RECEPTaCLERECEPTaCLE

editorial

Dear reader,

the chances are pretty strong that you are of Turkish descent. If that is so, I would like to ask you, to think about your name.

As far as I know, literally all the names mean something. Soldiers, silk, streams, fl owers and everything else what we can fi nd surrounding us.

I would like you to think about your name. For you see, names in other places, across Europe, do not carry a strong meaning always. For instance, technically, my name derives

from the Upper German name Karl. Meaning - strong man. But that is somewhat vague and there are no guarantees that is actually so.

You, on the other hand, have names you can associate yourself with. And I would love it, if you would do so.

Since my arrival in Is-tanbul, I have met tens of new people. The main thing is, that some of them carry their name as an advertisment. Yet no one of them has a name with a neg-ative meaning. None. So why would you not carry your name with pride?

I do believe that dur-ing these days here, in Kabataş you can carry it with pride. You have the chance to prove to others how big of a soldier you are. Are you actually a leaf, rain, thunder girl or are you 'just a girl'. I hope that it would be the fi rst time.

With this, all I wanted to say is be proud of yourself and do not be afraid to show it to others. Show your true self and you can fulfi ll that, what is writ-ten in your name. I hope you rise to the challenge and the best of luck to you all!

Yours truly - K.C.

Tuna Dökmeci(Turkey)

Cem Horasan(Turkey)

Ecem Aydoğan(Turkey)

Manar Youssef(Sweden)

Berk Manav(Turkey)

Hugo Dürr(Sweden)

Şayen Tokyay(Turkey)

Can Şehirlioğlu (Turkey)

journo/video editor

Tua Malmberg(Sweden)

Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds

(Switzerland)

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Manar Youssef shares has a lot of stuff in her pocket. The majority of it - useless. Let her tell you what not to take along with you.

We all know that we have had useless things in our pock-

ets sometimes during our life. Somethings you fi nd important are totally irrelevant to others so I am gonna narrow them down .

First of all a hamster. Seri-ously there is cages for a reason, leave it in there. Nobody wants a rat runinng around during a session. Then there is the most stupid one of them all, a water-fi lled bottle without a lid. Do you intentially want it to look like you have had an accident everytime you sit down? No, did not think so. The most clas-sic of them all, a toothpick, you must be suicidal if you want to have something sticking in you all the time, just saying.

Now that we are in Istan-bul some of you might be sad of the lack of growing mustasches and would like to have a fake one instead. It does not work like that, you are in Turkey, do it as the natives and grow your own!

Some of you might even like to play police sometimes and carries around handcuffs in your pockets, please people, leave them in your bedroom!

Now back to the ham-ster, why do you have crumbs in your pocket? Not only does the hamster live in there, you also want to feed it in you pock-et? They eat seeds and nuts not crumbs, leave them out of there! If you are walking around with Rebecka Black's single in your pocket you have to, either be related to the devil or just enjoy watching people in pain.

What I really do not un-derstand though is the pocket inside a pocket, pocketception

is really nothing I like to en-courage. All of you believers out there, leave your prayer book at home. Not even God can save you from the exhaustion you are about the feel during EYP.

The worst one is the fold out bike. My question is when exactly will you have time to ride it? Sure it fi ts in your pocket but that can be misinterpreted, is that a bike in your pocket or are you just really happy to see me?

The last and most useless of them all is the Euro, please leave that currency at home, it does not have a value here, and we all know that in ten year time copper will be worth more.

Euro is the most useless thing!

useless pockets

Have you ever wondered about the small pocket in your jeans? Hugo Dürr takes a shot at it. Useless or usefull?

Most people nowa-days wear trou-sers at some point in their life. These

trousers will, more often than not, bear pockets for the pur-pose of storing things. However, some pockets serve the purpose not of storing items, but rather another pocket. Thus, the ques-tion arises; has modern day fashion made our lives more practical, or are they simply making a nuisance of things?

After yet another success in 2010 with Inception, Christo-pher Nolan has truly coined the concept of "something within itself”. It is now hipster-marked to add "-ception” to the end of any word, in an attempt to mess with someone’s mind.

Bringing the example of pockets, and thus pocketcep-tion, into the limelight, I pose the query; is pocketception a worthwhile concept, are these smaller inner-pockets we all have just above our primary pockets actually practical or are they in the way?

One could argue that these small, extra pockets are

convenient when storing small-er, spare objects. A popular fi ller for the pockets in question are coins.

Coins are small and usu-ally seen as spare, because not many of us feel the necessity to make the effort and bring out our wallets and purses every time we receive a few measly coins in change, and place the inconveniently rounded coins into the squared wallet or purse. Thus, we leave the coins in our pockets, because that is more convenient and consequently, pocketception prospers.

However, the risks of carrying coins in ones pockets are large, especially when one owns an android or iPhone. Envision the scenario; you’re tweeting about your latest amazing EYP experience while walking to the bus stop, when the bus hurdles past in a fl urry. Your only chance of catching this bus, which will take you

to your next EYP experience, is to run. Fast. You instinctively tear for the bus, while placing your phone into your pocket. You being you (aka awesome) make it to the bus. Win. How-ever, in the hasty act of placing your phone in your pocket, you put it in the same pocket as all of your coins, and now your screen is scratched beyond be-lief. Not win.

