Dear Friends,

i am resending the previouse correspondence as new people have been added to
the group and need to be brought up to date (just read down):

Tamahine Alemdar wrote:

>Dear friends,
>
>i hope that now the majority of people i know who are interested in this
>subject have registered to the group, so id like to invite you all to a
>meeting to begin activley campaigning for natural birth in Turkey. As some
>of the key women are currently working in istanbul with woman and birth the
>meeting should be held in istanbul for all to be able to attend.
>
>Julia has kindly offered her home as a meeting point, she will get back to
>us with her address details nearer the time.
>
>i feel that its important that Julia and her group, and Feride and her
>group can all be present and also Oya who is a journalist and can help us
>greatly with media issues an also Gamze a child Dr. i know who is also
>studying homeopathy, as i feel she could give us important information. And
>of course anyone else who would like to come.
>
>i know it can take alot to get everyone to together at the same time so
>just throwing a ball in the park to begin - i suggest January sometime
>(after the holiday season has settled down) and people have some time to
>plan. How does that sound? Anybody not here then? and what day should it be
>on? im not familiar with everyones work arrangments.
>
>We can plan a meeting agender in advance - ideas that come to mind are:
>
>- what is natural birth?
>- what is the situation in Turkey at present
>- how to obtain statistics to compare with European models
>- campaign plan, including media
>- connecting with other groups - World Health Organisation, Active Birth
>Center
>- education reform - both woman and dr. s
>- findižng a dr willing to work naturally
>- material translation into Turkish
>
>Please let me know if there is anything else.
>
>Warm regards and i look forward to meeting everyone soon,
>
>Tamahine


Hi, this is Julia writing. Thanks Tamahine for getting the ball
rolling! Mid January works well for me for the time being. I would
personally suggest a weekend meeting time, as some people are coming
from a distance, although I dont know everyone's work schedules. We may
also want to have 2 consecutive days together to get to know eachother
and really set the groundwork for what we want to accomplish. My
schedule is pretty flexible, just Thursdays are generally not good.
I'll just wait to hear back from everyone else re their schedules and
then we can set a date and I'll send directions.

I think Tamahine's agenda looks like a good starting point, and will
probably turn out to be quite a lot for one meeting. There are a lot of
issues at work there!

Looking forward to meeting you all!
Blessings,
Julia

Thats great, so we just wait to hear from everybody when they can make it.
Something else has come to light. Some tv guys from TRT came to 'us'
(bugday) yesterday to make a small programme about volunteering (tatuta) so
i also had a chance to talk to them about our subject and get sożme advice.
Firstly they said that the media is starting to get interested in this
subject so they will forward on our details to these people. They said that
newspapers would be the best to start with - printing womens stories (and
this is what they did in Poland to begin) and then they suggested that we
launch a Press Release. We need a group of you proffessionals to present and
then answer questions. Victor said that Bugday would certainly support and
help us to organise this as they have experience in this kind of thing. The
tv guys were very sympathetic as one of thier wives also had an unwanted
c-section.

Personally i would like to make a documentary of a womans story with hidden
cameras to see how many different dr s give different reason s to
operate......

Hope to hear from you soon,

T x

hi all,

since i can t make it to Istanbul because i am in Bangladesh, I can only
offer to press my ex-boyfriend,who edits a lifestyle magazine in Istanbul, i
am quite sure he would print your story, or an article about natural birth,
if you are interested. Here in Bangladesh also all doctors try to force
women to get a cesarian, middle-class of course. in the villages it s still
the old thing, thanks to public underserving, there are no doctors. But
lately i even discovered a donor foundation whose founder is a doctor and he
promotes "safe motherhood" for third world countries, which means cesarian
instead of natutal birth. What a sad story.
I wish you all the best, and keep my fingers crossed for you guys,

andrea

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