Turkey: New Practitioner Finds the Benefits from Practising Falun Gong Too Good to Keep to Herself

“I would like to introduce Falun Dafa to everyone so that they can be as fortunate as me!”

A female tailor in Ankara, Turkey became a Falun Gong practitioner only two months ago and feels the exercises are very good: “Falun Gong is just what I’ve been waiting for.” After three days of learning, her back and neck pain had gone. She went to spread the practice to her friends. Now she says Falun Gong brings people not only good health but also good fortune.

This lady has run her own business as a tailor for 16 years, but the sales were so low in winter that she could not afford to pay her rent. After she started to practise Falun Gong, business suddenly surged. She is sure that Falun Gong brought her good fortune.

Inspired by this lady, two of her female friends also learned the exercises and read the Falun Gong books. At present, they are running an exercise practice site and 8 or 9 people regularly go there to practise the Falun Gong exercises together. People who want to learn the practice can also do so for free at the exercise site. The tailor said, “I would like to introduce Falun Dafa to everyone so that they can be as fortunate as me!” Below are some short stories she wrote about promoting Falun Gong and exposing the persecution to the Turkish people.

A girl took pictures on her mobile phone to send to her mum	The sitting meditation exercise

Exercise demonstration	The girl sitting in the middle started practising Falun Gong one month ago and can meditate in the double-leg-crossing position for half an hour

I joined a class to learn painting and made many new friends. I talked to them, as well the teacher and the school manager, about what Falun Gong is and how the Chinese Communist leader Jiang Zemin brutally persecutes Falun Gong practitioners. All of them said, “The days of these devils will not last long. What is awaiting them must be punishment.” They also made an appointment with me to learn the five sets of exercises.

One day, I was on the bus and a woman sitting behind me gave me a big smile. She asked me, “Are you reading for school?” I answered, “My schooldays have gone. My daughter is in high school and I have retired!” She was confused, and thought I didn’t understand what she said. She asked again, “Say what? You have retired? You must be mistaken!” I said, “I am not young any more. I think you are younger than me, aren’t you?” She said, “I’m 35. And you?” I told her, “I’m 42.”

She found it hard to believe and gazed at me confusedly. I took out a magazine and showed it to her. I told her, “I look so young because I have practised such wonderful exercises.” I told her about the benefits I’ve received from practising Falun Dafa. I showed her some pictures of the torture methods used to force Falun Gong practitioners in China to renounce their beliefs and told her more about the persecution against Falun Gong. At that time many people crowded around to listen and see the pictures. Someone angrily said, “Jiang Zemin will be punished. He will face retribution for how he has persecuted good people.”

After talking about the persecution, this woman still gazed at my face and said, “You don’t look like a 42-year-old lady. I also want to learn to practise Falun Gong.” I gave her a flyer, with the address of a Falun Gong website on it. Then she told me her name and said she will come to learn to practise the five sets of exercises.

In Ankara, a large-scale exhibition took place from December the 15th to the 30th. Practitioners went there to raise awareness of the persecution by talking to people and distributing leaflets. There were many people there and the place was crowded. We got approval from the manager in advance, who said, “You needn’t spend money to rent a position. Just distribute leaflets as you like. You don’t want money from others and the practice benefits people’s health.”

One couple who learned the truth about the persecution went home and downloaded audio & video material by themselves so that they could learn the five sets of exercises. Now they are reading Zhuan Falun [the main text of Falun Gong] and other Falun Gong books. They firmly said, “People can’t work out what the Jiang group is doing. He is so wicked that he will suffer retribution and punishment for his crimes.”