BAKU, Azerbaijan, October 21. The International Awareness Summit, organised for the second time this year by the women's structure of the Turkish business organisation MUSIAD, focused on human values, TurkicWorld reports.
The topics discussed at the summit in Istanbul included women's initiative, human rights, women in business and technological transformation.
The event opened with the piano composition "A Child Fell", composed in memory of the women, children and journalists killed in Palestine.
The piece composed by musician Hicret Nida Gulluoglu was received with great interest by the guests.
At the event, the names of the women and children killed in Gaza were also left on each seat. The summit reminded that deaths are not just numbers and called on the world to realise what happened.
Speaking at the event organised by MUSIAD, MUSIAD Women's Chairwoman Meryem Ilbahar Koca said in her statement that the world is going through a period in which human and moral values are destroyed.
Referring to issues such as violence against women, harassment and mobbing against women in the business world, Koca drew attention to the suffering in Palestine and Lebanon and criticised the hypocritical approaches of world public opinion.
Koca made the following statements in her speech: "Human rights are a framework that encompasses all of humanity, regardless of religion, language or race. However, when it comes to Palestine and Lebanon, a different attitude is taken towards the lives of women, children or journalists. We reject this approach that ignores human values."
Canadian writer Jenny Molendyk Divleli, who took the stage at the event, also referred to Gaza in her speech.
Divleli's speech, entitled The Spirit of the Times, analysed the tragedy in Gaza and the effects of these events today, and was followed with interest by the participants.
