Turkey: Falun Gong Practitioners Hold Activities to Introduce Falun Gong and Let People Know About the Persecution

Recently, Falun Gong practitioners including new practitioners in different areas in Turkey gathered together to study the Falun Gong teachings, practise the exercises and send forth righteous thoughts. At the same time, they visited media outlets and government offices as well as distributed leaflets and provide free exercise instruction at public parks to introduce Falun Gong and expose the facts about the persecution to the public.

Turkish practitioners held activities to introduce Falun Gong and expose the persecution to the public, as well as held a group practice.

Over the last few years, veteran practitioners have encouraged each other though sharing experiences. They also showed concern for new practitioners and helped them to study the teachings, patiently explaining the questions they encountered in the process of cultivation. Veteran practitioners often took their own initiative to examine themselves when encountering conflicts. They understood and cooperated with each other in a harmonious way.

Through practitioners' persistent effort, more and more Turkish people are learning about the beauty and wonderfulness of Falun Gong, and more and more people have started to genuinely practise Falun Gong.

After learning about the facts of Falun Gong, a Mayor of a southern city in Turkey expressed that he would call upon all his city residents to learn Falun Gong, so that every citizen would have a healthy body and peaceful, beautiful and lofty spirit. The mayor also expressed that the city would pay for the expense of making Falun Gong leaflets and plant flowers around the practitioners' group exercise sites!

A leader of the Turkish Public Security Bureau made a clear statement after learning about the facts of Falun Gong: "We respect human rights, and respect the choices of citizens. We will not follow outside orders regarding Falun Gong. Turkish people love Falun Gong. Here in Turkey, we are a truly democratic country." One practitioner, who is a University professor who was in charge of translating Falun Gong's main text Zhuan Falun into Turkish and proofreading the effort just returned back from Australia to Turkey. Through her effort of clarifying the truth, almost all people in her university from the President of the University to the cleaning workers learned the facts about Falun Gong and many faculty members and students began practising Falun Gong.

In order to provide opportunities for more people with predestined relationships, and allow future Turkish people to cultivate Falun Gong, both Chinese and Turkish practitioners are working very hard to proofread the translated Zhuan Falun in Turkish.