1. AUTUMN 2012
LYNC NEWSLETTER
LYNC LAUNCHES 2013 ACTION-PLAN !
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DIRECTLY FROM SOUTH-CAUCASUS !
In November
2012 LYNC held
its special meeting
in Bakuriani,
Georgia. Read in
our newsletter why
this meeting was
and who where
our guests on this
meeting! LYNC is
celebrating its 1
year old !!!
SPECIAL PAGE INSIDE: LYNC IS 1 YEAR OLD!
younger then 22, single or in a way WAWATALA, which combined in
400 days of LYNC: fact two different parts of the
relationship, those who have
Caucasian youth shaping been in Germany and those who discussion (WWW and TALA, i.e.
the future. have not). New participants and “What Went Well” and “To Take A
old members of LYNC were Look At”). The participants were
We are glad to share with you our sharing their thoughts about divided into three local groups and
report on the meeting held by LYNC LYNC activities during that one started working on the estimation of
team and newcomers in Bakuriani year of the experience and future their own work and the job done on
November 2012 with guidance of JULIs plans. Experienced members international level. The presentations
and Friedrich Naumann Foundation. told the story of LYNC, how it of the local LYNC teams on this issue
was founded, new participants were needed for other
had the chance to share their participants to 4ind out
T h e 1 6 t h o f 4irst impression about the what were the actual
November 2012 community and how they learnt p ro b l e m s i n o t h e r
was the 4irst day about it, which seminars they countries and what
of the seminar on p a r t i c i p a t e d i n . H r a c h w e r e t h e m a i n
“LYNC‐Caucasian Ghambaryan took them for a achievements.
Youth Shaping the Future”. The short, guided tour through the
LYNC history and later the LYNC Presentation from Georgia
introduction session was very
interesting because of the new format team answered the questions of Georgian team mentioned the
of the energizer. People were being intrigued new participants. opportunity to represent LYNC in
divided into groups based on the Gummersbach, as a noticeable
questions that one of the trainers had After that the participants had a
session called in a very funny achievement. Georgian participants
prepared (elder or younger then 22, shared their thoughts on the need to
single or in a relationship, those who w a y W A W A T A L A , w h i c h
combined in fact two different PR LYNC in the Caucasus, spread
have been in Germany and those who information among more young
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2. LYNC engaged those who are more actively. Though this ‐ Activities of LYNC are not
new to the liberal ideology. That practice is not suitable to be perceived by FNF. Local events
might be done via seminars and realized between all three meet no interest from the side
other activities. LYNC should countries equally. o f t h e f o u n d a t i o n .
wo r k m o re a c t ive ly w i t h
political parties and provide Presentation from Armenia
them with new working tools.
The Armenian team of LYNC
Presentation from Azerbaijan mentioned that they meet
continuously in Yerevan. And
Azerbaijani team mentioned the fact that they are friends
their experience of organizing and keep in touch all the time
regional seminars in Baku, makes it easier to organize
Sumgait and other regions of something. The team just gets
A z e r b a i j a n . T h e y h a d a together and decides what to do
campaign called “Free Future” and shares the responsibilities.
t o s u p p o r t t h e p o l i t i c a l The central part that is
prisoners. They have also had Armenian team has also a good combining the three circles is
open discussion in Baku and on recruiting mechanism. It has important for FNF. Somehow
this “Mobilizing young people” i n d i v i d u a l p a r t n e r s a n d the bilateral parts also do. The
meeting representatives from organizations, NGOs, think‐tans local parts are ok, but not the
E u r o p e a n p a r l i a m e n t that it works with. Two months centre of attention. FNF is
participated. Azerbaijani team ago LYNC Arm organized an willing to support locally, but
t r i e s t o s e l e c t a c t i v e event with Woman Rights more important is the Centre. If
participants from local events Center which included also a LYNC gives FNF the Centre, it
and keep in continuous touch street action on gender issues. can easily require support on
with them. Their partners in the t h e l o c a l l e v e l . H r a c h
regions were Musavat party, six The Armenian members of Ghambaryan’s remarks was the
other liberal organizations in LYNC have opportunity to following: “If we do not have the
Azerbaijan. represent LYNC internationally circles, we will not have the
o n va r i o u s yo u t h e ve n t s overlapping part of the graphic.”
