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TABLE OFCONTENTS

-GETTING TO KNOW- Dear Diary-IELFUN-A MEMORABLE NIGHT-DIE KRISE-Nordkoreas In-nenpolitik

-Flotte Ergebnisse in der KVS-Die EK-Turkisch für Anfänger-Bosphorus-Tour-Ask her seyi affeder mi?-TATLI SERT

Yesterday, we had an interview with one of the lovely chairs of the General Assembly

Konstantina Abbas-Decka and the royal beauty Zeynep Ekinci from Counter Terrorism Com-mittee. We hope you will enjoy while reading it.

GETTING TOKNOW...

Can you briefly introduce yourself?Konstantina: I am Konstantina Abbas-Decka. I am half Greek half Palestinian. This is my fifth MUN conference, being the first one outside my country. I also attend EYP conferences.Zeynep: No, I am not capable of doing anything briefly. (We, as the press team, understood this fact when we saw her thirty-page-long study guide.

What were your expectations from IELMUN 2013 and how is it going so far?K: I want everyone to be satisfied with my ser-vices. I want to learn more about the Turkish culture. As a Palestinian, my committee topics mean a lot to me. Even though we didn’t get any Redbulls so far, the conference is really great.Z: This year I was expecting the conference to be more suppressive, but so far everything is going smoothly.

How was your

trip to Istanbul and did anything in-

teresting/awkward happen during your trip?

K: I spent twelve hours in a bus, with only twenty minutes of sleep. We were

laughing uncontrollably with my friends. The trip continued with the old ladies shushing and the

bus driver warning us to be silent.

What is your best MUN memory?K: It was definitely the closing ceremony of Thessaloni-ki-MUN. During the sessions, I had spent a wonderful time with my delegates. When I was on stage to take my diploma, my delegates started cheering and shouting for me. It was great.Z: MUNTR - IEL delegation’s room - Ata- Barlas (The chair denied to explain more.)

Would you rather have hiccups or feel like you need to sneeze but cannot for the rest of your life?K: I would rather have no life.Z: Both would make you look as if you have issues but I would rather have the second one because hiccups are worse.

EN

Dear Diary,

Yesterday, the first official sessions took place. The GA set

their agenda as the Treatment of POWs while the CSW chose to start off the debate with the issue of ‘Equal Treat-ment of Women in Under-developed and Developing Countries’. An hour later, the first coffee break took place in the school grounds where the Orga Team was caught planning to use the large size Coffee-mate Milk Powder in the next years’ conferences as well. The Moroccan delegate (Marcel Amaadacho) of the SR caught our attention with his traditional clothing and explained his possession of these garments with his fa-ther being a Moroccan. Also,

a large crowd was formed around the USA delegate of the CTC as he was claiming to prove that very tiny 10 TL’s were written on the 10 TL banknotes. He turned to be, in fact, right. The UN-CIO 1945 seems to be the most enthusiastic committee with delegates very willing to contribute, such as those of China, USA and Uruguay. They had chosen their first topic as the ‘Purposes and Principles of the UN Orga-nization’. At one point, the delegate of China was caught bursting out: ‘What is your description of equality?’ and the delegates of the US and Uruguay, who were seated right next to each other, en-gaged in heated arguments.

The delegate of USA, who ap-parently has a loud voice by nature, announced that IEL is the abbreviation of ‘Inter-national Enthusiastic League.’ This committee also had a moment of silence in respect to the death day of former US President Roosevelt. They also were very committed to acting according to “their time” and gave reactions such as ‘What is that?’ upon seeing a press member with a lap-top. The CTC was a bit on the calmer side as a committee; the chairs were encouraging the delegates to talk, ‘You voted for it! You should speak about it!’ they urged. The point at issue was ‘Post bin Laden Al Qaeda & Terrorism in Afghanistan & Pakistan.

