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editorial I do believe that during these days here, in KabataĹ&#x; you can carry it with pride. You the chances are pretty have the chance to prove to strong that you are of Turkish others how big of a soldier you descent. If that is so, I would are. Are you actually a leaf, rain, like to ask you, to think about You, on the other hand, thunder girl or are you 'just a your name. have names you can associate girl'. I hope that it would be the As far as I know, literally yourself with. And I would love first time. all the names mean something. it, if you would do so. With this, all I wanted to Soldiers, silk, streams, owers Since my arrival in Is- say is be proud of yourself and and everything else what we tanbul, I have met tens of new do not be afraid to show it to can find surrounding us. people. The main thing is, that others. Show your true self and I would like you to think some of them carry their name you can fulfill that, what is writabout your name. For you see, as an advertisment. Yet no one ten in your name. I hope you names in other places, across of them has a name with a neg- rise to the challenge and the Europe, do not carry a strong ative meaning. None. So why best of luck to you all! meaning always. For instance, would you not carry your name technically, my name derives with pride? Yours truly - K.C. Dear reader,
from the Upper German name Karl. Meaning - strong man. But that is somewhat vague and there are no guarantees that is actually so.
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Tuna Dökmeci (Turkey)
Ecem Aydoğan (Turkey)
Manar Youssef (Sweden)
Cem Horasan (Turkey)
Berk Manav (Turkey)
Hugo Dürr (Sweden)
Tua Malmberg (Sweden)
Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds (Switzerland)
Şayen Tokyay (Turkey)
Can Şehirlioğlu (Turkey) journo/video editor
useless pockets Manar Youssef shares has a lot of stu in her pocket. The majority of it - useless. Let her tell you what not to take along with you.
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e all know that we have had useless things in our pockets sometimes during our life. Somethings you find important are totally irrelevant to others so I am gonna narrow them down . First of all a hamster. Seriously there is cages for a reason, leave it in there. Nobody wants a rat runinng around during a session. Then there is the most stupid one of them all, a waterfilled bottle without a lid. Do you intentially want it to look like you have had an accident everytime you sit down? No, did not think so. The most classic of them all, a toothpick, you must be suicidal if you want to have something sticking in you all the time, just saying.
Now that we are in Istanbul some of you might be sad of the lack of growing mustasches and would like to have a fake one instead. It does not work like that, you are in Turkey, do it as the natives and grow your own!
is really nothing I like to encourage. All of you believers out there, leave your prayer book at home. Not even God can save you from the exhaustion you are about the feel during EYP.
The worst one is the fold out bike. My question is when Euro is the most useless exactly will you have time to ride it? Sure it fits in your pocket thing! but that can be misinterpreted, is that a bike in your pocket or are you just really happy to see Some of you might even me? like to play police sometimes and carries around handcuffs The last and most useless in your pockets, please people, of them all is the Euro, please leave them in your bedroom! leave that currency at home, it does not have a value here, Now back to the ham- and we all know that in ten ster, why do you have crumbs year time copper will be worth in your pocket? Not only does more. the hamster live in there, you also want to feed it in you pocket? They eat seeds and nuts not crumbs, leave them out of there! If you are walking around with Rebecka Black's single in your pocket you have to, either be related to the devil or just enjoy watching people in pain. What I really do not understand though is the pocket inside a pocket, pocketception
pocketception Have you ever wondered about the small pocket in your jeans? Hugo Dürr takes a shot at it. Useless or usefull?
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ost people nowadays wear trousers at some point in their life. These trousers will, more often than not, bear pockets for the purpose of storing things. However, some pockets serve the purpose not of storing items, but rather another pocket. Thus, the question arises; has modern day fashion made our lives more practical, or are they simply making a nuisance of things?
convenient when storing smaller, spare objects. A popular filler for the pockets in question are coins.
to your next EYP experience, is to run. Fast. You instinctively tear for the bus, while placing your phone into your pocket. You being you (aka awesome) Coins are small and usu- make it to the bus. Win. Howally seen as spare, because not ever, in the hasty act of placing many of us feel the necessity to your phone in your pocket, you make the effort and bring out put it in the same pocket as all our wallets and purses every of your coins, and now your time we receive a few measly screen is scratched beyond becoins in change, and place the lief. Not win. inconveniently rounded coins into the squared wallet or purse. I’ll let you clever people Thus, we leave the coins in our be the judge on the whether the After yet another success pockets, because that is more fashion industry should be held in 2010 with Inception, Christo- convenient and consequently, accountable for your reparation pher Nolan has truly coined the pocketception prospers. bills. All I aim to do is entice imconcept of "something within agination, fuel inspiration, cataitself ”. It is now hipster-marked lyse action, the rest is up to you. to add "-ception” to the end Imagine tweeting about of any word, in an attempt to your latest EYP mess with someone’s mind. Bringing the example of pockets, and thus pocketception, into the limelight, I pose the query; is pocketception a worthwhile concept, are these smaller inner-pockets we all have just above our primary pockets actually practical or are they in the way?
