hearing a positive statement agreed with it more than people who were moving their heads horizontally. In different study subjects were supposed to evaluate neutral ideograms while pushing the table from top or from the

bottom. This way either flexors or extensors were active. Flexing caused higher grading of neutral stimuli, which researched explained by stating that in real life flexing is connected more with positive objects, that we want to bring closer to us, whereas extending is connected with pushing away negative objects. In a study from 2010 researchers controlled the time needed to read sentences with positive and negative emotional values. They found that after injecting Botox around a muscle responsible for example for frowning eyebrows, and so – expressing unpleasant emotions such as anger – the time needed to read the sentences with a negative emotional meaning was significantly longer than without Botox. Botox injections did not have an influence on reading times of emotionally positive sentences. This lead the researchers to conclusion that injecting Botox might impair recogni-

tion of language or at least pictures were the same but reimpairs understanding it. searchers were also wondering if the way of holding will Perhaps the most well known evoke emotion even if there experiment on this subject is no outside stimuli (picture). was conducted in 1988. The The results supported the hystated question was: might pothesis: even when subjects facial muscles’ activity influ- were holding a marker with ence emotional experiences their teeth only while evaluatand behaviour? In the first ing and not while looking at study subjects were hold- the picture, their rates were ing a marker in a way that higher in a ‘teeth’ condition. made specific muscles active. When they were hold- One of the conclusions we ing it with teeth, it activated can draw from above studies muscle that is active when we is: if you start seeing everysmile, while holding it with thing in dark colours – try smillips blocked the activation of ing a little more. Even if there said muscle. A control group is nothing to smile about, the was holding a marker in their mere muscles straining will non-dominant hand. Subjects positively colour your cogniwere told that research con- tion and affect. But be careful siders psychomotoric coordi- – companies might use this nation. They were evaluating tricks as easily as you can! If funny pictures, first graded by you see a funny commercial, experts as moderately funny. think twice before buying adThe grades were highest for vertised product – maybe you ‘teeth’ condition and lowest evaluate it higher because you for ‘lips’ condition. In the sec- smile a lot while watching the ond study the procedure and ad?

Sources and further reading: Cacioppo, J.T., Priester, J.R., Berntson, G.G. (1993). Rudimentary determinants of attitudes. II: Arm flexion and extension have differential effects on attitudes, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 65(1), 5-17. Havas, D. A., Glenberg, A. M., Gutowski, K. A., Lucarelli, M. J., & Davidson, R. J. (2010). Cosmetic use of botulinum toxin-A affects processing of emotional language. Psychological Science, 21(7), 895â&#x20AC;&#x201C;900. Glenberg, A.M, Havas, D.A., Becker, R., Rinck, M. (2005). Grounding Language in Bodily States: The Case for Emotion [in:] Zwaan, R., Pecher, D. (eds.). The Grounding of Cognition: The Role of Perception and Action in Memory, Language and Thinking. NY: Cambridge University Press. Strack, F. M., Leonard L., Stepper, S. (1988). Inhibiting and Facilitating Conditions of the Human Smile: A Nonobtrusive Test of the Facial Feedback Hypothesis. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 54(5): 768â&#x20AC;&#x201C;777. Wells, G.L., Petty, R.E. (1980). The Effects of Overt Head Movements on Persuasion: Compatibility and incompatibility of Responses, Basic and Applied Social Psychology, 3, 219-230.

by Magda

HOME It’s a wonderful feeling, feeling at home. You’re in a safe place, everything is familiar. I’m talking about your room, your flat but also what’s outside. When a city is your home, there are some things that you know: you know that sometimes in the night, you might get a shower because some water sprinklers are directed to the bike lane. You know this specific spot where cops are often standing. You know the sound of your elevator and exactly how long it takes to bring you downstairs. You know which bar to go to if you want to have a drink and talk, and which other you will go to if you want to party. There is one bakery in town that you think about as your bakery, one supermarket that is your supermarket. You have one favorite spot on the beach, one

favorite coffee place. You know all the different ways to go to the places that you like and how long it will take you. When you leave, you know that you will come back and when you do come back, you feel as much at home as you did when you left, no matter how long you were away, no matter what changed. Goodbye Kalamata

