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INTERVIEW Olcay Soyalan explores the speed at which friendships are formed within EYP. Page 3 SOCIETY Sweden and Turkey - two completely di erent countries. Emilie Tilstam examines her prejudices. Page 4 LIFESTYLE Elif Celebi gives her view on embarrasment in daily life, and explains why those certain stories should never be forgotten. Page 5 LIFESTYLE Are you afraid to fail? You should not be. Failing is the way to success, and Dunja Tanovic knows why. Page 6 EYP is session has come to an end, but next up in Istanbul is the International Session. ree members of the Organising team inform you about what is yet to come. Page 7 POLITICS Noura Berrouba describes the importance of interpreting development in di erent ways. Page 8 LIFESTYLE Feel like listening to hipster music in an EYP manner? Emilie Tilstam gives you the full European guide. Page 11 POLITICS Samuel Mushin explains the importance of overcoming prejudice in Europe. Page 12 LIFESTYLE Watch out for the Fashion police! Ipek Karakaya investigates the sense of style of some session participants. Page 13 EYP Noura Berrouba defends her favourite shape, the circle. Page 14 EYP is session is over, and something called PED is about to hit you. Melis Cin helps you prepare. Page 15 EYP As the nal word, there are a couple of people we need to thank. Oyku Tali describes further. Page 16
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e Intercontintal is brought to you by: Noura Berrouba (SE) Elif Celebi (TR) Melis Cin (TR) Ipek Karakaya (TR) Sammy Mushin (CZ) Kaan Serdar (TR) Olcay Soyalan (TR) Oyku Tali (TR) Dunja Tanovic (UK) Emilie Tilstam (SE)
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Atychiphobia, anyone?
No one likes to fail. What happens if one is so afraid of failing that she or he will not even try? BY DUNJA TANOVIC (UK)
No one likes to fail. But what happens if one is so afraid of failing that she or he will not even try, in the rst place? BY DUNJA TANOVIC (UK)
Somewhere between the Greenpeace power point and ETICS insulation talk in yesterdays Opening Ceremony, Miss. President mentioned Atychiphobia; or the fear of failure, as it is more commonly known. e majority of participants at this session have probably, at some point or another, felt its e ects. What people rarely realise however, is that atychiphobia, unlike any other phobia, is a frequent and tragic barrier that restricts the su erer from reaching their full potential. ey can be so concerned with failing that they do not even try to achieve their goals. e usual suspects when it comes to atychiphobia su ers are those who are high achievers; successful students or workers who have never really experienced failure, or at least their interpretation of the word. What these people do not realise is that without a certain amount of failure, they will never experience great success. One of the most successful men of our time, Steve Jobs, was once described as Americas greatest failure after he was booted out of his own company, Apple, in 1985. According to Nick Schulz, Jobs had failed better than anyone else in Silicon Valley, maybe better than anyone in corporate America. e reason for Jobs later success comes from the fact that he learned from these mistakes and managed to look at his failures optimistically. While he recognised that being red from his own company was initially terrible, he went on to say it was the best thing that ever happened to him claiming that it was [an] awfultasting medicine, but...[he] needed it. Unlike most phobias, atychiphobia has several main symptoms which can af-
fect the su erers everyday actions and mentality. It stops them from asking for help due to their fear of what others would think if they admitted that they did not know everything. Furthermore they can develop a twisted view of those around them, believing that everyone else breezes through life and thus end up feeling bad for not being able to achieve perfection like their friends and family. Other symptoms include irrational thoughts and not wishing to start new, exiting activities; after all how can you fail if you never even try? If we look at the most successful people in history it is clear that if you do not make mistakes, you cannot succeed. American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson said that all in life is an experiment. e more experiments you make the better and history has proved him right. Never look at the negative side of failure, just look at what can be learnt from it.
Instead of 14 international Of cials, as it was in the case of this National Selection Conference, next years International Session in Istanbul will gather 320 participants from over 30 countries. BY KAAN SERDAR (TR), OLCAY SOYALAN (TR) & OYKU TALI (TR)
As the members of the Organising team, we are more than happy to announce that the 69th International Session of the European Youth Parliament will take place in Istanbul between March 23st and April 1st. Under the theme of Bridging the Cultural Divides of Europe, the session, presided by Ruben Wagenaar, will gather 320 participants from over 30 countries. We are proud to be hosting such an important EYP event, and promise to dedicate ourselves one hundred per cent to make everything the best possible. e team of Istanbul 2012 is what will make the session unique. e Head Organisers Ezgi Teksoy and Oulcan Torun are both experienced EYP alumni. With their excellent leadership skills, 25 truly special organisers have come together as a family, all tremendously enthusiastic about the session. e passion is truly there - everyone in the team is currently working extremely hard to make sure everything will run smoothly during the session. e unity of the team is so strong that even the most di cult challenges are fun to overcome. e Organising team started working for the session in September and since then there have been two organising weekends that gathered all members of the team. During these weekends, teambuilding, meetings, presentations and brie ngs pumped the team members with motivation. ese three-day have allowed the team to get to know each other even better, and thus work more e ciently.