W e a k n e s s e s : L a c k o f ( G e r m a ny, U S A , M o l d ova ,
responsibility. Some members Hungary etc.). But Armenian FNF suggested doing two local
did not respect the main team has a problem to 4ind seminars in Azerbaijan and
working schedule of LYNC long‐term motivated people and Armenia in February before a
Azerbaijani team by organizing keep them being motivated all joint seminar in Georgia. LYNC
something different in the the time. can build the program of the
country. LYNC used to have seminar. The idea of Mrs Pamuk
skyp e ca ll s formerly and is to choose the same program
currently the team feels the lack for the local events. FNF would
o f t h o s e c a l l s w h i l e Then followed the input from
Yasemin Pamuk concerning look forward to the list of
c o m m u n i c a t i n g . T h e p o s s i b l e t o p i c s o f t h r e e
Azerbaijani and Armenian team cooperation between FNF and
LYNC with the idea on the countries and the concept of the
have a separate challenge to program. FNF is open for
think about concerning the further action plan. Later two
participants from each country proposals. Besides that, FNF
political relation between two would also need the list of
countries and LYNC has to think were invited to share the news
and last events of their countries LYNCers of three countries,
how to approach and react to which would also include the
this question. Possibly for to keep other participants up to
date about the collective situation names of those, who are ready
avoiding lack of information on to join the meetings at the
the local events and personal within the region. The discussion
intrigued the participants with the appointed time sharp.
opinions about them, it might
be good to appoint certain opportunity to ask question T h e 6 w o r k i n g g r o u p s
p e o p l e w h o c o u l d b e concerning this events directly to introduced the results of their
responsible for posting news those who come from the country work, moderated by the JuLis
from three countries in the of origin. members. With their help the
Facebook group. Mrs Pamuk referred to two groups concretized the main
m a j o r i s s u e s t h a t t h e tasks that LYNC faces in their
Azerbaijani participants had the special sphere and gave their
idea to invite Georgian LYNC participants mentioned:
suggestions on what could be
members in cooperation with ‐ Relation with FNF altogether, done next. The new participants
FNF to their local events, which being more independent from of the seminar were also
would keep the team in touch FNF; engaged into the working

3. groups, and this fact gave the chance to finally raise the member countries, but this time
them an opportunity to decide main challenges that LYNC faced the LYNC team was confident to
which group would they want to during one year. There were some discuss them tet-a-tet to prevent
continue working with. The issues mentioned that seemed to further possible conflicts during
experienced LYNC staff members be quite tough for the members to online cooperation.
and those who were engaged in approach because of the political
the works of LYNC formerly, had situation and relations between
Photo Story by Arman Karakhanyan
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4. Ha!y Bi"hday, LYNC!
Welcome to the LYNC Birthday Party Page!
Your Drink ! ;) Your Cake!
Yummy !
LYNC ;)
Party People !
Our DJ !

5. LYNC continues sharing its word and
ideas via Facebook posters
campaign !
What do we stand for?
As socially active, quite well educated,
professional youth with skills and deep
knowledge of liberalism and liberal
values, we mobilized our power for
activating regional cooperation based
on individual freedom, tolerance and
equal rights.
We strongly hope that our initiative
will greatly contribute to the peace
making process, dialogue of
civilizations, will have a great impact
on free market development, political
and social freedom establishment.
We will be very glad to share our ideas
and experience with increasing amount
of newly engaged, interested readers and
potential members of LYNC.
Share your idea with us and join our campaign !
We are looking forward to your liberal word !
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lync.youth@gmail.com
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