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However, the risks of carrying coins in ones pockets are large, especially when one owns an android or iPhone. Envision the scenario; you’re tweeting about your latest amazing EYP experience while walking to the bus stop, when the bus hurdles past in a flurry. One could argue that Your only chance of catching these small, extra pockets are this bus, which will take you
pocket size it! Wondering where to put the pen? No worries, Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds knows all about perfect timing.
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ever again be unprepared for Team-Building, Committee Work or General Assembly! This is a short guide to the small things you should carry with you, as they will make your life easier and your EYP experience even better. While you might have some ideas as to what you’ll bring to the different activities, I am going to try to be helpful and help you by telling you what to take along and what to leave in your pocket.
Committee Work
General Assembly
Things you’ll need during committee work include...
Things you will need during General Assembly...
• The in EYP omnipresent post-it’s, in case your chair doesn’t provide you with enough. • Strong opinions, good points and an interest in what is going on. • Pens; many of which you will lose, break or lend to your fellow delegates. • Respect for your chair, your fellow delegates and of course for your journo • Chocolate; committee work can be hard and exhausting work, a bit of chocolate can work wonders, trust me! • Your very own personal notes on your topic, always try to prepare as well as possible, you’ll have much more fun that way.
• GA goes on for quite long and if you’re doing it right, you’ll be exhausted so bring some kind of salty snack, especially if you don’t trust the organizers with the snacks they’ll be providing which of course you should... • A pen, or multiple ones if you want to be very popular in your committee. • Post-its and some other paper to take notes during the day. • The Resolution-Booklet is one of the most important items, don’t forget bringing it, as well as any notes and speeches you’ll have prepared! • Cough tablets such as Halls; all the talking you’ll be doing and the excitement might damage your voice so take care of it.
Things you’d better leave in your pocket during this activity:
Things you’d better leave in your pocket during this activity:
• Any prejudices you might have. • Fear of voicing your opinions, they are worth being heard and contemplated by your fellow delegates. • Your phone; playing on it, texting or even making phone calls during committee work is just plain rude, don’t do it!
• Your phone; this should be turned off or on silent during the whole of General Assembly! • Apply the same rule to any other noisy gadget you might be bringing along. • During General Assembly, please refrain from reading through the newspaper, I know it’s brilliant; you should still pay attention and participate.
pocket creativity Pockets boring? You’ve got to be kidding me! Cem Horasan gives you 5 creative ways of 'pocketing'
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ockets have been in our lives for millennia and they still do help us a lot. However, their help have long been forgotten. They always help us carry things around, that is what they are made for. But, one should always remember that pockets can be fun sometimes. So here you go, the list of ten creative things that you can do with pockets:
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Magic tricks. Yes, master level tricks are hard to manage just by the help of a pocket but you can do some magic tricks using your pockets. Moreover, you may just have fun as well as impressing some girls with some cool tricks. Who needs sleeves when you got pockets, right?
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I believe that pockets ter that if you get frustrated or should not only be on raged in your committee work you could cut your pocket and clothes. Instead they should be everywhere. wear it as a hat to show how off topic your friends have gone. Have you ever thought how it would be to have a cookie pockInserting stuff in peo- et in your coffee or milk mug? ple’s pockets that are Well some people on the interhard to pull out and net have and it seems like a good watching people sweat, idea to have one of those mugs. trying to pull those out would What about cutting your be quite the fun if you’re lookLast but not least you pocket and wearing it as ing for a little bit of amusement. can set your pockets on a hat? If you liked the fire – without harming idea it’s fairly simple to yourself of course – if do. You just need some scisyou’re crazy enough to take this sors and of course a pocket afchallenge. Use caution though.
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Pocket food - Tua Malmberg’s top three Crisps. Delicious pocketed crisps.
What is a pocket without brownies in it? A sad pocket.
What happens when you have finished all of your pocketed food? Huge backside.
A chair in Life in plastic? Maybe metal? Tua Malmberg tries to fold the chairs, whatever they’re made of. Turkish Melisa Kumar, the Chair of ITRE, fills her pockets with her vibratemode phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find water, her sister and lots of balloons. If Melisa were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be a little gadget that color codes things for your convenience. Romanian-Hungarian Sebastian Hosu, Vice-President and Chair of AFCO, keeps different things in different pockets. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find his guitar, his music collection/iPod and something to write on. If Sebastian were a New Idea from Eurasia he would be the idea of getting over nationalism in favor of a more united continent. Turkish Öykü Talı, Chair of AFCO fills her pockets with her cellphone, her lipstick and hair pins. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find all kinds of Italian food, her friends and a comfortable bed. She has no idea what New Idea from Eurasia she would be if she was one. Polish Magdalena Pietras, Chair of INTA, fills her pockets with her iPhone and a lighter. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find coffee, cigarettes and her mobile phone. And if Magdalena were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be a kebab. Turkish Aslı Öncel, Chair of JURI, fills her pockets with her phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find Şeyma Taşel, her phone and her ID. If Aslı were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be chocolate without calories but with the same taste. Austrian Vera Geck, Vice President and Chair of JURI, fills her pockets with chewing gum, a lucky charm her Mother once gave her, lip balm and her phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find a collection of sunglasses, sparkling water and notebook with a pencil. If Vera were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be an environmentally friendly, sustainable and sweet kebab.
