Ankara, Turkey: Introducing Falun Dafa at a Shopping Center

(Minghui.org) Shoppers at an Ankara shopping mall were given the opportunity to learn Falun Dafa from practitioners in Turkey. The practitioners introduced the spiritual practice to the public on November 26, 2022. Many people were taught the Falun Dafa exercises at the Bilkent Center Mall in Bilkent, one of the most popular areas of Ankara.　

Falun Dafa practitioners introduce the exercises. 

A practitioner performs a lotus flower dance.

During the activity, the practitioners demonstrated the Falun Dafa exercises, and a practitioner performed a lotus flower dance. Their performance drew many people who showed interest in learning the exercises.

Banovsha and her daughter are taught the exercises. 

Banovsha and her daughter Zeynep, who are from Azerbaijan, watched the exercises for a long time. Banovsha visited the shopping center in a wheelchair. She had casts on her feet and couldn’t walk, but she still wanted to learn the Dafa exercises alongside her daughter.

“I feel an energy spiraling upwards above my head,” said Banovsha when she was learning the exercises. Her daughter Zeynep said that from time to time, some images appeared in her mind. “I felt like I was in a sea; everything was blue,” she said. They wished to participate in the group exercise and asked for information about the Dafa practice site.

When they learned about the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) persecution of Falun Gong (also called Falun Dafa) in China, they truly felt very sad. They said that the CCP persecuted everyone. 

Esra and her daughter

Esra and her daughter also learned the Falun Dafa exercises. Esra shared that when she was meditating she heard birdsong throughout the meditation. “For 15 seconds, my mind went blank. During those 15 seconds, I was walking through a forest, and I heard birds chirping from time to time.” Her daughter said she also heard birds chirping.

Ankara Falun Dafa practitioners also introduced the exercises in a well-known nursing home a week earlier.

Seniors in a nursing home learn the Falun Dafa exercises. 

Background: What Is Falun Dafa and Why is the CCP persecuting it?

Falun Dafa (also known as Falun Gong) was first introduced to the public by Mr. Li Hongzhi in Changchun, China, in 1992. The spiritual discipline is now practiced in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. Millions of people who have embraced the teachings, which are based on the principles of Truthfulness, Compassion, and Forbearance, and have learned the five exercises, have experienced improved health and well-being.

Jiang Zemin, former head of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), perceived the spiritual discipline’s growing popularity as a threat to the CCP’s atheistic ideology and on July 20, 1999, he issued an order to eradicate the practice.

Under Jiang’s personal direction, the CCP established the 610 Office, an extralegal security organization with the power to override the police and judicial systems and whose sole function is to carry out the persecution of Falun Dafa.

Minghui.org has confirmed the deaths of thousands of practitioners as a result of the persecution over the past 23 years. The actual number is believed to be much higher. Countless practitioners have been imprisoned and tortured for their faith.

There is concrete evidence that the CCP sanctions the harvesting of organs from detained practitioners, who are murdered to supply China’s organ transplant industry.