Turkey's Biggest TV Show Broadcasts Primetime Falun Gong Interview

On the 23rd of April 2006, Turkey's biggest TV station SHOWTV interviewed Falun Gong practitioners in an Istanbul park. Practitioners talked about the beauty and the grand spreading of Falun Dafa throughout the world. They also talked about the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and revealed how the CCP harvests organs from live Falun Gong practitioners in forced labour camps. The TV station broadcast this interview to the whole of Turkey in the evening news.

This is the third time SHOWTV has reported on Falun Gong positively. In this most recent report, the host explained that Falun Dafa originated in China in 1992 and has spread all over the world. In the past five years, Falun Gong spread rapidly in Turkey and is valued and loved by Turkish people.

While practitioners introduced Falun Gong in the interview, the TV screen showed images of Falun Gong being practised around the world and many paintings from the "Truthfulness, Compassion, Forbearance International Art Exhibition" that revealed the persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP. In these paintings, the peaceful practice of exercises by Falun Gong practitioners creates a sharp contrast with the bloody persecution by the CCP.

In the painting entitled "why" a little boy about seven years old is behind bars. His hands hold onto the bars and his body shows obvious wound and traces of blood. On the ground behind him, his mother lay there, covered with wounds. Despite the suffering, this little boy did not have hate or tears in his eyes. In his eyes there was only the question: why did my mother and I have to suffer such brutal persecution for living by the principles of "truthfulness, compassion, and forbearance”?

This is the first time practitioners in Turkey revealed the torture and persecution of Falun Gong by the CCP on nationwide TV station in such a comprehensive way. In the programme. Local practitioner Ms. Aynur said Falun Gong is a cultivation practice. Practitioners not only gain a healthy body but also cultivate their character according to the principles of truthfulness, compassion, forbearance and elevate their morality. Falun Gong has spread to a lot of cities in Turkey.

Aynur also said that since the CCP launched the cruel persecution of Falun Gong in 1999, it has set up concentration camps to lock up practitioners all over China. In the concentration camps and labour “re-education” institutes, the CCP harvested organs from live Falun Gong practitioners for lucrative profits and cremated their bodies to destroy the evidence. All these crimes by the CCP are not tolerated by heaven and both the people and the gods are angry. We will continue to protest against the persecution in China until the persecution is stopped.

Aynur said that at present Falun Gong practitioners have sued the leading criminals in this persecution all over the world. She called upon the Turkish government and people to send out the voice of justice and to stop the persecution together.

The TV also showed an interview with two other practitioners. A male practitioner from Turkey said: "After I practised Falun Gong, my whole body and mind was changed. I am healthy and at peace now." An eighteen year old Turkish girl said: "I treated others with more mercy and patience after learning cultivation. My health has been improved too. I felt very lucky after learning about Falun Gong."