your pocket Finnish Henriikka Hannula, Chair of AFET fills her pockets with random bus, metro and museum tickets from her travels. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find her little sister, her books and her “beloved iPhone”. Because of her love of History Henriikka would not be a New Idea from Eurasia – She would be an ancient one. Dutch Dirk Hofland, Chair of SEDE, fills his pockets with his wallet, his cellphone, keys and pens. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find his watch, his bike and his cat. And if Dirk were a New Idea from Eurasia he would be the idea of a multicultural society. Italian-German-French Giada Benfatto, Chair of EMPL, fills her pockets with coins, keys, a lighter and notes. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find her keys, her iPod and a shotgun. Her favorite part of a session is the beginning of it when meet all of the people in happy chaos.
Turkish Ali Kerem Araboglu, the Chair of ENVI, fills his pockets with his key, his wallet and his iPhone. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find his iPhone, his headphones and his friends. If Ali Kerem were a New Idea from Eurasia he would be the idea of establishing a “sports culture” among young people. British Dunja Tanovic, the chair of FEMM, fills her pockets with lip balm, coins and her – a little bit too large – phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find her brother. Dunja does not know what New Eurasian Idea she would be, but she hopes the session will help her figure it out. Turkish Şeyma Taşel, Chair of LIBE fills her pockets with her phone and her Sprite Lip-Smacker. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would find her computer, her typewriter and Melisa Kumar. If Şeyma were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be the idea of introducing Compulsory Beatles Classes for High Schools around Eurasia.
Under^ Tuna Dökmeci talks about perhaps the most underestimated part of clothing ever made. Can you guess what it is?
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ou might think that the greatest invention of all times is the wheel. It is the basic of every single mechanical invention that followed, or the printing machine, for it made books accessible to everyone, or the antibiotics for their contribution to medicine. Big deal. How about your biggest helpers which are so often taken for granted?
tors and such great inventions have been either neglected or underestimated throughout the centuries. Some, like Nikola Tesla, have been later recognised for their contribution to the humanity. Some, however, like the pockets and their anonymous inventor(s) still remain to be ignored.
without. That is why, I see it as my duty to make you stop for a second and cherish these little can’t-do-without helpers.
Let’s start with the practical side of the pockets. According to Hegel, one of the principles of dialectics is that the quantity transforms itself into quality in time. Apply this You might, and you to pockets, and you’ll see how probably do, think that this important they are. Have you ignorance is a rightful one. I ever realised how many times Underestimation. That bet that many of you never per day you use your pockets? is, and has always been the big- stopped to think what a won- I counted for two hours each gest fault of the humankind. derful thing a pocket is as you time I used my pocket, and it Such great artists, such great were busy with filling it with all was already 12. What else on philosophers, such great inven- sorts of things you couldn’t live earth does a human being use
Estimation^ that much? Especially if you’re a man and therefore don’t use a bag, the number increases even more. And don’t get me started when it comes to for what we use the pockets. Because the answer is basically everything. You put your phone, your keys, papers to cheat on an exam, money, snack, your lipstick, your ID, a pocket book, you can leave a small message in the pocket of your beloved one, you can make anonymous jokes by putting funny notes in pockets of your friends, and according to Hollywood romantic-comedies you can even propose through pockets. The possibilities are simply limitless. But the most brilliant part of pockets is that, unlike
most of the practical inventions, they have an emotional and nostalgic side which every once in a while softens everyone’s heart. Whenever I go through my pockets, I discover some small things I had forgotten about. No matter how little they cost, or how unimportant they are, they make my day. A train ticket to a city where you had the time of your life, a bill of a dinner that you had with your best friends a long time ago, a coin from a foreign country or a name of a book that someone had written down for you… Finding such things in your pockets can make you as happy as a child who is just given a chocolate bar, it helps you think about things you hadn’t thought for a while, it reminds you the peo-
ple whom you hadn’t seen for a long time, it is a way of Mother Nature telling you that time run fast. So you see dear reader, there is much to the pockets than we give credit for. Not only they are simply the most useful and the most used invention of the world, every now and then they work as an old photograph by offering you little things from the past. Thus said, I would like to conclude my words by calling you to give the importance to the pocket it had always deserved but never received.
