Turkey: Short Stories of Turkish people Embracing Falun Gong

A female Turkish friend of mine is a new practitioner who has practised Falun Gong for a year. Because the Falun Gong teachings are not available in the Turkish language, she felt Falun Gong was good only from the aspect of healing and fitness. She practised the Falun Gong exercises very diligently and her physical fitness improved greatly. After I shared with her some of the Falun Gong teachings, she understood Falun Gong much more deeply and learned that only through assimilating to the universal principles of Truthfulness, Compassion and Forbearance can one achieve true inner peace and happiness. I also told her about the ongoing brutal persecution against Falun Gong in China and the peaceful appeals calling for an end to the persecution that are happening all over the world.

My friend then started to introduce Falun Gong to her Iranian relatives. Her uncle and aunt from Iran came to visit her family. She invited me to talk to them about Falun Gong. They immediately wanted to read the main text of Falun Gong, Zhuan Falun. Her uncle is over seventy years old and is a very devoted Muslim. He said that he did not know that such a great book really exists in the world and he must read it. He was very moved by the stories of Falun Gong founder Master Li and said, “Jiang Zemin and his accomplices must be punished severely. They should be punished in exactly the same way they treated Falun Gong practitioners.”

My friend later downloaded the draft Turkish version of Zhuan Falun and The Great Consummation Way of Falun Dafa from www.falundafa.org, and started to read them very keenly. Many people learned Falun Dafa from her.

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There were other friends who introduced us to Health Clubs to teach Falun Gong. Some Turkish practitioners organised themselves into small groups to practise the exercises together every day. An elderly lady, after practising with others for about half a year, informed her doctor that she no longer needed the heart operation she was supposed to have. Her doctor was very surprised about her good health and asked her what she had been taking in that half a year and what other medical methods she had been using. She replied, “I have been practising Falun Gong.”

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One day I went to Istanbul on a business trip and met eight schoolteachers in a restaurant. They were chatting and I introduced myself to them. I mentioned Falun Gong to them and the ongoing persecution in China and told them that the main instigator of the persecution, former Chinese leader Jiang Zemin, is being sued in the international courts of many countries for the crime of genocide. They showed great interest in Falun Gong and some of them immediately wanted to learn the exercises. I taught them a few exercise movements. Some of them said that they instantly felt very relaxed. A middle-aged gentleman said, “Do you know, in 1965 we also sued a president in the court and he was sentenced to be beheaded because he did many bad things.” He then asked me, “Do you hope that Jiang Zemin is punished?” I replied, “Certainly!” He said, “We all support you.”

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In the following two days, I met two groups of Chinese people in the streets and told them the truth behind the persecution of Falun Gong. In China the media is completely state controlled so it can be difficult for Chinese people to find out the facts. One of them said, “I am never against belief. In modern life it’s always better to have a belief.” Another said, “Before we listened to you, we thought that the self-immolation incident in Tiananmen Square was real. The officials nowadays dare to do anything.”

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A female friend of mine learned the Falun Gong exercises and started to read Zhuan Falun. One day she called me and said she wanted to come to my home. When she got there, she curiously asked me, “What is Falun Gong really?” She continued, “I had an X-ray today. My Sinusitis, which I have suffered with for over thirty years, has disappeared completely. Falun Dafa is truly wonderful!”