I’ll let you clever people be the judge on the whether the fashion industry should be held accountable for your reparation bills. All I aim to do is entice im-agination, fuel inspiration, cata-lyse action, the rest is up to you.

pocketception

Imagine tweeting about your latest EYP

experience.

Wondering where to put the pen? No worries, Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds knows all about perfect timing.

Committee Work

Things you’ll need during committee work in-clude...

• The in EYP omnipresent post-it’s, in case your chair doesn’t provide you with enough.• Strong opinions, good points and an interest in what is going on.• Pens; many of which you will lose, break or lend to your fellow delegates.• Respect for your chair, your fellow delegates and of course for your journo• Chocolate; committee work can be hard and exhausting work, a bit of chocolate can work wonders, trust me!• Your very own personal notes on your topic, always try to prepare as well as possible, you’ll have much more fun that way.

Things you’d better leave in your pocket during this activity:

• Any prejudices you might have.• Fear of voicing your opinions, they are worth being heard and contemplated by your fellow delegates.• Your phone; playing on it, texting or even mak-ing phone calls during committee work is just plain rude, don’t do it!

General Assembly

Things you will need during General Assembly...

• GA goes on for quite long and if you’re doing it right, you’ll be exhausted so bring some kind of salty snack, especially if you don’t trust the organizers with the snacks they’ll be providing which of course you should...• A pen, or multiple ones if you want to be very

popular in your committee.• Post-its and some other paper to take

notes during the day.• The Resolution-Booklet is one of the most important items, don’t forget bringing it, as well as any notes and speeches you’ll have prepared!

• Cough tablets such as Halls; all the talking you’ll be doing and the

excitement might damage your voice so take care of it.

Things you’d better leave in your pocket during this activity:

• Your phone; this should be turned off or on silent during the whole of General Assembly!• Apply the same rule to any other noisy gadget you might be bringing along.• During General Assembly, please refrain from reading through the newspaper, I know it’s bril-liant; you should still pay attention and partici-pate.

Never again be unprepared for Team-Building, Committee Work or General Assem-bly! This is a short guide to the small things you should carry with you, as they will make your life easier and your EYP experience even better. While you might have some ideas as to what you’ll bring to the different activities, I am going to try to

be helpful and help you by telling you what to take along and what to leave in your pocket.

pocket size it!

pocket creativity

Pockets boring? You’ve got to be kidding me! Cem Horasan gives you 5 creative ways of 'pocketing'

Pockets have been in our lives for millennia and they still do help us a lot. However, their help have long been forgotten. They always help us carry things around, that is what they are made for. But, one should always remember that pockets can be fun sometimes. So here you go, the list of ten creative things that you can do with pockets:

1Magic tricks. Yes, mas-ter level tricks are hard to manage just by the help of a pocket but you

can do some magic tricks using your pockets. Moreover, you may just have fun as well as im-pressing some girls with some cool tricks. Who needs sleeves when you got pockets, right?

2 What about cutting your pocket and wearing it as a hat? If you liked the idea it’s fairly simple to

do. You just need some scis-sors and of course a pocket af-

ter that if you get frustrated or raged in your committee work you could cut your pocket and wear it as a hat to show how off topic your friends have gone.

3 Inserting stuff in peo-ple’s pockets that are hard to pull out and watching people sweat,

trying to pull those out would be quite the fun if you’re look-ing for a little bit of amusement.

4 I believe that pockets should not only be on clothes. Instead they should be everywhere.

Have you ever thought how it would be to have a cookie pock-et in your coffee or milk mug? Well some people on the inter-net have and it seems like a good idea to have one of those mugs.

5 Last but not least you can set your pockets on fi re – without harming yourself of course – if

you’re crazy enough to take this challenge. Use caution though.

Pocket food - Tua Malmberg’s top three

Crisps. Deli-cious pocketed crisps.

What is a pocket without brownies in it? A sad pocket.

What happens when you have fi nished all of your pocketed food? Huge backside.

Romanian-Hungarian Sebastian Hosu, Vice-President and Chair of AFCO, keeps different things in different pockets. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd his guitar, his music collection/iPod and something to write on. If Sebastian were a New Idea from Eurasia he would be the idea of getting over nationalism in favor of a more united continent.

Turkish Melisa Kumar, the Chair of ITRE, fi lls her pockets with her vibrate-mode phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd water, her sister and lots of balloons. If Melisa were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be a little gadget that color codes things for your convenience.

Turkish Öykü Talı, Chair of AFCO fi lls her pockets with her cellphone, her lipstick and hair pins. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd all kinds of Italian food, her friends and a comfortable bed. She has no idea what New Idea from Eurasia she would be if she was one.

Polish Magdalena Pietras, Chair of INTA, fi lls her pockets with her iPhone and a lighter. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd coffee, cigarettes and her mobile phone. And if Magdalena were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be a kebab.