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Tua Malmberg & Can Şehirlioğlu had a talk with him! The person that we all love to listen to - Tiago. Could you describe yourself in one sentence? Describe myself in one sentence… Well, I’ll just use the standard I guess! Hi, I’m Tiago 25 going on 26 and I come from Lisbon Portugal. It’s as basic as it gets I guess! Do you have a passion, something that you really, really love? Apart from EYP. Cooking! It’s something that I really, really love doing! Cooking, yes absolutely.
developed into something that I really, really enjoy doing and I do it. But, that’s a funny thing for instance. You would assume that I love cooking and therefore I cook for myself a lot, but that’s not true. If I have people over, I love to cook. So it’s a lot based on entertaining people, having people over and seeing their reactions. I really like to see their reactions! Over the years, this was seven years ago, people have developed their own little favorites and every now and then I’ve got friends saying “Hey, when are you going to make that again?” and I say “I don’t know, we’ll see”. It’s always really cool, I enjoy that. I enjoy cooking for people.
Why? Quite frankly, because I’m not too bad at it and I think it’s always easy to like things we are naturally good at. In the beginning when I started cooking more seriously, other than the odd steak and chips, I started cooking because I had to. I moved out and I moved out on my own, basically, and I was eighteen which is fresh and I knew how to cook basic things. You know, slowly but steady I started to experiment with a few other things and when they came out alright, you know, I had a house to myself basically so I started inviting people over and then more people over and then other people over and then I would try the same thing with different people or try the same thing with slight differences and serve to the same people coming over again. I don’t know, I just started experimenting with things and I figured out that, you know, I’m not too bad at this. I could manage a few things and I picked up a lot of tips and a lot of tricks from other people as well. And it really
Is it the same thing with EYP, is that why you like being President and make sessions for people? It is, it is you’re right! To an extent it is actually. There is a funny parallel there! The first time I Presided a session it was an accident. It was not something that was planned. It was just basically because I had to. I applied to this session, together with Vera the Vice President and a friend of ours. One day I got an email saying “You were selected, congratulations.” and I was very happy. Then, a week letter, I get an e-mail saying “Hi, I’m the President of the Session, would you like to be my VP?”. I was super excited about the whole thing, it was the first time I was going to be a VP. A week later I get another e-mail from the Head Organiser saying “The President cancelled, you are now the President.”. I thought: OK, So that’s how it works! It was out of necessity; it was a bit like the cooking thing. And you know, I tried with a bit of this and that and I got a lot of tips, a lot of help in the
beginning, just like with the cooking, and now it is something that I do for the people. This got me thinking about you trying new things with sessions and about the Pocket Theme. Why pockets? Why pockets? We’ve got Kārlis to blame, the Latvian Editor. We’re staying at Kabataş and in Latvian “kabatas“ means “pockets”. A couple of days before the session we were on Skype and I asked him if he had any crazy editorial concepts and he sent me a PDF that I thought looked nice and we talked and he told me that it means “pockets” and that it was just so random that it might work. I said: You know what? If you make it the press-room theme, I’ll make it the unofficial theme of the session. So we did! And here we go, pockets for everyone. Another thing about pockets that you might not know is that, according to a recent survey, most of the delegates of this session would choose to put you in their pocket over every other participant. How do you feel about that? I feel pocketed! What do you put in your pockets? I’m going to sound like a maniac, but I will say it anyway. I always put the exact same things in my pocket, and I always put them in the exact same pock-
ets. In my left front pocket I always put my phone. In my right front pocket I put money, just coins and a lighter. In my right back pocket I always put my wallet and my left back pocket is always free. Do you have any advice to all of the first time EYP:ers? I could spend an hour doing this! Enjoy it. Seriously. It sounds cliché; it sounds like a typical thing to say but it the most important one. Yes, there is competition. Yes, there are nineteen other schools. Yes, they are all very good. Yes, you are very good as well, but enjoy it. The Jury will see that. The people who will select you will see that. If you’re here doing someone a favor, your mother your teacher they will spot that too. So, seriously, enjoy it. And now, we will end this interview by asking the Chair’s favourite question from the Chair’s introduction: If you were a New Idea from Eurasia, which idea would you be? I think I will have to call a Miss India on this one. I would like to be the idea that would solve the problems in Eurasia. I don’t know what that is, but Miss India-me wants to save the children and the planet and do all sorts of good things. I would like to be the one idea, if that’s possible.
Organisers on Berk Manav searches through the souls of the busy ants of this session. The ants of the Bosphorus. Starting with the Deputy Head, Eda Gürdereoğlu, who welcomes you with her heartwarming smile. Short, but filled with fresh ideas you could see her do great attack speeches... if only she was a delegate! Always unlucky, as she says herself, but a lovely friend to share a laugh with, coming from the heart of Bursa.
Attending from Notre Dame de Sion, we have our French girl, Aslı Korkmaz. Catch her reading Camus or Proust in French or translating an old Ottoman excerpt. She loves to read and unbelievably hates shopping. as she says, Aslı was also caught doing Model UN at my school, Robert College.