As the day went on, two blocks formed in the CSW: one representing the pro-human rights, modern states and the other supporting the views of mostly Islamic countries, which stated that they did not really give much emphasis to women’s equality with men as they saw men as superior. This, as can be imagined, caused many arguments be-tween the two blocks. Then, a mock debate was decided to be held and suddenly it was gay rights and gay marriage that they were having disputes about. The sec-ond mock debate was about the use of alcohol and drugs such as mari-

juana. The delegate of Uruguay cried out: “Make mar-ijuana legal. When you’re on marijuana, you forget all of your problems.” And when he was told that mari-juana could be lethal, he protested: “You smoke, you die; you don’t smoke, you die.” In the afternoon, the chairs of the GA car-ried out an “energizing” operation which con-sisted of ‘the Banana Dance’ and ‘Singing in the Rain’ conducted by Chair Konstantina and a dance song lead by a guest (the CSW’s France delegate) following the coffee break. The ses-sions came to an end at

On Saturday, the first day of IELMUN, the school was almost empty, a few SEV-ERAL delegates were present and the

arrivals were of a slow pace. Upon finding this odd and disappointing, the Press Team decided to conduct an investigation regarding the where-abouts of the delegates. During their search, they stumbled upon the famous restaurant chain Subway and were shocked by what they saw inside. All of the missing delegates were seated on tables or stools, enjoying subs in their formal clothes. Others were in the line ordering food. After the delegate number in the shop had risen

to 50, the inevitable offer came from the delegate of Sri Lanka. “Why don’t we just hold the debates here?” he suggested and when his words were met with approval, all delegates settled to start lobbying. The agenda was also converted a bit and the first topic to be discussed was “The Issue of the Excessive Time it Takes for the Bread to be Ready for Serving”. The delegate of Myanmar, who has waited for his order for 25 minutes be-cause of this issue, held a passionate speech. The delegates will gather in Subway every morning at 10 a.m.

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A MEMORABLE NIGHT

Yesterday night, IEL-MUN 2013 had its first social event. It

was the one all the delegates, especially the ones who don’t live in Istanbul were waiting for: the Bosphorus boat trip. To be honest, the trip was wonderful, and the partici-pants who has not attended have the right to feel sad for themselves. Just before the event, the Orga and the Press Teams had very sad moments as a Public Relations member of IELMUN, Cem Vardar, will leave Istanbul in the 3rd of September and move to the United States. Orga Team made a video for him expressing how much they would miss him. All the members of the two teams gathered in a classroom,

pretending that they would talk about the first day of the conference. The Director General Furkan Şener told people that he was plan-ning to show a video about former MUN memories so that Cem wouldn’t guess the surprise. This video was so emotional that a lot of peo-ple understood how much Cem meant to them. After these sentimental moments, everyone went to the court-yard again in order to head to the school buses.All participants had to leave the school campus at 19:30. It took nearly half an hour to get to Kabatas. In the beginning, the participants gathered together and start-ed having their first drinks. After half an hour, nearly all the participants were en-

joying the music and were all showing their dancing skills. Sometime later even the boat started bouncing with the waves of Marma-ra and the rhythm of the wonderful music. Especially the German participants proved us that they know how to have fun since they impressed everyone with their wild dancing. Also for the more romantic people, there were beautiful views from the Bosphorus and the breath-taking Bogazici Bridge. As the Press Team, we can honestly say that this boat tour and the night as a whole was very memorable and it will stay in the memories of the participants forever.

Heute haben die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika erklärt, dass sie Teile ihrer Streitkräfte inner-halb zweier Tage in Syrien stationieren werden. Diese Truppen sollen die Rebellengruppen des Bürgerkrieges unterstützen. Die USA unterstellen dem Assad-Regime nun schon seit Wochen einen Giftgasangriff. Die Ankündigung, nun militärisch in Syrien einzugreifen, ist die letzte Eskalationsstufe dieses bisher schwelenden Konflikts. Die Positionen der Delegierten im Weltsi-cherheitsrat sind derzeit noch nicht vollständig klar. Es ist aber anzunehmen, dass die USA von Großbritannien und Frankreich unterstützt werden. China wird mit sehr hoher Wahrscheinlich-keit opponieren und blockieren, während Russland zwar von seinem Veto gegen einen Einsatz der Amerikaner Gebrauch machen könnte, trotzdem aber wenig Interesse daran haben wird, die Beziehungen zu den USA maßgeblich zu verschlechtern.