Life in plastic? Maybe metal? Tua Malmberg tries to fold the chairs, whatever they’re made of.

Turkish Aslı Öncel, Chair of JURI, fi lls her pockets with her phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd Şeyma Taşel, her phone and her ID. If Aslı were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be chocolate without calories but with the same taste.

Austrian Vera Geck, Vice President and Chair of JURI, fi lls her pockets with chewing gum, a lucky charm her Mother once gave her, lip balm and her phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd a collection of sunglasses, sparkling water and notebook with a pencil. If Vera were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be an environmentally friendly, sustainable and sweet kebab.

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Turkish Şeyma Taşel, Chair of LIBE fi lls her pockets with her phone and her Sprite Lip-Smacker. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd her computer, her typewriter and Melisa Kumar. If Şeyma were a New Idea from Eurasia she would be the idea of introducing Compulsory Beatles Classes for High Schools around Eurasia.

British Dunja Tanovic, the chair of FEMM, fi lls her pockets with lip balm, coins and her – a little bit too large – phone. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd her brother. Dunja does not know what New Eurasian Idea she would be, but she hopes the session will help her fi gure it out.

Turkish Ali Kerem Araboglu, the Chair of ENVI, fi lls his pockets with his key, his wallet and his iPhone. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd his iPhone, his headphones and his friends. If Ali Kerem were a New Idea from Eurasia he would be the idea of establishing a “sports culture” among young people.

Italian-German-French Giada Benfatto, Chair of EMPL, fi lls her pockets with coins, keys, a lighter and notes. In her end-of-the-world dream pock-et you would fi nd her keys, her iPod and a shotgun. Her favorite part of a session is the beginning of it when meet all of the people in happy chaos.

Dutch Dirk Hofl and, Chair of SEDE, fi lls his pockets with his wallet, his cellphone, keys and pens. In his end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd his watch, his bike and his cat. And if Dirk were a New Idea from Eura-sia he would be the idea of a multicultural society.

Finnish Henriikka Hannula, Chair of AFET fi lls her pockets with random bus, metro and museum tickets from her travels. In her end-of-the-world dream pocket you would fi nd her little sister, her books and her “beloved iPhone”. Because of her love of History Henriikka would not be a New Idea from Eurasia – She would be an ancient one.

your pocket

Tuna Dökmeci talks about perhaps the most underestimated part of clothing ever made. Can you guess what it is?

You might think that the greatest inven-tion of all times is the wheel. It is the

basic of every single mechani-cal invention that followed, or the printing machine, for it made books accessible to eve-ryone, or the antibiotics for their contribution to medi-cine. Big deal. How about your biggest helpers which are so often taken for granted? Underestimation. That is, and has always been the big-gest fault of the humankind. Such great artists, such great philosophers, such great inven-

tors and such great inventions have been either neglected or underestimated throughout the centuries. Some, like Nikola Te-sla, have been later recognised for their contribution to the hu-manity. Some, however, like the pockets and their anonymous inventor(s) still remain to be ig-nored.

You might, and you probably do, think that this ignorance is a rightful one. I bet that many of you never stopped to think what a won-derful thing a pocket is as you were busy with filling it with all sorts of things you couldn’t live

without. That is why, I see it as my duty to make you stop for a second and cherish these little can’t-do-without helpers.

Let’s start with the prac-tical side of the pockets. Ac-cording to Hegel, one of the principles of dialectics is that the quantity transforms itself into quality in time. Apply this to pockets, and you’ll see how important they are. Have you ever realised how many times per day you use your pockets? I counted for two hours each time I used my pocket, and it was already 12. What else on earth does a human being use

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that much? Especially if you’re a man and therefore don’t use a bag, the number increases even more. And don’t get me started when it comes to for what we use the pockets. Because the answer is basically everything.

You put your phone, your keys, papers to cheat on an exam, money, snack, your lipstick, your ID, a pocket book, you can leave a small message in the pocket of your beloved one, you can make anonymous jokes by putting funny notes in pockets of your friends, and according to Hollywood ro-mantic-comedies you can even propose through pockets. The possibilities are simply limit-less.

But the most brilliant part of pockets is that, unlike

most of the practical inven-tions, they have an emotional and nostalgic side which every once in a while softens eve-ryone’s heart. Whenever I go through my pockets, I discover some small things I had forgot-ten about. No matter how little they cost, or how unimportant they are, they make my day. A train ticket to a city where you had the time of your life, a bill of a dinner that you had with your best friends a long time ago, a coin from a foreign country or a name of a book that someone had writ-ten down for you… Finding such things in your pockets can make you as happy as a child who is just given a chocolate bar, it helps you think about things you hadn’t thought for a while, it reminds you the peo-

ple whom you hadn’t seen for a long time, it is a way of Mother Nature telling you that time run fast. So you see dear reader, there is much to the pockets than we give credit for. Not only they are simply the most useful and the most used in-vention of the world, every now and then they work as an old photograph by offering you little things from the past. Thus said, I would like to conclude my words by calling you to give the importance to the pocket it had always deserved but never received.

Estimation^

Could you describe yourself in one sentence?