Energetic and smiling, Furkan Kalender is always there to help. Not only talkative, but also speaks really fast and has many hobbies. A great basketball player, and a true shark in Texas Hold'em, Furkan also loves to solve mindboggling sudoku’s and go to sleep after using all that energy.
A Galatasaray fan. You can see Arda Meriç enjoying a bicycle ride in the summer breeze. Loves to chill and watch a TV show, as much as he does playing basketball or hitting the cinema with his friends on weekends. Can’t wait to swim again,
A true gourmet-to-be, Enescan Karaer, never takes delicious food for granted and is fascinated by Formula 1. Also enjoys paintings and different kinds of music, He is a man of art. Lazy, as he might call himself, could spend a day in front of the computer or just hang out with his friends.
Sad? Just wait until you meet Görkem Uzunyolcu, who can definitely make you smile. With his fresh sense of humor, he is always there for you. A huge Fenerbahçe fan and a future plastic surgeon, he loves French people and admires how they sometimes struggle to talk English.
the bosphorus Staying as a resident on the Bosphorus, İlker Dikme comes from Kocaeli, the neighbor of Istanbul. They say when he plays the guitar and sings before the beautiful view, all the seagulls flock around to admire him. Music is his life, as he plays many other instruments too. One of the youngest of us all, Onur Can Uçarer dreams of being a doctor and cruising all around the world with a yacht. (He might refuse he is the sibling of Eda, but he is actually, trust me on this one.) Also a tennis-player and enjoys playing the guitar.
Our accomodation orga, Tamer Özgen loves travelling. Venice has impressed him a lot as it is his favourite city among all. Also a new learner of guitar and you can always talk to him about the Lord of the Rings, as he is the biggest fan. Also is a great swimmer - started at ten.
Yaprak Damla Yıldırım actually loves to
plan everything by writing it out. Famous for her to-do lists she is a true organiser. Prefers acting over sports and loves to write poems. There she is, daydreaming, or the exact opposite, creating and planning everything around us at the session!
A total genetics freak, Olcay Soloyan wants to study molecular biology. Wants to be done with high school as soon as possible and loves to see the fun side of everything. Often sarcastic and carefree, she is famous for always being able to have fun. So just go up to her for a sincere chat! Another French visitor from Notre Dame de Sion, Ozan Yağcılar's two greatest passions are music and cinema. Great admirer of Robert Downey Jr. as an actor, you can always see Ozan with his camera. Loves a good talk about geography.
Yağmur Yüksel has been playing the piano since was in kindergarten which makes us go: wow! She loves orienteering and is a resident of Kabataş. She is proud to be from Eskişehir and is very protective of her hometown. You can see her hang out around Çırağan with Eda on beautiful Sunday mornings! Zeynep Ceren Topaç has the chance to wake
up and see the beautiful Bosphorus every morning from her school window. Sharing her hometown with Eda, she comes from Bursa and loves to talk a lot - and fast! - Both a president of the MUN Club and a continuing swimmer.
global pockets Have you ever thought about a devil in your pocket? Şayen Tokyay has gathered sayings from all over the World for your pleasure.
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ere or there, now and then, people slap the word pocket in their sentences without thinking how irreplaceable the word is in their linguistics, But no, not only in one specific language. Pocket, as an exquisite word and an esteemed component of idioms, holds a significant position in whole worlds’ linguistics. If you want to find out how this precious word serves for idioms in languages, I hope you are ready to roll to become a respectful expert on pockets’ meanings on a global scale.
open door, huh, Lithuanians? What exactly do we need to have in our pockets to achieve anything, does a piece of parmesan from the Eurovillage of the last session we attended count?
The Devil dances in empty pockets! Secondly, it‘s Turks‘ turn. 'Kimin eli kimin cebinde.' (Who‘s hand is in who‘s pocket). Turkish people love the jumbled relationships and situations entwined and the idiom about jumbled up situations is a meritorious proof for that.
The opening is from Lithuanians. 'Jūs nieko gyvenime pasiekti su tuščiu kišenėje.' Next, a proverb from (One cannot achieve anything with England: 'The devil dances in an empty pocket). Now that one empty pockets.' So, I kindly inwas harsh. And it leaves an vite you to listen what a wise British said and empty your pockets, everyone. It‘s time to wait for the party rocking in your pocket. Following the British saying, it‘s time to tell a little story. Once upon a time, an Italian gentlemen afraid of devils dubsteping in his pocket, began to spend all his time arrang-
ing the budget, deciding how to have a full pocket all his life. Then, suddenly, seven words dropped from his mouth, 'Fare i conti in tasca a qualcuno.' (Coping in someone‘s pocket), and that was left as a legacy to the global pocket linguistics. All in all, hoping that you have a brand new international pocket of pocketful idioms, fresh and precious sayings, one last curios phrase comes for you: 'Arrän kierrän orren ympäri, ässän pistän taskuuni.' (I´ll wrap “R” around the rafter and put “S” into my pocket). Now, do not cheat by asking a Finnish to answer that but either deal with it or go pockets.
pocketism Christianity? Islam? That’s all old news! Ecem Aydoğan gives you the insight on the newest fab. Pocketism it is!