Beziehungen zwischen den USA und Syrien eskalieren

DE

Sicherheits-rat diskutiert Nordkoreas Innenpolitik

Unter der Überschrift „Rekapitulation der Maßnahmen gegen DVRK bezüglich der nordkoreanischen technologischen Entwick-lungen“ hat der Sicherheitsrat der Vereinten Nationen gestern Nordkoreas Innenpolitik im Hinblick auf humanitäre Fragestellungen diskutiert. Das Thema wurde zunächst in der Reihenfolge der Tagesordnungspunkte nach vorne geschoben, um vor dem Atom-programm des Iran Gegenstand der Verhan-dlungen zu sein. Das Vereinigte Königreich und die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika traten für eine forsche Haltung gegenüber der Demokratischen Volksrepublik (DVR) Korea ein, während Südkorea und China sich eher zurückhaltender positionierten. Insgesamt stieß das Thema allerdings auf große Konsensfähigkeit. Hieran konnte auch der Pressesprecher der nordkoreanischen Regierung, der als Gastredner geladen war,

nichts ändern. Folglich dauerte es im An-schluss an seine phrasendreschende und inhaltsarme Rede nicht lange, bis das Verein-igte Königreich ein Arbeitspapier einreichen konnte, das sogleich als Resolutionsentwurf diskutiert wurde. Obwohl sich eine Einigung zunächst rasch abzuzeichnen schien, dauerte die Diskussion um die Inhalte dieses Reso-lutionsentwurfes doch noch eine gute Weile. Dies war vor allem auf die Spitzfindigkeiten der Delegierten als auch auf ihre Detailfreude zurückzuführen. Beispielhaft hierfür war die Diskussion um das Wort „forcieren“, dessen sprachgeschichtlicher Herleitung die Delegi-erte Pakistans einen ganzen Redebeitrag wid-mete, um ihrer Abneigung gegen das Wort Ausdruck zu verleihen. Am Ende des ersten Tages stand der Sicherheitsrat also kurz vor seiner ersten erfolgreich verabschiedeten Res-olution zur Innenpolitik der DVR Nordkorea.

Am ersten Sitzungstag von IEL MUN wurde in der Kommission für

Verbrechensverhütung und Strafrechtspflege bereits engagi-ert über den ersten Tagesord-nungspunkt, Rekapitulation der Maßnahmen gegen Menschen-handel, debattiert. Die Delegi-erten sind gut vorbereitet und bringen sich aktiv mit in die Debatte ein. Sehr lobenswert ist die starke Beteiligung der Delegierten, die nicht muttersp-rachlich Deutsch sprechen. Die islamische Republik Iran sprach in seiner Rede an, dass sich die Länder bei diesem heiklen The-ma auch nicht nur um die Sta-aten mit schlechter wirtschaft-licher Lage befassen sollten, sondern auch Augenmerk auf

die Situation in Ländern mit einer stabilen Wirtschaft und einem geregelten Grundein-kommen haben sollten. Die Delegierten sprachen zudem an, dass es sich ganz klar um eine internationale Problema-tik handelt und, dass man schnellstmöglich konkrete Maßnahmen gegen den Men-schenhandel formulieren sollte um so effizient wie nur möglich dagegen vorzugehen. Seine Exzellenz der Untergen-eralsekretär hat um 12.30 Uhr eine Rede vor dem Gremium gehalten, die sie noch ein-mal zu einer Debatte über die Menschenwürde als höchstes Gut der Menschheit ermutigen sollte. Die Delegierten der KVS haben sich die Worte des Un-

tergeneralsekretärs zu Herzen genommen und haben über den zuletzt eingereichten Res-olutionsentwurf von Chile mit Spaß diskutiert. Der Tag endete mit etwaigeren Änderung-santrägen zu den operativen Absätzen dieses Resolution-sentwurfes. Die Delegierten sind sehr zuversichtlich, dass es am heutigen Tag zu einer Einigung bezüglich des ersten Diskussionsthemas kommt. Hoffen wir, dass die heutige Debatte ungestört von Skype oder Whats-App Nachrichten vorangetrieben wird und ein wenig Spannung beim Thema Persönliche und institutioneller Cybercrime als Bedrohung der internationalen Sicherheit aufkommt.

Flotte Ergebnisse in der KVS

Die Europäische Kommis-sion beschäftigte sich am ersten Sitzungstag mit den „Energiehandelsbeziehungen der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten mit der Russischen Förderation und anderen Nicht-EU-Mit-gliedsstaaten“. Die fossilen Brennstoffe, wie Erdöl, sind endlich, weshalb es neue Wege der Energiegewinnung geben muss. Einer dieser Wege sind die erneuerbaren Energien, wie Wind- oder Solarkraft, die zudem auch umweltfreundlicher sind. Des Weiteren würde mit den erneuerbaren Energien beispielsweise die Abhän-gigkeit von der Russischen Förderation sinken, da man