Describe myself in one sentence… Well, I’ll just use the standard I guess! Hi, I’m Tiago 25 going on 26 and I come from Lisbon Portugal. It’s as basic as it gets I guess!

Do you have a passion, something that you really, really love? Apart from EYP.

Cooking! It’s something that I really, really love do-ing! Cooking, yes absolutely.

Why?

Quite frankly, because I’m not too bad at it and I think it’s always easy to like things we are natural-ly good at. In the beginning when I started cooking more seriously, other than the odd steak and chips, I started cooking because I had to. I moved out and I moved out on my own, basically, and I was eighteen which is fresh and I knew how to cook basic things. You know, slowly but steady I started to experiment with a few other things and when they came out al-right, you know, I had a house to myself basically so I started inviting people over and then more people over and then other people over and then I would try the same thing with different people or try the same thing with slight differences and serve to the same people coming over again. I don’t know, I just started experimenting with things and I figured out that, you know, I’m not too bad at this. I could man-age a few things and I picked up a lot of tips and a lot of tricks from other people as well. And it really

developed into something that I really, really en-joy doing and I do it. But, that’s a funny thing for instance. You would assume that I love cooking and therefore I cook for myself a lot, but that’s not true. If I have people over, I love to cook. So it’s a lot based on entertaining people, having people over and see-ing their reactions. I really like to see their reactions! Over the years, this was seven years ago, people have developed their own little favorites and every now and then I’ve got friends saying “Hey, when are you going to make that again?” and I say “I don’t know, we’ll see”. It’s always really cool, I enjoy that. I enjoy cooking for people.

Is it the same thing with EYP, is that why you like being President and make sessions for people?

It is, it is you’re right! To an extent it is actually. There is a funny parallel there! The first time I Presided a session it was an accident. It was not something that was planned. It was just basically because I had to. I applied to this session, together with Vera the Vice President and a friend of ours. One day I got an e-mail saying “You were selected, congratulations.” and I was very happy. Then, a week letter, I get an e-mail saying “Hi, I’m the President of the Session, would you like to be my VP?”. I was super excited about the whole thing, it was the first time I was go-ing to be a VP. A week later I get another e-mail from the Head Organiser saying “The President cancelled, you are now the President.”. I thought: OK, So that’s how it works! It was out of necessity; it was a bit like the cooking thing. And you know, I tried with a bit of this and that and I got a lot of tips, a lot of help in the

Mr^.President^

Tua Malmberg & Can Şehirlioğlu had a talk with him! The per-son that we all love to listen to - Tiago.

beginning, just like with the cooking, and now it is something that I do for the people.

This got me thinking about you trying new things with sessions and about the Pocket Theme. Why pockets?

Why pockets? We’ve got Kārlis to blame, the Latvian Editor. We’re staying at Kabataş and in Latvian “ka-batas“ means “pockets”. A couple of days before the session we were on Skype and I asked him if he had any crazy editorial concepts and he sent me a PDF that I thought looked nice and we talked and he told me that it means “pockets” and that it was just so random that it might work. I said: You know what? If you make it the press-room theme, I’ll make it the unofficial theme of the session. So we did! And here we go, pockets for everyone.

Another thing about pockets that you might not know is that, according to a recent survey, most of the delegates of this session would choose to put you in their pocket over every other participant. How do you feel about that?

I feel pocketed!

What do you put in your pockets?

I’m going to sound like a maniac, but I will say it

anyway. I always put the exact same things in my pocket, and I always put them in the exact same pock-

ets. In my left front pocket I always put my phone. In my right front pocket I put money, just coins and a lighter. In my right back pocket I always put my wal-let and my left back pocket is always free.

Do you have any advice to all of the first time EYP:ers?

I could spend an hour doing this! Enjoy it. Seriously. It sounds cliché; it sounds like a typical thing to say but it the most important one. Yes, there is competi-tion. Yes, there are nineteen other schools. Yes, they are all very good. Yes, you are very good as well, but enjoy it. The Jury will see that. The people who will select you will see that. If you’re here doing someone a favor, your mother your teacher they will spot that too. So, seriously, enjoy it.

And now, we will end this interview by asking the Chair’s favourite question from the Chair’s in-troduction: If you were a New Idea from Eurasia, which idea would you be?

I think I will have to call a Miss India on this one. I would like to be the idea that would solve the prob-lems in Eurasia. I don’t know what that is, but Miss India-me wants to save the children and the planet and do all sorts of good things. I would like to be the one idea, if that’s possible.

Starting with the Deputy Head, Eda Gürdereoğlu, who wel-comes you with her heart-warming smile. Short, but fi lled with fresh ideas you could see her do great attack speeches... if only she was a delegate! Always unlucky, as she says herself, but a lovely friend to share a laugh with, coming from the heart of Bursa.

A Galatasaray fan. You can see Arda

Meriç enjoying a bicycle ride in the summer breeze.

Loves to chill and watch a TV show, as much as he does playing

basketball or hitting the cinema with his friends on weekends. Can’t wait to

swim again,

A true gourmet-to-be, Enescan Karaer, never takes delicious food for grant-

ed and is fascinated by Formula 1. Also enjoys paintings and dif-

ferent kinds of music, He is a man of art. Lazy, as he might

call himself, could spend a day in front of the computer or just

hang out with his friends.

