To all  teachers and students who made this project possible, thank you!

Hello, I'm Barış from Turkiye. We are 5 friends met at the ETwining project at our schools, me, Barış from Turkiye, Arina from Romania, Paz from Portugal, Pace from Italy and Eirini from Greece. We will meet at a youth camp in Greece. We are so excited because Greece is the cradle of democracy.

Ağcagüney Secondary School

As a Turkish boy, I feel myself lucky to live in a democratic country like my friends because Turkey hosted many civilizations in ancient times and that's because we are tolerant enough for different cultures and also different ideas. Thanks to our great leader Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, we have lots of rights since 1923, when Turkish Republic was founded and both women and men had equal rights.

                           Yunus Emre Secondary School/HATAY/TÜRKİYE

BARBAROS KUTLUTAŞ SECONDARY SCHOOL

Pace decided to talk his friends about Italian democracy. He pointed out that Italy is widely considered a free country and a liberal democracy. Elections are free and fair while the government generally respects political rights and civil liberties. He said that Italy is a republic. In a referendum in 1946, Italians decided to change the system of government from a monarchy to a republic due to the monarchy's support for fascism.

IC Cesa "F. Bagno"

Secondary school -Italy  Antonia F. Saluzzi

Hi my friends, this is the symbol 

of the Italian State.

The olive tree is the symbol of peace; 

the oak, of vigor; the wheel, of work and progress. Italy, depicted by the star, is reborn to its new destiny in industrious peace and fruitful activities.

 Arina said was  from Romania. Democracy in her country is of recent date. They have democracy after the Revolution of 1989. Now they have a president elected for 5 years and a Parliament that they elect every 4 years. They have a lot to learn about democracy but the important thing is that they learn and  want to live in a country that takes their opinions into account. Long live democracy!

Târgoviște Special Secondary School, Romania

 AĞCAGÜNEY İMAM HATİP SECONDARY SCHOOL

Baris met Paz from Damaia, Portugal. Paz told him what is her experience with Democracy in her country:

"We celebrate this year the 50 years of Democracy in our country.

Everyone has the same rights, men, women, children. 

We have public school, hospitals, we can study, work, give our opinion and choose our politics by free vote. In our school the classes have girls and boys from different nationalities and religions, we choose our class representant and vote for the Student Association. Our Education Ministry give us the possibilitie of spend 500euros to present a proposition that is voted by all students to improve our school.

Democracy is very important and we should care it!"

5ºF Agrupamento de Escolas da DAMAIA - PORTUGAL

After doing the graffiti study, we decided to go to a village in Athens with the permission of our camp president. When we came to the village, we saw a school and entered the school. We met the school teacher. We introduced ourselves. The teacher was very pleased to meet us.

       Ataköy Şehit Selim Akan Secondary School, Türkiye

 In the afternoon, Eirini wanted to show her friends the Acropolis.

Athens is the city that gave birth to democracy, and the Parthenon is its most glorious creation. But democracy in my country, Greece, has been threatened many times. 

 1st Primary School of Chios,class1-Katerina Svinou

Here is the Polytechnic. 50 years ago, students rose against the military dictatorship. Their struggle involved all the people. And although the uprising ended in bloodshed, the students managed to restore democracy in Greece. The Polytechnic students' revolt for democracy should be a model of strength for all of us, because with our struggle we can change the world!

1st Primary School of Chios, class 2-Maria Kontogianni

The children continued their walk...

Paz mentioned that 50 years ago, in Portugal, we finally had a Democracy in our country too, ending decades of dictatorship. In Portugal, it was a peaceful revolution made by the military.

Despite being an independent country since 1143, recognised by the Pope in 1147, Portugal has only had a democracy for the past 50 years after 60 years of dictatorship and centuries of monarchy. Paz is so happy because she can vote, go to the university, be independent and free thanks to the carnation revolution.

          8A -Agrupamento de Escolas da Damaia     

          PORTUGAL

After every student talked about their countries' democracy way, all students in the camp understood that each country has its own unique democracy, shaped by its history ,culture, and form of government.  The representative of various democratic countries made students feel happy and they learned many things from each other.

TOKI MUSTAFA KUTLU İMAM HATİP SECONDARY SCHOOL

When the camp is over, we promised each other to keep in touch all the time. We turned back to our countries with lots of new information about democracy and lots of new memories..

Scoala Gimnaziala nr. 1 Saveni, Iulia Strambu

We talked our friends in our country when we arrived and We told everything we had exprienced. As a result not only we had lots of new information also our friends in school learnt about democracy.

 Bilsem Dörtyol Hatay Türkiye / Erdem YILDIZ