GUIDING AND SCOUTING IN TURKEYINFORMATION ABOUT ACTIVITIES, YOUTH PROGRAMME LANGUAGE, GAMES. FOOD,HISTORY, SKITS, SONGS TRADITIONS AND MANY MORE

OUR SCOUTS AND GUIDESBORAN Guide and Scout group is a new Scout and Guide Group in Ankara Turkey There is abrownie/cub scout pack and a Guide/Scout troop in our group.Poyraz and Fırtına are their namesPoyraz brownie and cubs meet every week for two hours.

We participated to JOTA and 14th Ankara Provincial Scout camp

Brownies and Cubs watching Oskar award presenrtations for best Peace videos from Ankara Scout Groups

Our girls on Thinking day presenting India

PEACE IN THE COUNTRY PEACE IN THE WORLDPeace in the Country Peace in the World said by founder of modern Turkish Republic says it decades before. Now toward 2007 it is the time to make something. The Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey established a project on peace for Gift for Peace project of centenary and we all working on it.

Our troop members

Our troop members.Some years ago

THESE ARE FOR MAKING SKITSNASRETTIN HODJA STORIESNasrettin Hodja who is very popular with his shortstories lived in early 13th century in Anatolia. His name is Nasrettin He was a priest (hodja) who leads people in the mosque. Some stories attributed to him. also many countries around Turkey including central Asian Turkish republics also have similar hodjas with similar stories. Every year there is an international festival in Aksehir town of Konya province for him. An international cartoon competition and many other activities

Here is one of his stories

People was very poor at that time in Anatolia and country was under occupation of Generals of Chengiz khan. But one day he find a way and bought six pounds of veal cutlets and send it to home with a note to his wife. and asked her to cook them the way he liked for supper that evening. Since the hodja was away all day working hard somewhere, Her wife cooked the veal cutlet and invited all the ladies in the neighbor.Hodja, On returning home with a pleasantly growing appetite. He asked if the cutlets ready. His wife fearing his anger thought a lie to cover her mistake and told him that the cat eaten all of them. Hodja catches the cat placed it on the kitchen scale and found that it weighted also 6 pounds. Turning her wife asked: If this is the cat, where is the cutlet and is what I hold in my hands are the cutlets where is the cat.***Another one***Hodja has a dishonest neighbor to him he wanted to teach a lesson. One day he asked him for to loan his cauldron( a very big and deep cooking utencil). After a few days he returned it with a small saucepan in it. When the man asked what it was all about. Hodja answered that his cauldron had given birth to a baby- a sauce pan. The man accepted the answer and was very happy.A short while after Hodja again asked for the loan of the same cauldron. His neighbor hoping for another birth run to bring it for hodja even help to carry it to hodja'a house.This time many days passed and there was no news from hodja. He decided to ask hodja for his caoldron.Hodja said that "Please accept my sincere condolences and said it with a very sad face Your cauldron was died. "What- my cauldron is dead. cried out amazed neighbor.-Whoever heard of a couldron died?"Hodja answered:

Our troop preparing for Internatıonal peace day

What an incredulous man you are? "What is there surprising in the death of a cauldron which could give birth to a pan?

WEB PAGES

http://www.byegm.gov.tr/

go to kids page right down corner

Information about Turkey I think that it fits for brownies. A girlpresenting Turkey with her photo album Route of our Journey Edirne, KirkpnarWrestling Troy, Aegean Civilizations, Ephesus, Bodrum, Pamukkale, Home ofFather Christmas, Aspendos Enjoying the Sun, Nasreddin Hodja, Konya, Goreme,Eastern Anatolia, Nemrut Mountain, Mount Ararat, Black Sea Coast TheSeljuks, The Hittites, Ankara, Alexander the Great, Kutahya, Bursa,Istanbul, More about Istanbul and more about IstanbulTurkih Historyhttp://www.mfa.gov.tr/grupc/default.htm

Turkish Culture and History

http://www.discoverturkey.com/

You will find everything about Turkey, music culture habitat traditionsmuseums clothing folk information

I put some pictures from following web pages. There will be more withpictures of young girls with their folk dresses

SOME INFO ABOUT FOLK DANCESIt is very different thing when a Republic rise from ruins of 600yrs oldempire and in a land where very different civilization past over 10000 yrs.This land is Anatolia, The new Republic is Turkish Republic and the Empireis Ottoman Empire. Many things changed with the Turkish Republic. The Founder

Local traditional Houses

Atatürk and the state created a modern civilization. But we still keep sometraditions and old habits. Folk dances is one of them. Almost every region has its own. The most important usage of folk dances is the country side weddings. Theymade local dances all day. The most famous and simplest one is HALAY which I am trying tosend to you a video about it.