Berk Manav searches through the souls of the busy ants of this session. The ants of the Bosphorus.

Attending from Notre Dame de Sion, we have our French girl, Aslı Korkmaz. Catch her reading Camus or Proust in French or translating an old Ottoman excerpt. She loves to read and unbelievably hates shopping. as she says, Aslı was also caught doing Model UN at my school, Robert College.

Energetic and smiling, Furkan Kalender is always there to help. Not only talkative, but also speaks really fast and has many hobbies. A great basketball player, and a true shark in Texas Hold'em, Furkan also loves to solve mind-boggling sudoku’s and go to sleep after using all that energy.

Sad? Just wait until you meet Görkem Uzunyolcu, who can defi nitely make you

smile. With his fresh sense of humor, he is always there for you. A huge Fener-

bahçe fan and a future plastic sur-geon, he loves French people

and admires how they some-times struggle to talk Eng-

lish.

Organisers on

One of the youngest of us all, Onur Can Uçarer dreams of being a doctor and cruis-ing all around the world with a yacht. (He might refuse he is the sibling of Eda, but he is actually, trust me on this one.) Also a tennis-player and enjoys playing the guitar.

Another French visitor from Notre Dame de Sion, Ozan Yağcılar's two greatest pas-

sions are music and cinema. Great ad-mirer of Robert Downey Jr. as an actor,

you can always see Ozan with his camera. Loves a good talk about

geography.

Staying as a resident on the Bosphorus, İlker Dikme comes from Kocaeli, the neighbor of Is-tanbul. They say when he plays the guitar and sings before the beautiful view, all the seagulls fl ock around to admire him. Music is his life, as he plays many other instruments too.

A total genetics freak, Olcay Soloyan wants

to study molecular biol-ogy. Wants to be done with

high school as soon as possi-ble and loves to see the fun side

of everything. Often sarcastic and carefree, she is famous for always being

able to have fun. So just go up to her for a sincere chat!

Our accomodation orga, Tamer Özgenloves travelling. Venice has impressed him a lot as it is his favourite city among all. Also a new learner of guitar and you can always talk to him about the Lord of the Rings, as he is the biggest fan. Also is a great swimmer - started at ten.

Yağmur Yüksel has been playing the piano

since was in kindergarten which makes us go: wow!

She loves orienteering and is a resident of Kabataş. She is proud

to be from Eskişehir and is very pro-tective of her hometown. You can see

her hang out around Çırağan with Eda on beautiful Sunday mornings!

Yaprak Damla Yıldırım actually loves to plan everything by writing it out. Famous for her to-do lists she is a true organiser. Prefers acting over sports and loves to write poems. There she is, day-dreaming, or the exact opposite, creating and planning every-thing around us at the ses-sion!

Zeynep Ceren Topaç has the chance to wake up and see the beautiful Bosphorus every

morning from her school window. Shar-ing her hometown with Eda, she

comes from Bursa and loves to talk a lot - and fast! - Both a president

of the MUN Club and a con-tinuing swimmer.

the bosphorus

Have you ever thought about a devil in your pocket? Şayen Tokyay has gathered sayings from all over the World for your pleasure.

Here or there, now and then, people slap the word pocket in their sentences without

thinking how irreplaceable the word is in their linguis-tics, But no, not only in one specifi c language. Pocket, as an exquisite word and an es-teemed component of idioms, holds a signifi cant position in whole worlds’ linguistics. If you want to fi nd out how this precious word serves for idi-oms in languages, I hope you are ready to roll to become a respectful expert on pockets’ meanings on a global scale.

The opening is from Lithuanians. 'Jūs nieko gyven-ime pasiekti su tuščiu kišenėje.' (One cannot achieve anything with an empty pocket). Now that one was harsh. And it leaves an

open door, huh, Lithuanians? What exactly do we need to have in our pockets to achieve anything, does a piece of par-mesan from the Eurovillage of the last session we attended count?

Secondly, it‘s Turks‘ turn. 'Kimin eli kimin cebinde.' (Who‘s hand is in who‘s pocket). Turkish people love the jum-bled relationships and situa-tions entwined and the idiom about jumbled up situations is a meritorious proof for that.

Next, a proverb from England: 'The devil dances in empty pockets.' So, I kindly in-vite you to listen what a wise British said and empty your pockets, everyone. It‘s time to wait for the party rocking in your pocket.

Following the British saying, it‘s time to tell a little story. Once upon a time, an Ital-ian gentlemen afraid of devils dubsteping in his pocket, began to spend all his time arrang-

ing the budget, deciding how to have a full pocket all his life. Then, suddenly, seven words dropped from his mouth, 'Fare i conti in tasca a qualcuno.' (Cop-ing in someone‘s pocket), and that was left as a legacy to the global pocket linguistics.