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s the concept of pockets gets more and more popular through the session’s participants, I have felt the strongest urge to inform our very precious readers that whatever connection felt towards pockets is not just a 4 day-long-session adoration but it is a spiritual one, too. It is the kind of connection that makes you believe it could all come true for you, that “the pocket” is really all that you need. And it is a connection that comes from a very fundamental belief, a religion, to be exact: Pocketism. The roots of Pocketism go as far as the 17th century, when pockets were first invented. Approximately 25 years
after the inventions, John Pock- writes and I quote, “Thou shal ett, was chosen specifically by worship them for they are the salvation.”, it could be inferred Find salvation deep that Pocketism is strongly about within your pockets! becoming purified of the stress and fatiuge an event (maybe an the Holiest of The Pocket Spir- EYP session, who knows) may its to be responsible for deliv- cause simply by believing in ering the basics of the religion the power of pockets and their to people and having it spread roles in daily life. around them. This is exactly As a firm believer in why John Pockett is considered sacred according to Pocketism Pocketism, I can easily say that and is commonly known as if you truly are devoted to the Saint Pockett around contem- idea, you understand the Kabata and find your salvation deep porary Pocketists. within the pockets. Although there have been countless debates and confusions on what idea the religion of Pocketism serves, the most truthful information can be found in the uncontaminated Holy Book of Pocketism, the “Kabata”. As Kabata
Celebrities converted to pocketism - Ecem Aydoğan’s top three Tom Cruise has confirmed that Pocketism is way above scientology and decided to become a firm believer of Pocketism.
Ajdar also gave up his obsessions since he stated that Pocketism makes more sense to him than worshipping bananas.
Mr. President also converted to Pocketism, claiming that he eventually had to give in to his intense bonding with pockets.
FIRE TO pockets Can Şehirlioğlu knows pockets. Their history, to be more precise. Don’t wonder anymore - he has the answers.
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imply, the definition of the word 'pocket' would be 'a very small bag like attachment'. It is called like that because the first pockets were small pouches. Those hung from the belt and it was used to carry coins or other valuable stuff. Since a pocket is an outside attachment, it was unfortunately subject to thieves. When the number of robberies increased, people started keeping their purses inside their trousers. So this deterred the pickpockets by making the theft more difficult. But, there was again a problem: Even though keeping one’s pouch inside of one’s trousers made it more difficult for pickpockets to get at it, it also made it more difficult for the owner of the pouch at the first place to get at the contents. As the purpose of the pouch was to make it easy to carry one’s valuables, now making it impossible to get at the contents inside it without embarrassment was not a good solution. Imagine you are in a public marketplace and you need to drop your pants, make everyone see your red tight underwear, your butt and everything
so you can pay the bill for your shopping. (At those times not only did people have interior pockets, but they also did not wear undergarments) The next stage of evolution of the pocket was what most people can describe today: a simple slit in the clothing. A 15cm cut into the side of your trousers would enable you to reach your purse easily, while others would find it awkward or difficult to reach in without your knowledge. This development so called the cut on the cloth caused a development in the shape and the angle of the purse, and it was the time that people began to call it pockets. After the pocket revolution, pockets became two pieces of cloth, the one at the back and the other shaped almost like a ‘U’ or a ‘V’.
but pocket manufacturers are expecting him to even remember to tie his pocket before his trousers. Yet, he looks like your weirdo friend. Therefore, he asks his wife to sew the pocket right to his trousers so he will never forget it again. And you have it. The friendly pocket everyone know and love since childhood. Helps to warm cold hands, look cool while your hands are in, put the things you just stole and so on.
Yes, of course, pockets have gone trough many changes since that vital day. People have placed pockets in other places than the ones on the waist: on the knee, on the thigh, and on the chest. Some retro people even returned to practice inside pockets, again requiring people to pull down If we look at the normal their trousers and “impress” the pockets we must go back to the supermarket in order to reach trousers again. Lets say it’s 1785 their cash. before some poor guy gets so stressed out because of his hard labor work and has problems trying to remember to tie his “belt-pocket” on every morning. Somehow you know a person like this. This is a person who forgets to put his trousers on before wearing his shoes,
the best time How are you feeling? Enjoying your time here? Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds knows that it might turn sour.