HERE IS SOME INSTRUCTIONSAll Turks knows it. people side by side puts their arms over to ones'shoulder on both sides and make three steps to right1. Left foot step to right over right foot2. Right foot step to right3. left foot step to right again4. right foot step to right again5. swing the left foot to right6. swing the right food to left.Do all over again and continuethe head dancer at the most right has a big white handkerchief in hishand. She or he turns it around and swings it according the tempo.Mostly she or he goes around the place and everybody joins them.The musical instruments are only a drum and a simple clarinetBut the popular folk dance is different from region to region. Some timemixed some time only men some time only women.Most of the local dances has their legendsMost of the wedding in towns begin with a tango 99% of the time it is Lacomparsita. Tangos goes on some popular dances may come but they always endwith halay and another traditional dance which we call ciftetelli.Most of the schools has folk dance groups and there is national competitionsfor their dances and for costumes for different age groups.There is also associations for folk dancing. Specially for elementary schoolstudents like to send their children mostly girls to special folk danceteaching groupsI will try to send some more information when I receive the CD-ROM from oneof those associationsEvery year 23 April is Our Children festival. Here in Ankara our main TV

Fork dancers

Making a giant peace dowe

Giant peace dowe is flaying on International Peace Day

Channel makes a grand scale event with children from some 40 countries.Children came from all over the world stays about 10 days with families. Alldemonstrate their folk dances. I will try to find a video . about this event

.I am not an expert on our folk dances ( I am 63 but still love to make polka twist and cha cha and even I am not afraid to make Charleston) and still waiting one of our groups project on that. When they finish it I may give better information

Thanks to the people who ask me about folk dances. It bring some partstogether and I really enjoyed myself by writing this letteryours in guiding

A GAME ELECTRICITY

A game for youELECTRICITYGuides and scouts make a circle holds hands with each other loosely. One become transformer. And one on the other side becomes a generator. There is a watchman on the middle. Generator squeezes the hand of the other guide or scout next to him (right or left one). Every one whose hand is squeezed squeezes the hand of next one. When the hand of transformer squeezed. He/she shouts Beep! Beep! Beep! After tenth Beep! Beep! Beep! . Watchman must find out the generator before the tenth Beep! Beep! Beep! The one who found the generator earliest is the winner

Game told by Guide Leader Ayca Genclik Scout and Guide GroupAnkara Province Scouts and Guides

Note: This is a story based on the current youth program and regulations of Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey. Member WAGGGS and WOSM

CLEAN UP THE WORLDTHIS IS A PROJECT FROM AUSTRALIANS WHICH IS SUPPORTED BY UNITED NATIONS ENVIRONMENTAL PROGRAMEvery year at the third full weekend of September we join to this event. Some 100 millions of people all around the world we make clean up and environmental protection project. Now it became citywide festivals in some of our cities. There are many Guide and scout associations around the world

who are participating. This year we made a clean up activity at the beach in Antalya. Some diversalso joined us to collect litter from under the water. Later in the afternoon we also collected the litter in one of the main parks of the city. Many people joined us. We exhibited our

environmental work like the things we made for recycling. We made skits, sing songs and projected a video to a wide screen.We made posters to show our work with Marine Protection Association of Turkey. All along the summer Scouts and guides make weekly trips at Antalya bay with the boat of this Association top make ecological measurements, Watch beaches for cleanness. Check the habitat of monk seals ofMediterranean in their habitat. Join us, some time in the future to see our country. Historical sitesaround Antalya and other places. Even you can see the church of St Nicolas whom you call Santa Clause the real one. Please share with us your activities if you are participating to this activity

JOTA & JOTITHIS IS THE BIGGEST YOUTH EVENT IN THE WORLD. EVERY YEAR SOME HALF A MILLIONSCOUTS AND GUIDES ENJOY FRIENDSHIP ON THE AIR AND ON THE INTERNET

Every year at the third weekend of October more than half million of scouts and guides participating this event. Some 30000 amateur radioman helps us in over one hundred countries. Scouts and guides speaking each other, making predestinated projects. Getting know each other. As Turkish guides we are participating this event since 1990 Every year we have a different program. We are learning communication rulesand if the noise permits we are speaking many countries. Some time we are doing interesting activities like making message bottles and sending them to other countries and waiting for answers. Every year we make a new logo, Three times the design selected from Turkey at the 42. JOTA a girl from Black Sea area made it. Now we are also chat and send e-mails on the Internet too. This is called Jamboree on the Internet

LANDS OF ADVANTUREThis was the flagship project of European Scout Region in 2004 where troops made ICT based projects. All over the Europe some 20 projects accomplished and 18 of them was from turkey. And two from Austria. The first project submitted was made by a troop with learning disabilities. They made a 10 feet long ship model. A troop from Muğla all girls made a semaphore teaching slıde show. Another one made a peace song in Sea festival in Istanbul.