All in all, hoping that you have a brand new international pocket of pocketful idioms, fresh and precious sayings, one last curios phrase comes for you: 'Arrän kierrän orren ympäri, ässän pistän taskuuni.' (I´ll wrap “R” around the raft-er and put “S” into my pocket). Now, do not cheat by asking a Finnish to answer that but ei-ther deal with it or go pockets.

The Devil dances in empty pockets!

global pockets

Christianity? Islam? That’s all old news! Ecem Aydoğan gives you the insight on the newest fab. Pocketism it is!

As the concept of pockets gets more and more popular through the ses-

sion’s participants, I have felt the strongest urge to inform our very precious readers that whatever connection felt to-wards pockets is not just a 4 day-long-session adoration but it is a spiritual one, too.

It is the kind of connec-tion that makes you believe it could all come true for you, that “the pocket” is really all that you need. And it is a con-nection that comes from a very fundamental belief, a religion, to be exact: Pocketism.

The roots of Pocketism go as far as the 17th century, when pockets were fi rst in-vented. Approximately 25 years

after the inventions, John Pock-ett, was chosen specifi cally by

the Holiest of The Pocket Spir-its to be responsible for deliv-ering the basics of the religion to people and having it spread around them. This is exactly why John Pockett is considered sacred according to Pocketism and is commonly known as Saint Pockett around contem-porary Pocketists.

Although there have been countless debates and confusions on what idea the religion of Pocketism serves, the most truthful information can be found in the uncon-taminated Holy Book of Pock-etism, the “Kabata”. As Kabata

writes and I quote, “Thou shal worship them for they are the salvation.”, it could be inferred that Pocketism is strongly about becoming purifi ed of the stress and fatiuge an event (maybe an EYP session, who knows) may cause simply by believing in the power of pockets and their roles in daily life.

As a fi rm believer in Pocketism, I can easily say that if you truly are devoted to the idea, you understand the Kaba-ta and fi nd your salvation deep within the pockets.

Find salvation deep within your pockets!

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Celebrities converted to pocketism - Ecem Aydoğan’s top threeTom Cruise has confi rmed that Pocketism is way above scientol-ogy and decid-ed to become a fi rm believer of Pocketism.

Ajdar also gave up his obsessions since he stated that Pocketism makes more sense to him than worship-ping bananas.

Mr. President also converted to Pocketism, claiming that he eventually had to give in to his intense bonding with pockets.

Can Şehirlioğlu knows pockets. Their history, to be more precise. Don’t wonder anymore - he has the answers.

Simply, the defi nition of the word 'pocket' would be 'a very small bag like at-

tachment'. It is called like that because the fi rst pockets were small pouches. Those hung from the belt and it was used to carry coins or other valuable stuff.

Since a pocket is an out-side attachment, it was unfortu-nately subject to thieves. When the number of robberies in-creased, people started keeping their purses inside their trou-sers. So this deterred the pick-pockets by making the theft more diffi cult.

But, there was again a problem: Even though keep-ing one’s pouch inside of one’s trousers made it more diffi cult for pickpockets to get at it, it also made it more diffi cult for the owner of the pouch at the fi rst place to get at the contents. As the purpose of the pouch was to make it easy to carry one’s valuables, now making it impossible to get at the contents inside it without embarrass-ment was not a good solution. Imagine you are in a public marketplace and you need to drop your pants, make every-one see your red tight under-wear, your butt and everything

so you can pay the bill for your shopping. (At those times not only did people have interior pockets, but they also did not wear undergarments)

The next stage of evo-lution of the pocket was what most people can describe today: a simple slit in the clothing. A 15cm cut into the side of your trousers would enable you to reach your purse easily, while others would fi nd it awkward or diffi cult to reach in without your knowledge. This develop-ment so called the cut on the cloth caused a development in the shape and the angle of the purse, and it was the time that people began to call it pockets. After the pocket revolution, pockets became two pieces of cloth, the one at the back and the other shaped almost like a ‘U’ or a ‘V’.

If we look at the normal pockets we must go back to the trousers again. Lets say it’s 1785 before some poor guy gets so stressed out because of his hard labor work and has problems trying to remember to tie his “belt-pocket” on every morn-ing. Somehow you know a per-son like this. This is a person who forgets to put his trousers on before wearing his shoes,

but pocket manufacturers are expecting him to even remem-ber to tie his pocket before his trousers.

Yet, he looks like your weirdo friend. Therefore, he asks his wife to sew the pocket right to his trousers so he will never forget it again. And you have it. The friendly pocket everyone know and love since childhood. Helps to warm cold hands, look cool while your hands are in, put the things you just stole and so on.

Yes, of course, pock-ets have gone trough many changes since that vital day. People have placed pockets in other places than the ones on the waist: on the knee, on the thigh, and on the chest. Some retro people even returned to practice inside pockets, again requiring people to pull down their trousers and “impress” the supermarket in order to reach their cash.

FIRE TO pockets

Everyone agrees, EYP sessions are lots of fun. You meet interesting new people, you visit

exciting new places and you do fun new things. But what about missing home and espe-cially the people you left there?