by Anna

How to survive to the big fat greek Easter

Italians and Greeks usually have a lot of cultural points in common, not randomly the saying “Una faccia, una razza” (that means: same face, same race); so after coming for so many times to Greece, and appreciating so much the culture and the people of this country, I was really excited about the idea that finally I could have the possibility to discover how people celebrate such an important religious event here. I spent my “big fat greek” Easter in a small village called Pelekanada, about 35km from Kalamata and now you’re gonna understand why i called it “big” and “fat”! First of all, you have to realize that, (most of all for people that are from villages but that generally live in other cities), Easter often means a possibility to unite all the members of the family: cousins, sisters, uncles, aunts ecc., it doesnt matter if the degree of the kinship is the first or the fifth, everybody will come back to the village to meet each other, and this is what exactly happened to me: at every hours people coming and going in the house wishing “Krònia pollà!”, sitting, talking, drinking, or whatever. Around more than 20 people each day. Suggestion: You will probably be introduced to all of them but don’t feel forced to start a “friendship” with everybody just to be “accepted”: most of them might be simply neighbors that u will never meet again in your all life, and prob16

ably neither the family that is hosting you is so much in confidence with them, so simply be kind with everyone and dont get stressed too much. Greeks are very friendly people, you’ll get the habit! At the end of the orthodox high mass of the Holy Saturday, don’t get scared if you see any bombs, firework and other crazy noises around you, you are not suddenly in Bagdad, you’re still celebrating the greek Easter and a lot of people will come to you to light on your candle from their own and wishing you “krònia pollà” or more often “Kristòs Anesti!” Suggestion: If you are in Greece from at least 2 weeks, you realized for sure that here, “Krònia pollà” (litterally “many happy returns”) is used for everything: birthdays, namedays, christmas, ecc., when somebody tell it to you, you can reply with a simple “thank you”, or “to you too”. But with “Christòs anestei!, if you don’t want to make fool of yourself (as I did), NEVER reply with a “thank you!” because they are telling you that Jesus has risen and if you say it, they might thing that you are an idiot. :) Another important suggestion that I feel to tell you is that if accidentally it is a windy night and these poor candles light off very often, even if it takes a quarter of hour to light on your candle, DON’T EVER tell them “don’t worry, I have the lighter in my pocket!” to quit this embarrassing situation, because they will look at you like lost: the fire of these candles represents the fire of the Holy Spirit that they try to keep alive bringing it home, candle by candle, person by person: if you prefer to use the lighter, you have two possibilities: you might be an engineer or an idiot. 17

Once back home, you should better get ready for the red eggs challenge: all the people of the family will choose an egg from the chest and try to find out which one is the stronger by beating it on the other’s ones. The winner will be the one that at the end of the game will still have his/her egg undamaged. Suggestion: if you want to make up for all the bullshits that you did before and scrape up some respect from them, remember that the smallest eggs are generally the strongest too! ;) The women of the family generally start to cook for Easter since 2 or 3 days before and the men generally think about preparing the lamb and the grill. If it might sounds sexist, I’d invite you to look at it as a cultural tradition that family bring generation by generation. So, from the day before Easter until 2 days after, you will always find the table full of tasting homemade foods, meats, cakes and sweets. Suggestion: Easter is not an event for vegetarian people, but they can survive as well by enjoying the amazing dolmadakia, potatoes or the typical greek salad. Furthermore, they will not get offended if you wont eat the typical easter dish called mageiritsa (a soup made with the innards of the lamb), because it’s something that they prepare more for respecting the traditions than for the taste, in fact a lot of greek doesnt eat it too. Anyway another important thing is: do not EVER show them that your plate is empty. The food for Greeks, as much as for Italians, it’s a matter of principle! Try to taste a little bit of everything, and if your stomach 18

can’t stand anymore, a good thing could be eating slowly: in this way everyone will always see you eating and your plate full of food as well! After the lunch, there is the “nothing”. You will think that you are going to die, that the Lord of the Death is going to keep you soon. You will try to find an explanation for this feeling, you will go out for a walk, or you’ll go playing basketball with the cousins, but the stomach ache will never alloud you to do anything, the blood in your veins will look like stopped from all the fats that you had at lunch, so suddenly you will surrender on the bed, thinking about all the best moments of your life and all the chances that you could take yet. You will slowly fall asleep, thinking that this probably will be your last sleep ever. When everything will seem to go to the end, you will suddenly wake up, stand up going out of your bedroom and realizing that you are still hungry. Because the truth is that even if it killes you, the big fat greek Easter, once you live it, you get the addiction!

by Auri

Songs of EVS May

As everybody know volunteers are music lovers. in this case i will present here our favorite songs which we listening all may , non-stop!

#5 Lionel Riche - Hello Beautiful song about call to somebody and ask if that person still looking for us.