OUR UNIFORM

Our guide and scout uniforms are always same for both girls and boys. Girls and boys wear long or short sleeved light gray shirts with National badge and badge of the group. Pants and skirts are dark navy blue. They also carry world membership badge. On left arm the name of the province is white capital letters on red background written as a small arch (Ankara Scouts and Guides one of the few provinces who has also a nice province badge) and the rectangular number of troop also white capital letters on red. Proficiency badges are on right arm. Scarves are different colors. National staff and trainers and guides and scout who go another country wears national scarf which is red and has 3cm wide white edges. In camps girls mostly wear jeans too. We also use T-shirts in big camps with a logo on the theme of the camp . On our meetings mostly we use only scarf

OUR FOODThey love to eat Hamburgers I suppose so. But I don't know they prefer Mc Donald or Burger King. Some likes KFC too. Also pizza is a popular one. The most popular one is Pide it is Great Grand mother of Pizza. Pide shops are all around Turkey and number of them are about ten times more then the above mentioned imported outlets. Bureck is also a food they like (me too) (recipe is given below). A very special meet ball with thick slices of fried potato pieces and lamp on skew are the other popular ones. There are many types of kebabs and Queen of them is Doner kebab. In Europe they call it Gyro kebab. Most of our dishes arevegetable skews. One with green beans, one with potatoes, and others with other vegetables. Mothers love to cook vegetables with ground beef. Some love to eat them with white bread but most children hate vegetables. Natural yogurt is always on the table like milk on yours especially with stuffed grape leaves, zucchini, eggplants, cabbage leaves. When they stuffed with rice and ground beef and some spices. These stuffed food also made with rice spices and a special Pine nut with olive oil and eaten cold. This time noyogurt but you add some lemon juice on the top. We have our food very similar with Greece, Armenia and our Arab neighbors at the south. Even some dishes from Russia too. I love Russian salad. It is something like your potato salad. You will cut cups of boiled potatoes, preserved cucumbers, carrots and add baby peas. The cubes will be very small something like a big green pea. You will mix all of these with mayonnaiseand you fill your sandwiches with it. After Turkey begin good relation's with USA, people begin to call this salad as American Salad. But I never saw it, in some 16 states where I have been.

OUR FOOD "BÖREK"

BURECK (We write it BÖREK every body loves it. It is never tried in a camp but it is the best dish to make it before long trips to the camp to be eaten underway. Guides mostly eat it with fruit juice or ayran 2/3 naturalyogurt,1/3 water mix ) Recipe By :Bob b1744@aol.com (Revised)Serving Size : 8 Preparation Time :0:00Categories : Filo Ground BeefMain Dishes OnionsAmount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

1/2 pound margarine or butter1 pound pkg. Filo pastry -- thawed, if frozen1 1/2 pounds ground beef1 1/2 onion -- chopped1/4 teaspoon garlic salt1/4 teaspoon cuminsalt and pepper -- to tasteMelt margarine. In 13x9" baking pan, layer 6 Filo sheets with melted butter and flicks of water to make bottom crust. Brown beef and onion. Add seasonings. Drain well. Place layer of meat on crust. Repeat layering until all meat is used. Top with remaining layer of Filo, at least 4 sheets. Seal edges. Make a souse with margarine and small amount of yogurt mix. This makes borek soft. Bake for 1 hour at 350 F. or until brown and crusty. If not brown, turn on broiler briefly (very very light reddish brown). After finish cover with paper (something like newspaper for twenty minutes). Cut 2x2" pieces May be done with boiled vegetables, peas, potatoes and carrots in very small cubes or potato puree or white cheese and parsley I tried once withchampignons and cheddar cheese another time with fish fillet. Most children like white cheese and parsley rather than ground beef

OUR FOOD Menemen: A Camping Favorite.Scrambled egg with vegetablesA fast way to prepare a meal* Exported from MasterCook * and Revised to the taste of Turkish guides and scoutsRecipe By :Serving Size : 4 Preparation Time :0:15 Categories : Turkish Eggs BreakfastAmount Measure Ingredient -- Preparation Method

1 Onion4 Tomatoes4 Green hot peppers5 tb Butter8 EggsSaltPepper1 t Mild paprika powderChop the onion finely. Cut a cross in the top of the tomatoes and put them in hot water. Remove the skins. Cut the tomatoes into small pieces. Take out seeds. Wash the peppers and cut them into very small rings. Heat the butter in a big skillet. Sauté the onion until soft, (onion is not necessary). Children may not like it) then add peppers and tomatoes and fry for another 2 to 3 minutes. Beat the eggs with salt and pepper and paprika powder. (put the paprika powder after served to taste) Pour mixture over vegetables. Keepstirring with a fork until set. (Serve on nice fresh homemade or -of course- Turkish bread

OUR FOOD Apricot with Cream A real family favorite.

Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.02Title: KAYMAKLI KAYISI (CREAM-FILLED APRICOTS)Categories: Turkish Yield: 75 servings

1 lb Dried apricot halves2 c Sugar1 c Water1/2 Lemon1 c Whipping cream1 c Slivered almonds

2 T Slivered almondsPistachios or pecans or Walnut halves or hazelnuts

Soak apricots in warm water 2 hours to soften. Drain. Combine sugar, 1-cup water and lemon half. Boil until syrupy, 225-230'F. on candy thermometer. Add apricots and simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat and allow cooling. Whip cream until stiff. Fold 1-cup almonds into cream. Arrange apricot halves in single layer, inner side up. Dollop cream mixture onto 50 percent of apricot halves. Cover with other 50 percent, like sandwich. Sprinkle remaining almonds and pistachios over tops. Makes about 75, if small apricots are used.. Or you may stack them like in the photo

HIGHLIGHTS OF ACTIVITIES OF RECENT YEARS

An University Guide and Scout group is selling UNESCO Christmas cards and they are renovating rooms of a hospital in Ankara every year

Used prescription eye glass for lions is an activity made by several groups

A scout group planted some 1000 chestnut and walnut trees for a village school. Now village people is selling them on the nearest town and earning money for the school

A scout group made a blood donating campaign. They are asking people for blood donating with a questionnaire and putting these data on a municipal computer. When needed hospitals getting addresses and phone numbers of donors

Most of the provinces working with a NGO named TEMA for tree planting. They are also renovating parks Visiting orphan homes and elderly is another popular activity

Every year they are participating national level camps. Also makes their own local provincial camp and their own group or troop camps

Some 500,000 scouts and guides participated 41st JOTA all around the world. A Logo made by a girl Guide from Giresun selected for 42.JOTA . Scouts are active on Clean up the World event which is always supported by United Nations Environmental Program and organized by Australians. We had a Thanks letter after our activities in 1999. In some cities it is a city wide festival now

. WOSM organized a Peace cruise on eastern Mediterranean with representatives of youth organizations in Mediterranean. It was a success. After 1974 for the first time a ship left south Cyprus and Entered to

Antalya. Istanbul Peace event organized by Turkish Scouts and Guides and participants of Peace Cruise

Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey Awarded with WAGGGS-UNHCR award

Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey Awarded with WOSM-UNHCR award Turkey is the one of the 3 countries avarded by both organizations. The others are Netherlands and France

Promise

Everybody who becomes a member of the Scouting and Guiding Association takes the promise written below:

I honorably promise for discharging my duties to God and my country; obey the Scouting Promise and Law; always help others and do whatever I can, for being physically and mentally healthy and morally honest.

Guide and Scout Law  

The Guide and Scout Law of the Scouting and Guiding Federation of Turkey is stated below:

A Guide/Scout is true to his own word. He puts his honor and self-respect above everything.

1. A Guide/Scout is loyal to his country, nation, family and scoutmasters. 2. A Guide/Scout helps and be useful to others. 3. A Guide/Scout is the friend of everybody and the brother/sister of every scout. 4. A Guide/Scout is respectful towards everybody. 5. A Guide/Scout likes plants and animals. 6. A Guide/Scout listens to his/her adults and likes and protects his/her youngs. 7. A Guide/Scout is courageous and lovely and friendly under every condition. 8. A Guide/Scout is economical. 9. A Scout is clear and honest in his/her ideas, sayings and attitudes.

Promise of Brownie scout or Cub Scout

Cubs (Brownie) take the promise written below:

I honorably promise for discharging my duties to God and my country, obey the Brownie (Cub) Promise and Law; always help others and do whatever I can, for being physically and mentally healthy and morally honest.Law of Brownie/Cub

The law of Cub (Brownie) is written below:

1. A Brownie/Cub goes on scouts' way and everyday makes a favor.

2. A Brownie/Cub is hardworking

Scouting Motto

Scouting paroles (mottos) are defined according to the scouting levels:

Cub Motto: A Cub is hardworking.

Scout Motto: A Scout is already ready.

Rover Scout Motto: An adult Scout serves to its society.

Law: Law is a word pronounced by Atatürk that fits to the meaning of the word "principle". Since then, it has been used by scouts permanently. It is not related with the word "custom".

MESSENGERS OF PEACE

This is the Main initiative of WOSM .We are presenting our work on www.scout.work where you can find many activities from all countries

Activitiea feom Turkey were listed onhttp://www.scout.org/user/137

Thinking Day presentation China

1 December Aids Campaign

İnternational peace day Peace dove

International peace day Peace dove