When you go to an EYP session, there is always the part before the actual session when you say goodbye to your loved ones, be they pets, parents or friends. You know you will be back soon, you are excited about the next few days and you cannot wait to be there, to get started. At the same time you get a bit of an uneasy feel-ing in the bottom of your stom-ach, knowing that everyone and everything you’re leaving behind will be far away from you for the time being.

At the session you are so busy with all the new im-pressions that for the moment

you forget about anything you might be missing, it is mostly just when you receive a face-book message or text that you realize, you are having a great time but you miss that person.

Usually this occurs in the evenings, sometime between getting to the place you are staying at and falling asleep. Even though you are feeling lucky about being there and re-ally, truly loving it, you sudden-ly fi nd yourself jealous of your friends, because they might be doing something you would enjoy, meeting with people you would like to see or spending time with each other while you are surrounded by strangers.

If you start feeling like this, rest assured, it is absolute-ly normal. Everyone feels this

way, some more so and some less. If you miss a person that is just a sign that they are impor-tant to you and you are looking forward to seeing them again.

Enjoy that, enjoy know-ing you care about someone enough that you miss him or her. But most importantly, re-member to enjoy yourself. You are at a session and that is amazing. The session should be the predominant thing on your mind as it will be over soon enough anyway. Enjoy it while it lasts, everyone and every-thing will still be there when you get back home.

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You know, you will be back soon!

How are you feeling? Enjoying your time here? Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds knows that it might turn sour.

The best comfort food - Lāra Niamh Eckert Reinfelds’s top threeGiving you lots and lots of hap-py-hormones, chocolate is the perfect food for when you’re down.

A nice cup of tea arms the heart and soul. I un-derstand Turks prefer plain black tea, served in special glasses.

Especially with these warm temperature ice-cream is a won-derful pick-me-up. It’s smooth, soft and sweet.

Cem Horasan explores the levels of love surrounding the session. What surprises could you fi nd in your pockets?

Do you remember the guy who was walking around ask-ing you about at-

tractive people and pockets? As you may have guessed al-ready I – the one who asked those questions – will be telling every secret you gave to me.

If I was able to give you a mini heart attack there good for me, because I won’t be giving you away, please FEMM I’m not that evil.

Now that I am done jok-ing I have some interesting an-swers that I think all the partici-pants would want to know.

As strange as it may seem, I believe that pockets are going to be the new way of showing one’s affection to an-other. In fact even the creepy

ways are cute in some way. So here goes my opinions on “Pocket Flirting”.

The main question was about expressing your feelings towards your crush by putting something in their pockets but before that, I asked the opinions of some of the participants on attractive people, so that those gorgeous people wouldn’t get shocked if they found anything strange in their pockets. Which means you Erdem, if you fi nd some coffee in your pocket don’t be surprised.

Other than the obvious fact that Erdem is a handsome boy, I’d like to warn you peo-ple, if you fi nd baklava – a turk-ish dessert – wrapped inside a hundred lira note, I think the creepiest guy of all has a crush on you, which is unlikely but if you do happen to fi nd baklava in your pocket lots of girls are going to be jealous of you.

Aside of the sweet cli-chés which involve putting

signatures, pictures and phone numbers in pockets, there were some original ideas too. There was this girl who would like to put a note saying “I am go-ing to be in your country this summer” in her crush’s pocket which I thought was quite in-triguing. Other than notes I be-lieve that we will be seeing a lot of people putting their hands in each others pockets because it seemed like the most popular gesture to show one’s interest in one another.

Although “Pocket Flirt-ing” may seem like an unusual thing, I’m sure that in the fu-ture of this session it’s going to be one of the best ways to break the ice. So this time instead of shaking hands just put your hands in each other’s pockets. Not that fast! You understand... Right?

Flirty pockets

Don’t be surprised to find coffee in your pockets!

Manar Youssef knows weird. This time she takes a look inside your pockets. And weird is mildly said, guys.

Melisa Kumar (Chair): “Once I had a tree trunk in my pocket. I saw it on the ground and felt like picking it up. It was during last April I think, did it just be-cause I can.”

Alihan Yörük: “I had a piece of chocolate, it wasn’t such a good idea. It melted and got smeared all over my hands at a friends home four years ago.”

Deniz Urut: “I’d have to say a tie because you usually don’t have a tie in your pocket. I did it after every EYP session.”

Kerem Küçükay: “The weirdest thing I’ve had in my pocket is my earphones. I think it’s weird because I never put them there, and this morning they were suddenly there.”

Ege Çigragan: “I found a melt-ed gum in my pocket once, it had melted after fallen out of the box. It was during a day in Antalya fi ve years ago.”

Eylül Öğüt: “My necklace, I al-ways lose it and then manage to fi nd it at the strangest places. It shouldn’t be in my pocket.”

Hazel Şermet: “I had my ham-

ster in my pocket because I love it. It was 6 years ago at Dona college. Everybody were play-ing with it, I even rode a horse when I had it in the pocket.”

İlkim İzel Önel: “I always have an adapter in my pocket, mostly because all of my devices aren’t adapted to the Turkish sockets. Which is weird.”

Can Bilir: “I have a miniature shoe in my pocket. My mom bought it from church for pro-tection and to prevent evil to come to me. I got it about a month ago.”