nicht mehr auf ihre Öl-Ex-porte angewiesen wäre. Der Delegierte der Russischen Förderation betonte in sein-er Gastrede, dass sein Land weiterhin Öl nach Europa exportieren wolle und noch Öl-Vorkommen für weitere 100 Jahre vermutet werden. Ein Manko der erneuerbar-en Energien sind jedoch die hohe finanzielle Belastung und die Tatsache, dass nicht jeder europäische Staat die notwendigen geografischen Gegebenheiten aufweisen kann. Durch diese Prob-lematiken müssen alle eu-ropäischen Staaten im Hin-blick auf die erneuerbaren Energien zusammenarbeiten,

so müssten zum Beispiel Länder, die viel Energie mit den neuen Techniken ge-winnen den Überschuss an andere Staaten verkaufen, sodass eine Energiever-sorgung aller europäischen Länder gewährleistet ist. Ein gutes Vorbild für den Einsatz von erneuerbaren Energien ist Dänemark, das schon heute unabhängig von fossi-len Rohstoffen ist und sogar selbst Energie exportiert.

Die Europäische Kommission

Türkisch für Anfänger

Guten Morgen – Günaydın Hallo – Merhaba Ja – Evet Nein – Hayır Danke – Teşekkürler Bitte - LütfenIch liebe Dich. – Seni seviyorum. Ich habe Hunger. – Acıktım.Ich habe Durst. – Susadım. Guten Abend – İyi akşamlar

Guten Tag – İyi günlerSchön - GüzelIch heiße ... – Benim adım ...Möchten Sie etwas trinken? – Bir şey içmek ister misiniz?Was bedeutet das auf Türkisch? – Bu Türkçe ne demek?Aus welchem Land kommst Du? – Hangi ülkeden geliyorsun?

Wie geht es Dir? – Nasılsın?Was möchtest Du? – Ne istersin?Was meinst Du dazu? – Ne demek istiyorsun?Wie bitte? –Efendim?

Bosphorus-Tour: Höhepunkt des zweiten Tages

Nach dem ersten Verhandlungstag kon-nten die Delegierten und das Organ-isationsteam rund vier Stunden auf

einem Rundfahrtsschiff die Skyline und das Ufer Istanbuls vom Wasser aus kennenlernen. Was wie ein Seniorenausflug klingt, war das genaue Gegenteil: Tanzen unter freiem Himmel, ein rauschend von Lachen und Erzählungen er-fülltes Deck und die eigene Schiffsbar machten den Abend unvergesslich. So konnte jeder den Abend nach seinem Gusto gestalten. Ob man lieber gemütlich einen Drink schlürfend Istan-buls Lichter vorbeiziehen sehen, sich auf dem berühmten Meeresarm zwischen Asien und Europa in Ekstase tanzen oder sich einfach gut unterhalten wollte, jeder kam auf seinen Ges-chmack. Egal, wofür man sich entschied: die erleuchtete Hagia Sophia, die illuminierte blaue Moschee sowie die Lichter der Uferpromenaden und Brücken waren stets in Sichtweite. Entspre-chend vergingen die Stunden dann auch wie im Flug, während die laue Sommernacht sich über Istanbul legte. Als das Schiff schließlich wieder am Ausgangspunkt der Fahrt angekommen war, war es rund 0:00 Uhr und der erste Tag von IEL-MUN 2013 zu einem erfolgreichen Abschluss gekommen.

Dün öğleden sonra saatler 4’ü gösterdiğinde, hava alıp kaf-alarını toparlamak için bahç-

eye akın eden delegeler ellerinde kahve bardakları ve bisküvilerle sohbet eder-lerken kapıdan kendilerine doğru gelen yüksek sesli kahkahalar dikkatlerini çekti. İngilizce bölümünün delegelerin-den birkaçı bizlere doğru gelerek ‘Neler kaçırdığınıza inanamayacaksınız!’ diye bağırdılar ve ardından şunları anlattılar:Okul kapısının hemen dışarısında motosikletten inen bir pizza teslim el-emanıyla karşılaşmışlar ve ona nasıl okula sipariş verebileceklerini sorduk-larında aldıkları cevap: ‘ Bir güvercin yakalıyorsun, alıyorsun kâğıdı eline, yazıyorsun ismini altında, bir de bur-cunu ekliyorsun. Güvercin bizi bu-luyor, güvercini salıyoruz takip edip adresinizi buluyoruz.’ olmuş. Ardından adam uzaklaşmış fakat delegeler oku-la dönerken o da çıkmakta olduğun-

