News Center-Mersin Metropolitan Municipality continues to increase its contribution and support to the cultural and artistic life. The "Aratos Philosophy Symposium" was held for the first time in Tarsus with the joint work of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality and Aratos Philosophy Journal.
The symposium, which was organized with the main title of "War and Peace from the Window of Social Sciences and Philosophy", took place at Tarsus Boğaziçi University Gözekule Excavation Research Center. The symposium, in which the artist Ümit Aslan's painting exhibition "From Legend to Reality Sahmeran" was opened and the "Street Singers and Musicians Document" prepared by Journalist-Author Uğur Pişmanlık was presented, was implemented in 3 sessions.
Özdülger: “We want to live in peace”
Bengi İspir Özdülger, Coordinator of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Department of Culture and Social Affairs, who started her speech at the symposium by conveying the love and greetings of President Vahap Seçer, said, “Of course we do not want war, we want to live in peace. We; We want a society that thinks, questions, researches and wants to live it in peace at the point of freedom. This is our approach as Mersin Metropolitan Municipality. With the awareness of how valuable peace, equality and justice are, we want a society to live in peace in Mersin and in Tarsus," he said.
Regret: “We find it meaningful that local governments support such projects”
Journalist Uğur Pişmanlık, Founder of Aratos Philosophy Magazine, noted that they held the aforementioned symposium with the contribution and support of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality and said, “We are in an effort for enlightenment in Tarsus. The 19-year-old Aratos Magazine is trying to make this city a city of philosophy. This city has values in terms of archaeological, historical and local foods. This city has 39 philosophers who lived in ancient times. There are intellectuals who lived after the Republic. Therefore, we think that philosophy is what suits Tarsus and will give Tarsus an identity. In this context, we find it meaningful that local governments support the city's intellectuals and such projects.”
Aslan: “I told the stories of the Middle East geography”
Painter Ümit Aslan, who put the Sahmeran mythology on canvas, stated that he was happy to contribute to a philosophy symposium and said, “We opened the Sahmeran Exhibition as part of the festival before, but it is important for us that it is a part of a philosophy symposium. In this work, I told the problematic of women and the stories of the Middle East geography through Şahmeran.”
Academics contributed in different subjects
In the first session of the symposium, Prof. from Dokuz Eylül University Philosophy Department. Dr. Doğan Göçmen's "On War and Peace" and Associate Professor from Çukurova University Philosophy Group Education Department. Dr. Mustafa Günay, on the other hand, expressed their views on the subject of 'Is Peace Possible?'.
In the second part, Prof. from Çukurova University Philosophy Group Education Department. Dr. Cahit Aslan 'War and Anti-War Struggle: An Evaluation on Toffler', Mersin University Sociology Department Prof. Dr. Yaşar Erjem with 'War and Social Movements' and Dr. İsmail Sarp Aykurt made their presentations with the titles of 'War and Occupation Posters'.
In the last session of the symposium, which was followed with interest in the historical environment, Çukurova University State Conservatory Lecturer Fatma Güla Işık Tuğcu, Curzio Malaparte's 'Women Also Lost the War', Dr. Neciye Ayşim Parlakyıldız 'Experiment on Reading the Concepts of War and Peace through Literary Works', Volkan Koyutürk 'Representation and Reality in War Movies', İbrahim Çenet 'The Amanos Mountains and the Erana (Woman) Civilization Around It' and Ömer Öneren also 'The Human Being Reaching Space Da Reaching Himself' They contributed to the symposium by making speeches on the topics of 'He will succeed'.
Flowers and plaque presented
At the end of the sessions, flowers and plaques were presented to the names who attended the symposium as speakers. Mersin Metropolitan Municipality Reconstruction Inc. General Manager Ali Uyan, CHP Tarsus District President Ozan Varal and a wide participation of the symposium ended with a music concert.