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veryone agrees, EYP sessions are lots of fun. You meet interesting new people, you visit exciting new places and you do fun new things. But what about missing home and especially the people you left there? When you go to an EYP session, there is always the part before the actual session when you say goodbye to your loved ones, be they pets, parents or friends. You know you will be back soon, you are excited about the next few days and you cannot wait to be there, to get started. At the same time you get a bit of an uneasy feeling in the bottom of your stomach, knowing that everyone and everything you’re leaving behind will be far away from you for the time being.
you forget about anything you might be missing, it is mostly just when you receive a facebook message or text that you realize, you are having a great time but you miss that person.
way, some more so and some less. If you miss a person that is just a sign that they are important to you and you are looking forward to seeing them again.
Enjoy that, enjoy knowYou know, you will be ing you care about someone enough that you miss him or back soon! her. But most importantly, remember to enjoy yourself. Usually this occurs in the You are at a session and that is evenings, sometime between amazing. The session should be getting to the place you are the predominant thing on your staying at and falling asleep. mind as it will be over soon Even though you are feeling enough anyway. Enjoy it while lucky about being there and re- it lasts, everyone and everyally, truly loving it, you sudden- thing will still be there when ly find yourself jealous of your you get back home. friends, because they might be doing something you would enjoy, meeting with people you would like to see or spending time with each other while you are surrounded by strangers.
If you start feeling like At the session you are so busy with all the new im- this, rest assured, it is absolutepressions that for the moment ly normal. Everyone feels this
The best comfort food - Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds’s top three Giving you lots and lots of happy-hor mones, chocolate is the perfect food for when you’re down.
A nice cup of tea arms the heart and soul. I understand Turks prefer plain black tea, served in special glasses.
Especially with these warm temperature icecream is a wonderful pick-meup. It’s smooth, soft and sweet.
Flirty pockets Cem Horasan explores the levels of love surrounding the session. What surprises could you find in your pockets?
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o you remember ways are cute in some way. the guy who was So here goes my opinions on walking around ask- “Pocket Flirting”. ing you about attractive people and pockets? As you may have guessed al- Don’t be surprised to find ready I – the one who asked coffee in your pockets! those questions – will be telling every secret you gave to me. The main question was If I was able to give you a about expressing your feelings mini heart attack there good for towards your crush by putting me, because I won’t be giving something in their pockets but you away, please FEMM I’m before that, I asked the opinions of some of the participants on not that evil. attractive people, so that those Now that I am done jok- gorgeous people wouldn’t get ing I have some interesting an- shocked if they found anything swers that I think all the partici- strange in their pockets. Which means you Erdem, if you find pants would want to know. some coffee in your pocket As strange as it may don’t be surprised. seem, I believe that pockets Other than the obvious are going to be the new way of showing one’s affection to an- fact that Erdem is a handsome other. In fact even the creepy boy, I’d like to warn you people, if you find baklava – a turkish dessert – wrapped inside a hundred lira note, I think the creepiest guy of all has a crush on you, which is unlikely but if you do happen to find baklava in your pocket lots of girls are going to be jealous of you. Aside of the sweet clichés which involve putting
signatures, pictures and phone numbers in pockets, there were some original ideas too. There was this girl who would like to put a note saying “I am going to be in your country this summer” in her crush’s pocket which I thought was quite intriguing. Other than notes I believe that we will be seeing a lot of people putting their hands in each others pockets because it seemed like the most popular gesture to show one’s interest in one another. Although “Pocket Flirting” may seem like an unusual thing, I’m sure that in the future of this session it’s going to be one of the best ways to break the ice. So this time instead of shaking hands just put your hands in each other’s pockets. Not that fast! You understand... Right?
weirdest pockets Manar Youssef knows weird. This time she takes a look inside your pockets. And weird is mildly said, guys. Melisa Kumar (Chair): “Once I had a tree trunk in my pocket. I saw it on the ground and felt like picking it up. It was during last April I think, did it just because I can.”
ster in my pocket because I love it. It was 6 years ago at Dona college. Everybody were playing with it, I even rode a horse when I had it in the pocket.”
İlkim İzel Önel: “I always have Alihan Yörük: “I had a piece of an adapter in my pocket, mostly chocolate, it wasn’t such a good because all of my devices aren’t idea. It melted and got smeared adapted to the Turkish sockets. all over my hands at a friends Which is weird.” home four years ago.” Can Bilir: “I have a miniature Deniz Urut: “I’d have to say a shoe in my pocket. My mom tie because you usually don’t bought it from church for prohave a tie in your pocket. I did tection and to prevent evil to it after every EYP session.” come to me. I got it about a month ago.” Kerem Küçükay: “The weirdest thing I’ve had in my pocket is Anonymous: “The weirdest my earphones. I think it’s weird thing I have is a painting brush. because I never put them there, and this morning they were I had my hamster in my suddenly there.”
pocket once.
Ege Çigragan: “I found a melted gum in my pocket once, it had melted after fallen out of the box. It was during a day in Antalya five years ago.”
