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We, the women of Greece and Turkey.
We came together in order to challenge and to transform the relations
between our two countries…
We, the women of Turkey and Greece.
We joined our hands in order to create and to work together.
We hugged women from both North and South of Cyprus, in order to achieve empowerment of women, equality, economic and social justice.
We joined our experiences, our forces, our capability, our creativity, our ability and our empathy in order to build a culture of peace.
All this started when a sea accident brought the two countries to the brink of war!

The Turkish Office of The Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in İstanbul,
for subsidizing this book and also for their contributions to WINPEACE throughout
the years.
Zülal Kılıç for bringing together all the material;
Şirin Tekeli for translations;
Jennifer Sertel, Nur Mardin and Kim Erkan for correcting the English;
Enif Yavuz and Utku Başar for their help
Last but not least to Nilgün Niord (Lermioğlu) for building bridges between the
different parties in the process of making of the book and especially being there
by my side whenever I needed any help in putting it alltogether...