Divanyolu Caddesi Erçevik İş Hanı No:54 / 110 Sultanahmet
34122 Istanbul/
Turkey
- International/Cultural relations
- Religion
- Youth and education
Our organisation (Center for Cross-cultural Communication) aims to cater for different groups. First of all it aims to raise cross-cultural awareness among young Turkish citizens. Secondly it aims to establish platforms where people from different cultural backgrounds can meet, discuss their viewpoints and realize their commonalities as well as differences.So far we have been actively engaging young Turks and international visitors in the most attractive locations in a historically pluralist city, Istanbul. Sultan Ahmed and Suleymaniye Mosques and Sinan Pasha Complex are some of these places for example.It has ben commented as an important part of their visit by most of our visitors in the guest book, in their emails and tripadvisor.com comments.Regular activities are presentations to groups of visitors, individual discussions after presentations, question and answer sessions and training for the volunteers on various subjects including intercultural communication skills, public speaking and presentation workshops, seminars on history and architecture.
Info sessions: To tourists in Sultan Ahmed, Suleymaniye and Sinan Pasha centres in the form of group presentations and one-to-one
Publications: On cultural sites in Istanbul and Edirne as well as on various aspects of Turkish and Islamic culture. One such project was funded by TURING and more than 100000 brochures in 8 languages were distributed in Istanbul and Edirne.
Training: Differentiated training for volunteers at different levels, basic communication skills, intercultural competence, presentation skills (elementary to advanced), Judaism and Christianity, Architecture, History fo the Qur'an etc.
Iftari: During Ramadan every year we host iftaris for non-Muslim visitors in the historical sites of Istanbul
We have a large but maybe underrepresented network of volunteers and other organisations who may be useful in advancing international, intercultural and interfaith relations among members of the Anna Lindh Foundation's network.
National and international activities, providing/receiving training on various subjects of interest, exchange of volunteers, joint workshops on common challenges of the time and area that we live in.