It’s not normal to have a painting a painting brush in your pocket but I have it because I like to draw during awkward situations. I have it on me alEylül Öğüt: “My necklace, I al- most everyday.” ways lose it and then manage to find it at the strangest places. Kutay Koraltürk: “The weirdIt shouldn’t be in my pocket.” est thing I’ve had I my pocket is a insect. It was so soft and I Hazel Şermet: “I had my ham- thought it was cotton so I start-
ed to play with it in my pocket. It took a long long time before I realised that it was an insect. It probably got there during a trip to the forest.” Pinar Topçam: “I think that the weirdest thing in my pocket was a memory card for a camera. My friend had borrowed it so when she gave it back I didn’t have the camera on me so I put it in my pocket. It’s weird to have something like that in your pocket because it’s small and can easily get lost.” Mert Özkarakaş: “I had cookies once, I mean you’re supposed to eat that stuff and not have it in your pockets.”
pocket placement Şayen Tokyay offers you a chance to take a sight. Just one, though. ‘Cause all of these people have their first sights settled. “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Mmmhh.. okay. But what about an ultimate reality of our lives: first impression? Can you, the precious reader, discard that warm feeling you get when you first met with someone or the extremely fast judgement you make about the person you just saw? Now, after the session has started, there is no greater time to have first impressions for each and everyone in the session. So I wondered and asked the delegates: Depending on the first impressions today, who will be the two people they choose to put in their pockets for the rest of the session? To carry them everyday, everynight and to live happily ever after, for sure. The first person they chose was a member of the committee, and the second was just a random one from the session. There goes the exact versions of the satisfactory answers, with their perfect reasoning. • Dilge (SEDE): • Sonat (JURI): • Batu (SEDE): 1. İlayda. She is the first one I 1. Talya. She is one of those hap- 1. Dirk because he’s so sweet and cheerful. met this morning, so she is kind py-funny-always-smiling girl. 2. Aslı the chair. She is really 2. Levent from AFCO, because of special. 2. Hugo the journo. He has cheerful, aweso...Wait, forget he’s my boyfriend. style, he is super cool and on that, she’s just the best person. the top of all, he reminds me of Monaco. • Efe Hans (LIBE): 1. Şeyma. (He repeats.) Şeyma. (Thinks a little bit) Of course Şeyma. (Nods a couple of times). 2. Sonat for sure. He is so creative, he’ll make me like stuff. • Jim Cem (LIBE): 1. Selma Şeyma the chair. Guess • Levent (AFCO): why? 2. Mustafa from EMPL. Be- 1. Sebastian because he knows • Oğuzhan (ENVI) : how to entertain people and he 1. Defne. (Just looks around cause I think I like him. is really funny. with a shy Romeoish smile on 2. Dilge, you know, girlfriend ishis face.) • Ömer (AFET): 2. Tiago. Merely because he is 1. Henriikka for sure, she is such sues. By the way, did you make this interview with her too? She a joyful chair. Indeed she is. the President. 2. Ceyda from SEDE. Well she had better given my name... can take care of lots of things at the same time.
horoscope Manar Youssef & Şayen Tokyay went to a fortune-teller. What did she have to say about your committee? AFCO: After a lot of thought and effort, you’ve noticed that you had a hard time letting a new member into the family. Just slow down, AFCO, maybe you should be more persistent about your priorities rather than insisting on getting what’s too far from your reach. AFET: One does not simply decide between a sunny day in January to a warm and cosy day in July. Are you really making the right decisions? Maybe not at the moment, AFET, and only time will tell. Or you may want to ask for advice, after all, a wise person’s pocket can never hurt.
ENVI: Hey, ENVI, your pockets are found to be full of chocolate nowadays, have your ever thought of replacing them with something green? If it goes on like this, international forces will have to interfere with your fat pockets. Just saying. FEMM: Don’t forget that all pockets are born equal and have a right to exercise Pocketism, you FEMM. So raise your voice, act against the discrimination that you’re facing, and don’t ever try to cover yourself up. Be active.
sure on you and you feel unable to express yourself. Also, the implementations of your new plans has caused you a lot of stress. Is it the way it should be? Today, try to be more confident, JURI! You can do it. LIBE: You’ve been experiencing a huge clash of opinions in your life in the past few days, LIBE. But you should be respecting others’ ideas, without giving them the permission to shut you down.
SEDE: You will be dealing with some issues that threaten your INTA: You seem to are losing security in these couple of your balance in life, but don’t days, SEDE, so beware. Since a EMPL: The struggles you’ve panic. Just organise, get your dreadful dispute coming from been facing are due to your lack trades right and everything will your past, you might want to include peaceful solutions in of experience. However, try not solve itself eventually. your pocket. to get too lost in your dream world and try to focus on your ITRE: They say that too much career. Never let a pocket mis- ego kills your talent, ITRE. Assuming that everybody’s delead you into the darkness. pendent on you won’t get you too far. Just bare in mind that you are not in a position where you would want enemies around. JURI: There is too much pres-