Radiohead - Identikit

Nobody can understand lyrics in that song - Except “i don’t want to know” which is anwser for every question. 20

#3 Skazi - Out of Space Just “I’m gone sending to out of space,To find another race.” bum bum bum

#2 Adele - Hello Another cool song about phonecall.

#1 Ante space re Malaka Song with “Malaka” in title it have to be the best (and it is)

by Maciek

My hometown

Linz is a city located in the north/west of Austria. It is my hometown and even when me and my Family moved very often we always were close to Linz. The city is surrounded with hills, big forests, lakes and Farms. Through Linz flows the Donau, one of the biggest river in Europe, in Summer you can swim in the Donau, the water may seem very dirty because it is more gray then clear but the Water is very clean. On both sides of the River are parks and free spaces, where you can find skate parks, volleyball spaces, playgrounds and much nature. It is very nice to spend the time around the River. Except the nature Linz also has some cultural places, it has much museums with many different subjects, a Opera house and a Music theater.

But Linz also has some places for the young people, the old part of the City has many bars, clubs and cafes. All together Linz is a beautiful city, it has many different sides, for me it is my home where I belong.

by Oskar

SHORT MOVIES NIGHT

26 May 2016, 21:30 I Boukadoura Café I Kalamata After the big success of the Street Opera, we will continue with the second pre-event of KALAMATA STREET FESTIVAL 2016 ! With the participation of the 8th Artfools video festival – Larissa PROGRAM: >> Six of the award-winning short films of Greek and international competition section of the 8th International Film Festival of Larissa (February 2016) and the artfools production movie «The passage of Acherousian» Apostolis Sdralli. Duration 110 minutes 1. « Four quarters », Eirínis Chatzikyriakídou and Eleftherías Kosmá. 2. « Χωρίς γάλα » , 17:00, by Θοδωρής Βουρνάς 3 «Dissonant», 16:30, by Jurgen Willocx 4. «March 4», 15:00, Δημήτρη Νάκου 5. «Gravats» by Alexis Komnakos 6. «Inner Land», 17:05, by Βίβιαν Παπαγεωργίου 24

>> Animated Films Duration 95 minutes 1. Rain Lotus, 7:16, by Joe Chang This seven-minute animated film uses water and ink to create a visual experience on screen, creating a mood from a poem which tells a love story of human joys and sorrows. 2. C. Hopper Custom Menswear, 5:48, by Chloe Deaton C. Hopper, a cricket tailor must survive an encounter with the ominous Mayor Dung. 3. Balloon Ride, 5:22, by Evan Hughes The story follows a young boy who is part of a dysfunctional family. He and his mother are victims of domestic violence inflicted by the father. The boy dreams of escaping with his mother, only to wake up to a tragic reality. 4. Farewell, 3:58, by Yu Cheng-Chu Animals are going extinct every day, everyone knows we should protect the environment and save the earth. This animation noticed people that important issue by a different way. 5. One day in july, 2:12, by Hermes Mangialardo One child is playing with the sand on a beach, and a soldier appears with his gun... 6. Masterpiece, 4:08, by Litian Ji Who’s hiding in Monet’s Haystack? What if the Starry Night is not Van Gogh’s imagination? Why Picasso drawing monsters in Gernika? And, who destroy the art and peace? The war. What a masterpiece! 7. The Blue & the Beyond, 9:36, by Youri Dekker The Blue & the Beyond is the story of a young, imaginative man named Charlie, who is searching to find someone like him in a world where he is different in every way. 8. The Big-Headed Boy, 9:04, by Nelson Fernandes A big-headed little boy is being bullied. At night, with the howl of a wolf, he finds the solution for his problem. 9. Εmployee of the day, 15:00, by Christoph J Kellner In a world of mass consumption, overstimulation and performance pressure three people follow their day by day routine. Two of them work on an assembly line. Two of them share a secret. Two of them are part of the show...