As a team, we are truly dedicated to creating an unforgettable conference. We have, for this reason, created a surprise for you: a game called Ogulcanman. To play the game and for more detailed information about the session, check our website www.istanbul12.org and our Facebook and Twitter pages. We are waiting for enthusiastic and energetic EYPers to join us for a marvellous experience of Turkish hospitality and EYP magic in Istanbul. We hope to see you in Istanbul once again, but this time in March. On behalf of the Organising team of Istanbul 2012, Kaan Serdar, Olcay Soyalan, Oyku Tali
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Devilopment
Development is often praised as societys greatest victory. Is that necessarily true? BY NOURA BERROUBA (SE)
Just like a coin can be ipped, so can the di erent e ects of development. On one side, we can see what economic development has lead to: cars rolling in our streets, computers in every home, people constantly typing on their high-tech smart phones and the entire world interconnected by planes, trains, buses and cars. We have turned into one global community where communication is vital and the loss of it is unimaginable. On the other hand, the same development has led to environmental catastrophes, an increasing gap between the third and industrialised world and dependence on technology. Mankind might be getting healthier, but the earth is de nitely sickening. As one of many, Barack Obama refers to development as the greatest force behind society and the masses praise it. It is said that change is good - that change is what keeps our society moving. is is partially true regarding humanistic development; education, healthcare and factors such as mortality rate have all certainly improved. e worlds population has become more educated, new medicines have been discovered and the risk of a child dying has massively decreased in the industrialised world. Despite this, there are still severe problems for humanity; modern addictions and dependence on personal technology has increased, internet bullying is a reality, governments are at risk of being hacked online and machines are taking over jobs previously done by people. All of these things we have development to thank for. It is not only from a humanitarian point of view that development can be bad. Environmentally, our actions are causing severe problems. e nuclear catastrophes in Fukushima and Chernobyl are two examples; the increasingly growing hole in the ozone is another. Earth is consistently being damaged. People claim that connecting the world through infrastructure is a good thing; that it connects people and remove boarders. e question is how much we are ready to pay. Transport is releasing emissions at an expensive rate: 30% of the current CO2 emissions are caused by transport. Change is good, change is what keeps our societies moving. e cost of our development and our change might very possibly be prices too high to pay. Development is not always necessary, things do not always have change. A man touched down on the moon and a world was connected by our own science and imagination were Barack Obamas words in his acceptance speech. What Barack Obama forgets to do is to ip the coin and see what can be found behind it.
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Now that we know what a hipster is and how to recognize him/her(/it?), it is time to analyze what music hipsters listen to in different countries. BY EMILIE TILSTAM (SE)
Ireland e Script: ree Dubliners playing blue-eyed soul music that has become popular material for several American television series. Listen to: e man who cant be moved United Kingdom e Libertines: e punk revival band of the notorious Pete Doherty and Carl Barat. Listen to: Cant stand me now e Beatles: Not contemporary indie music, but a hipster has to know his Beatles. Listen to: Everything (but start with Blackbird) France Daft Punk: Electronic duo. Listen to: Technologic Justice: Electronic duo (do we see a pattern here by any chance?) Listen to: We are your friends Germany Rammstein? Tokyo Hotel? No, the hipster would not go to Germany for the music. Switzerland e Delilahs: Not that big yet, but stay tuned; rumour has it that a Swiss at this session (not sayig who she is) will be starring in a coming video. Listen to: I wanna be a housewife Sweden Lykke Li: is singer-songwriter has made her way into hipster-hearts all over the world with her electronic indie pop and cryptic hipster-hand gestures. Listen to I follow rivers Kent: ese ve boys call themselves Swedens biggest rock band, and have many loyal hipster-followers from way back in the 90s. Listen to: Musik non stop Finland We like to sing about death is a common answer you will get if you ask a Finn what kind of music Finland has to o er. And although pain is a good theme for hipster music, it should perhaps be a bit more subtle.
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Denmark Blue Foundation: A band dating back to 2000; their music has been described as folk music for modern people by its front gure Tobias Wilner. One of their songs even made it all the way to a Twilight soundtrack. Listen to: Eyes on re Turkey Hipsterism is not as tangible in Turkey, But their music scene is de nitely upand-coming, with bands such as Softa and Post Dial. As you can see, indie rock music takes up a lot of space in the hipster iPod, but for most of the time, the speci c genre of music is not too important. e essential thing is just to be very demanding in your music taste and constantly search for new music that preferably is completely unknown. If you do not have the time for frenetic searching, just say that you listen to e [insert rst word that comes to mind], for example e Talk or e Suspenders. No one will ever actually check if they really exist, and you will accordingly succeed at being hipster.
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Organisers, tesekkurler
BY OYKU TALI (TR)
If you are lucky enough to catch a glimpse of one of the Organisers, you will see the broad smiles on their slightly tired-looking faces. ey will probably be running around in leggings and huge sweaters, communicating through their walkie-talkies and carrying huge boxes even though they are, most of them, tiny. It is easy to say that the core team of the session, the Organising team, are like buzzing bees. From the very start, they have dedicated themselves to helping us and to making sure that every single, may it be ridiculous, request is possible. ey have truly succeeded. On the rst night, Zeynep opened the door of her house to the O cials, serving an exquisite dinner and by doing so became the star of the O cials team. Ecem generously opened her home to the Editors when they arrived early, and during the session e ectively solves issues, speci cally related to the hotel. Nilay and Defne are doing a great job helping the Advisors. Yaz, Eda, Nilay, Deniz, Elif and Beril make everything possible for the Chairs in their Committee Work and Erdem nds solutions to any problems related to IT. No favouritism, but the person closest to the heart of the Press team is Burak. He is truly superhuman, whether it is printing or food, he is always there. As a Press room Organiser, Burak feeds us non-stop with candies, cookies and crackers. Whatever is needed, we can trust him to try his very best trying to get is to us. One thing is certain - as far as the session is concerned, these Organisers run the world. Yesterday, Kerstin said e faces, people and the atmosphere make a session memorable. With the enormously helpful and positive Organisers and their hospitality, this session might very well be a once in a lifetime experience. From the bottom of our hearts thank you.
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