Bengisu Colak

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Core Participants
Core Participants
Bengisu Çolak
Role(s) SDDP ΜΕΝΑ Core Participant
Co-Lab(s) Nicosia, 14-19 May, 2017
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Bengisu Çolak is a core participant of the Middle East and North African (MENA) Initiative.

Her Peer Empowerment and Support Mentors is Teresa Tourvas.


Bengisu Çolak joined excavation twice at Metropolis Ancient City in Torbalı/İzmir. She made a drawing from ceramic. It was about the Greek period. She joined to the international building organization in Germany. She experienced an ecological life and they built some owen and little house with her colleagues. It was an amazing experience for her because she had a lot of friends from different countries. she still have contact with them. Some of those friends visited her in Turkey.

Now she is graduate student of archeology department and she is doing an internship at non-profit organization. Her internship is about refugees. The NGO is called Association for Solidarity with Asylum Seekers and Migrants.



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  1. Müge Ayman
  2. Merve İnaç
  3. Hazal Ocak
  4. Esma Bulut
  5. Enrique Pelaz Curieses
  6. Ayşe Kavas
  7. Heval Bozbay
  8. Adem Üstündağ