YEREVAN, FEBRUARY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. DVV International organization (the Institute for International Cooperation of the German Adult Education Association) jointly with its Yerevan office has been implementing a project on Armenian-Turkish reconciliation since 1 August 2009. The project is financed by the German foreign ministry. The project's main partners are: Anadolu Kultur NGO engaged in culture and art (Turkey) and Hazarashen Armenian Center for Ethnological Studies. According to information submitted to NT, the project aims to build a bridge between Armenian and Turkish societies through education of adults, cultural exchange, and oral history. The oral history methodology has been recently used in Armenia and Turkey and is based on experience and recollections of ordinary people. The first working meeting of the project was held in Istanbul and then was followed by a student camp in Dilijan and a research done with the use of oral history methodology in Armenia and Turkey. Students of the two countries became acquainted with this methodology and gained experience for its use by conducting interviews with families living in Dilijan (Armenia). The course and research were led by Prof. Leyla Neyzi (Sabanci University in Istanbul) and Prof. Hranush Kharatian-Arakelian (the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography of the RA NAS). Since October 2009 the research groups have conducted interviews of people of different generations who live in various regions of Armenia and Turkey, as a result of which a book has been prepared for publication. The book contains stories about life based on people's recollections passed on from one generation to another. The authors of the project are convinced that by means of a joint presentation of stories of Armenians and Turks, a dialog on the past, present and future is initiated between the two societies and peoples. The project's materials are available at the official website of the project: www.learningtolisten.de.

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