10. Living Pictures_2 story, by Tatiana Skorlupkina An original score sets the mood and rhythm for the films, bringing the artist’s paintings to life, and forming a two story. White Bird is a philosophical meditation on eternity, the beauty of nature, and human vanity. Music Academy is the story of a cockroach, who wanders into the classrooms, meets all the musical instruments, and eventually falls into the clutches of an emotional cymbalist…but... it all turns out for the best! 11. Backward run, 3:00, by Damien Megherbi. June 2013. Demonstrators occupy Istanbul’s TaksimGezipark . While the tension and police brutality rise in the streets, the turkish TV broadcasts documentaries about penguins. Tornistan is a self-censored film criticizing this press censorship. 12. L’envol, 4:20, by Damien Megherbi The cage bird dreams of clouds... 13. Resilience, 5:50, by Bianca Howell “Resilience” recounts the tale of a young Mongolian girl’s coming of age as she journeys up a mountain to find closure for something she’s lost. 14. The Beach Boy, 7:50, by Hannes Rall A story of two star-crossed lovers in ancient Vietnam. Based on a traditional folk tale and adapted for animation in a style inspired by local Asian art styles. 15. Olilo, 5:44, by Ao Li Olilo is a 2D animation that tells the story of an introverted girl held captive by her own semi-transparent personal space. Created through a combination of traditional frameby- frame and digital drawing. The film focuses on love and sharing. 16. Der Erlkönig, 4:17, by Małgorzata Miklaszewska An animated illustration of a poem Der Erlkönig by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is a story of a father riding through the forest carrying his sick young boy. Son is seeing the Erlking (the figure of a forest spirit) calling and approaching him...

by MarJO

A shared past and similarities between two countries

These two countries are Greece and Turkey as you might guess; they’re not only neighbours, they also share a deep and long heritage of history. Let’s just pretend to forget about political disputes for a while and read a summary of their common history and similar points. Greek and Turkish people made their first contact and relations most probably in the 10th century.

During the period of the Crusades, “turcopoles “ in Greek: τουρκόπουλοι, which means sons of Turks» were locally recruited mounted archers employed by the Byzantine Empire. The crusaders, first encountered turcopoles in the Byzantine army during the First Crusade. These auxiliaries were the children of mixed Greek and Turkish parentage and were at least nominally Christian, although some may have been practicing Muslims. Then in1071, in consequence of a great battle between Byzantine Empire and Seljuk Empire, through the strong domination Seljuk Turks with the Sultanate of Rum(Roman in old Turkish) firstly in the east part of Anatolia/Minor Asia, then all around in Minor Asia they’ve started settling. This is how and approximately when Greeks and Turks have started their first cultural influence on each other. For instance, If you’d listen an ancient Byzantine hymn and then a classical Turkish art music, you could notice the big similarity in the melody, feeling, tone and style. Byzantine hymn: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q8i0CYs-CM Classical Turkish art music: https://youtu.be/0RMy3mP0ahY?t=36s

Following the collapse of the Seljuk Rum Empire, the Ottoman Empire had been established already in the northwest of Minor 28

Asia. Through their conquests, domination in all Minor Asia, Greek islands on the Aegean, Macedonia and Balkan peninsula, eventually Constantinople (the capital of Byzantine Empire) was fallen and became the new capital of Ottoman Empire. During the following years and centuries the conquest of Constantinople, the majority lands of modern Greece had come under the domination of the Ottoman Turks. Approximately for about 400-500 years Greeks and Turks had lived together under the sovereignty of one state. Unfortunately it’s true that our shared history is full of tragedies, wars, many cruelties against each other, but not only these! Also, we, the people of Greece and Turkey actually shared a lot in culture, music, dance, cuisine, languages and also architecture of the historical churches and mosques. We had learned a lot from each other. Maybe, the rest of Europe and the world might be mistaken to know only about our wars, conflicts and hostility for each other. But I deeply object to this stereotypical view and I suggest to focus more on our similarities, common points and to learn and respect our differences. I can hear that you might say “enough with the history lesson!” so let me continue with more fun part; Some common words and phrases that both exist in Greek and Turkish; Νταηλικια(Dayilikia) - Dayılık - Swashbuckling Μουσαφίρης(Mousafiris) - Misafir - Guest Αφέντης(Afendis) - Efendi - Master-Lord Σοκάκι(Sokaki) - Sokak - Backstreet Κουραμπιές(Kourabies) - Kurabiye - Cookie

For much more examples please visit this source: http://www. phrasebase.com/archive2/turkish/turkish-greek-similar-words. html Two of the most known common songs in Greek and Turkish languages; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8DsPFkT2pw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fwU_UkY3sQ Thank you for reading.

Turkish or Greek Coffee? Almost the same.

Baklava - Mpaklava

Stereotypes about Greeks and Turks

Sharing ouzo between the national flags.

Byzantine Empire Flag

Sultane of Rum(Seljuks) Flag

Turkish Dรถner

Aghia Sophia in Istanbul/Constantinople

Greek Gyros

Sultanahmet (Blue) Mosque in Istanbul

by Armagan

The volunteers responsible for this publication are hosted in Greece in the framework of the European Erasmus+ programme, KA1/youth - European Voluntary Service. This project has been funded with support from the European Commission. This publication [communication] reflects the views only of the author, and the Commission cannot be held responsible for any use which may be made of the information contained therein.