Anonymous: “The weirdest thing I have is a painting brush.

It’s not normal to have a paint-ing a painting brush in your pocket but I have it because I like to draw during awkward situations. I have it on me al-most everyday.”

Kutay Koraltürk: “The weird-est thing I’ve had I my pocket is a insect. It was so soft and I thought it was cotton so I start-

ed to play with it in my pocket. It took a long long time before I realised that it was an insect. It probably got there during a trip to the forest.”

Pinar Topçam: “I think that the weirdest thing in my pocket was a memory card for a cam-era. My friend had borrowed it so when she gave it back I didn’t have the camera on me so I put it in my pocket. It’s weird to have something like that in your pocket because it’s small and can easily get lost.”

Mert Özkarakaş: “I had cookies once, I mean you’re supposed to eat that stuff and not have it in your pockets.”

weirdest pockets

I had my hamster in my pocket once.

Şayen Tokyay off ers you a chance to take a sight. Just one, though. ‘Cause all of these people have their fi rst sights sett led.

• Batu (SEDE):1. İlayda. She is the fi rst one I met this morning, so she is kind of special.2. Hugo the journo. He has style, he is super cool and on the top of all, he reminds me of Monaco.

• Oğuzhan (ENVI) : 1. Defne. (Just looks around with a shy Romeoish smile on his face.) 2. Tiago. Merely because he is the President.

• Sonat (JURI):1. Talya. She is one of those hap-py-funny-always-smiling girl.2. Aslı the chair. She is really cheerful, aweso...Wait, forget that, she’s just the best person.

• Efe Hans (LIBE):1. Şeyma. (He repeats.) Şeyma. (Thinks a little bit) Of course Şeyma. (Nods a couple of times). 2. Sonat for sure. He is so crea-tive, he’ll make me like stuff.

• Jim Cem (LIBE):1. Selma Şeyma the chair. Guess why?2. Mustafa from EMPL. Be-cause I think I like him.

• Ömer (AFET):1. Henriikka for sure, she is such a joyful chair. Indeed she is.2. Ceyda from SEDE. Well she can take care of lots of things at the same time.

• Dilge (SEDE):1. Dirk because he’s so sweet and cheerful.2. Levent from AFCO, because he’s my boyfriend.

• Levent (AFCO):1. Sebastian because he knows how to entertain people and he is really funny.2. Dilge, you know, girlfriend is-sues. By the way, did you make this interview with her too? She had better given my name...

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“Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Mmmhh.. okay. But what about an ultimate reality of our lives: fi rst impression? Can you, the precious reader, discard that warm feeling you get when you fi rst met with someone or the extremely fast judgement you make about the person you just saw?

Now, after the session has started, there is no greater time to have fi rst impressions for each and everyone in the session. So I wondered and asked the delegates: Depending on the fi rst impressions today, who will be the two people they choose to put in their pockets for the rest of the session? To carry them everyday, everynight and to live happily ever after, for sure.

The fi rst person they chose was a member of the committee, and the second was just a random one from the session. There goes the exact versions of the satisfactory answers, with their perfect reason-ing.

Manar Youssef & Şayen Tokyay went to a fortune-teller. What did she have to say about your committ ee?

AFCO: After a lot of thought and effort, you’ve noticed that you had a hard time letting a new member into the family. Just slow down, AFCO, maybe you should be more persistent about your priorities rather than insisting on getting what’s too far from your reach.

AFET: One does not simply de-cide between a sunny day in January to a warm and cosy day in July. Are you really making the right decisions? Maybe not at the moment, AFET, and only time will tell. Or you may want to ask for advice, after all, a wise person’s pocket can never hurt.

EMPL: The struggles you’ve been facing are due to your lack of experience. However, try not to get too lost in your dream world and try to focus on your career. Never let a pocket mis-lead you into the darkness.

ENVI: Hey, ENVI, your pockets are found to be full of choco-late nowadays, have your ever thought of replacing them with something green? If it goes on like this, international forces will have to interfere with your fat pockets. Just saying.

FEMM: Don’t forget that all pockets are born equal and have a right to exercise Pock-etism, you FEMM. So raise your voice, act against the discrimi-nation that you’re facing, and don’t ever try to cover yourself up. Be active.

INTA: You seem to are losing your balance in life, but don’t panic. Just organise, get your trades right and everything will solve itself eventually.

ITRE: They say that too much ego kills your talent, ITRE. As-suming that everybody’s de-pendent on you won’t get you too far. Just bare in mind that you are not in a position where you would want enemies around.

JURI: There is too much pres-

sure on you and you feel un-able to express yourself. Also, the implementations of your new plans has caused you a lot of stress. Is it the way it should be? Today, try to be more confi -dent, JURI! You can do it.

LIBE: You’ve been experiencing a huge clash of opinions in your life in the past few days, LIBE. But you should be respecting others’ ideas, without giving them the permission to shut you down.

SEDE: You will be dealing with some issues that threaten your security in these couple of days, SEDE, so beware. Since a dreadful dispute coming from your past, you might want to include peaceful solutions in your pocket.

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