dan yeniden kaçınılmaz bir karşılaşma yaşamışlar. Bunun üzerine teslim ele-manı delegelerden Berfin’e ‘Sen terazi misin?’ diye sormuş ve hayır cevabını alınca ‘Peki oğlak mısın?’ diye üstel-emiş. En sonunda Berfin eliyle balık işareti yapınca da bu burcun duygus-allığı hakkında yorum yapmış. Ardın-dan da eklemiş: ‘Bir şey diyeceğim. Aşk her şeyi affeder mi?’ Berfin’in yanıtıysa: ‘Affeder!’ olmuş. Bunun üzerine piz-zacı arkadaşımız yerinde zıplayıp dön-meye, ‘Affeder mi?!’ diye tekrarlamaya başlamış. Karşılaştığımızda hala şaşkınlıklarını atamamış olan katılımcı arkadaşlarımı-za bu ilginç anıyı bizimle paylaştıkları için teşekkür ediyoruz. Hepiniz için İELMUN 2013’ün yüzünüzü güldürecek anılarla dolu olmasını diliyoruz.

Ask her seyi affeder mi?

TR

TATLISERT

IELMUN 2013’ te oturumların ilk gününde Ekonomik ve Sosyal Konsey(EKOSOS)’de tartışılacak “Genetik biliminde gerçekleşen gelişmelerin bireyler üzerinde-

ki hukuki kısıtlamaları” konusuna hızlı bir giriş yapıldı. Fakat kısa bir süre sonra ana konu hakkındaki konuşma-lar üzerinden özel konulara geçiş yapıldı. Böylece EKOSOS’ta ortam yavaş yavaş ısınırken komiteye hararet-li tartışmalar hakim olmaya başladı. Oturuma ikinci bölümde katılan Greenpeace temsilcisi yaptığı sert ve alaycı konuşmada konseyin yalnızca gene-tik biliminin etiği hakkında konuşmakta olduğunu ifade etti, genetik biliminin uygulama kısmından hiç bahsedil-mediğini söyledi ve savlarını örneklerle açıkladı. Ardın-dan günümüzdeki hastalıkların bir çoğunun bozulmuş olan ekolojiden kaynaklanıyor olabileceğini iddia etti. Greenpeace olarak isteklerinin, genetik bilimi üzerine yapılan çalışmaların, çevreye zarar verilmeden yapılması olduğunu belirtti. Bunun dışında oturumlar, genetik bilimi hakkında geleceğe yönelik endişeler duyulduğunu da gösterdi. Örneğin, gelecekte genetik bilimi kullanılarak doğacak bebeğin kalıtsal özelliklerinin değiştirilmesinin, insan hak ve özgürlüklerine aykırı olduğu savunuldu. Bu konu üze-rine Japonya delegesi günün en çarpıcı sözlerinden birini sarf etti: “Devletler, kendi yurttaşlarının yanısıra henüz doğmamış bebeklerin de haklarını korumakla mükelleft-ir.” Oturumların üçüncü kısmında konseye katılan Hindis-tan ve Suudi Arabistan delegeleri arasında yaşanan tatlı sert atışmalar, bütün konseyi neşeli bir havaya soktu. İşte bu tatlı sert atışmalardan bir anekdot: Suudi Arabistan Delegesi oturuma katıldığında güneş gözlüğü takmaktadır. Kısa bir zaman sonra, Hindistan delegesi düzen talebinde bulunarak Suudi Arabistan delegesinden gözlüğünü çıkartmasını ister. Suudi Ara-bistan delegesinin cevabı pek de inanılacak gibi değildir: ”Körüm. Gözlüğü, kusurumu saklamak için takıyorum.” Oturumların dördüncü ve son kısmında ise delegeler, bir çözüm önerisi üretmek ve bir kararname yazmak üzer-ine yoğunlaştılar. Bu sebeple oturumun büyük bir kısmı görüşme aralarıyla geçti. Fakat oturumun sonunda, genel sekreter yardımcısı zaman yetersizliği sebebiyle çözümleri inceleyemedi ve konunun kapanması, bir sonraki sabaha kaldı. Şüphesiz ki günün en heyecanla beklenen olayı tekne ile boğaz turu ve yapılacak olan eğlenceydi. Saat sekiz su-larında başlayan tekne turunun hemen ardından kokteyl, daha sonra da hit müzikler eşliğinde muhteşem bir parti katılımcıları beklemekteydi. İELMUN 2013, geceyi parti-nin renkli ışıklarıyla aydınlattı.