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TUNA KIYILARINDAN ANADOLU'YA. BIR GOC HIKAYESI

2025-1-TR01-KA155-YOU-0003059642025Discover EU inclusion actionongoing
Countries: TR · Grant: €23,243.25

Objectives

The collapse of the Ottoman Empire created major problems for our compatriots who had been settled regularly in the Balkans since 1354. Both Greece and Bulgaria imposed very strict rules on the subject of population exchange. The population exchange efforts that started with Greece in 1913 were suspended due to the intervention of World War I and remained on hold until the establishment of the Republic of Turkey. Bulgaria, which completely broke away from the Ottoman Empire in 1908, started population exchange operations in 1919, but made great efforts to send our Turkish compatriots from their countries, especially after World War II. In this context, the main purpose of our project is to bring together our Turkish compatriots, especially in Thessaloniki, Kavala, Seres, Dedeagac, Iskece in Greece, Ruscuk, Tarnovo, Harmanli in Bulgaria, Constanta and Yergo in Romania, and to listen to what happened during the exchange from their mouths, to turn this information and documents into short documentaries and to present them to other young people, thus paving the way for humane solutions to problems in the following years without making similar mistakes. While carrying out these studies, our first priority will be to convey the information from the most accurate sources. A youth who sees the events of the past as if they never happened, who grows up without any historical awareness and knowledge of everything, will lose their national consciousness in the face of such events in the future, and will act far from nationalism in all their work. Within the scope of this project, we plan to take a total of 25 of our young people on 5 separate mobilities with a total of 10 companions and stay in the country they will go to for a total of 1 week. During this one-week period, we plan to visit different towns, villages and provinces every day and chat with our compatriots there. The participants of our project are located in a very disadvantaged region when viewed geographically. The Syrian incidents that broke out in 2010 caused millions of Syrians to come to our city. As a result of such an influx of migration, an undesirable cultural change occurred in our city and subsequently a multicultural environment was formed, but this multicultural environment made our city an undesirable and unsafe city in such projects. While we were already going through a period when it was difficult to find partners from other countries, this time our city faced the disaster of the century, tens of thousands of buildings were destroyed and tens of thousands of our citizens died. The earthquake disaster left our city in a great impasse. Approximately 200 thousand people currently live in approximately 160 container cities. Although electricity and water are free in container cities, life is very difficult. The cold weather, the fact that more than one person lives in the same container, and the difficulties experienced in meeting needs such as food and bathroom have worn people out psychologically. Our project contact person has been working as a manager in the container city since the earthquake. He has personally experienced the gravity of the situation. This situation puts people living in containers in particular at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the country. While the Erasmus+ program aims at individual or group learning, equality, inclusion, and creativity, President von der Leyen has stated that they aim to reach people with fewer opportunities between 2021-2027 with Erasmus+. Participants in our project will be selected entirely from young people living in container cities who do not have financial means. This project will be a source of inspiration that can make a difference in their lives and will ease the traces of the earthquake, if not erase them.

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