Hatune Dogan

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Hatune Dogan (* 1970 in Midyat in Eastern Turkey) is a Syrian Orthodox nun and head of the aid organization Helping Hands . She is a member of the Syrian Orthodox monastery in Warburg .

Life

Hatune Dogan lived as a member of the persecuted minority of Syrian Orthodox Christians in eastern Turkey until she was 15 , then she and her family fled to Germany. At the age of 18 she entered the order of “St. Ephraim the Syrian ”with the mother house in Glane . Hatune Dogan completed her training as a community officer at the Catholic University of Applied Sciences in Mainz . From 1982 she worked in Syrian Orthodox communities in the Paderborn area . She taught religion and German. From 1992 she worked on a German- Aramaic dictionary, which was published in 1997.

Hatune Dogan is also involved in crisis regions. From 1991 to 1999 she worked with free groups. The cornerstone for a foundation was laid here. Since 1992, when she was in India for the first time, she has been collecting information there and taking care of the distribution of donations in kind and money. In 2003 she founded the Sister Hatune Foundation in India with the aim of helping people to help themselves. In 2006, she founded the Helping Hands for the Poor Association in Paderborn. In 2011, the Sister Hatune Foundation - Helping Hands for the Poor , was established and recognized by the Detmold district government as a non-profit foundation for promoting training on November 22, 2011.

The Sister Hatune Foundation - Helping Hands for the Poor , based in Warburg, pursues, according to its statutes, non-profit, benevolent and church-charitable purposes. These are given as follows:

  • Support and help for people persecuted because of their beliefs or political views.
  • Operation or establishment of training centers for girls and boys wherever the training and future of the next generation is at risk. This is especially true for school and educational institutions in the emerging countries and the underdeveloped countries, the so-called developing countries.
  • Establishment and operation of a women's community in a monastic community and
  • Training of staff at the foundation site

The foundation operates internationally. It has sections in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the USA. Organizational teams support the work directly on site. The foundation coordinates the work of over 5,000 volunteers in 37 countries worldwide. According to her own statements, she does not pursue any religious goals.

In addition to the construction of drinking water wells and house building projects for the homeless (approx. 500 annually each year), the foundation offers medical help (mobile clinics, leprosy aid) with more than 23,000 patients annually, help with education and vocational training (schools and institutes) - approx. 2,600 continuously Schoolchildren and over 1,000 completed vocational training courses, support for orphans (approx. 300 children), opportunities for self-help and financial support for the poor. Another focus of our work is aid in the event of natural disasters and for displaced people (currently mainly for the displaced Christians from Iraq).

Hatune Dogan also has connections to charities on the African continent. She is a member of the ecumenical Christian women's forum. She started her charity work by helping AIDS orphans in Africa (in Zimbabwe). In Germany, the foundation endeavors to create accommodation for refugees.

The main offices of the foundation are in Paderborn and in the state of Kerala in southern India. Sections have been set up in America, many European, African and Asian countries. These are divided into various working groups with special tasks.

Dogan writes that she received eighteen death threats in seven languages.

Political positions

Dogan gives lectures and interviews on the persecution of Christians, the humanitarian situation in some areas and political issues such as German refugee policy . She took part in the “ Women's March ” initiated by Leyla Bilge and organized by the right-wing populist AfD , a demonstration against the refugee policy of the federal government and against violence against women by immigrants, and gave an approx. 20-minute speech on the official stage.

In a video interview with the Islamic critic Imad Karim , she complained about the German refugee policy "at the top". Germany let "everyone" into the country uncontrolled. An estimated 80 percent of the people with refugee status in Germany are "smart-eared" and have exploited the system and are not refugees at all. She calls for stricter border controls.

In a lecture for the AfD on the war in Syria, she claims that the violence of ISIS comes from Islam . There is no difference. The war in Syria is not only about oil, but also about the implementation of the Islamic orders from the Koran.

The taz , which tends to be left-wing, criticized Dogan for being “a Christian-Orthodox fundamentalist”, “who paints a cultural war between Islam and Christianity in the brightest colors in an almost endless tirade”. Dogan describes himself as politically neutral.

Hatune Dogan described the persecution and discrimination of Syrian Orthodox Christians in Turkey in a hearing of the Bundestag Human Rights Committee in November 2018.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sister Hatune from Zaz, interview in Das Erste on April 21, 2015, 8.45 p.m.
  2. ↑ German nun in the IS war zone: "I have no more tears" , spiegel.de, article from November 1, 2014.
  3. ^ Biography of Sister Hatune ( Memento from February 16, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ It awakens charity . Sister Hatune Dogan receives the Federal Republic of Germany's Medal of Merit. In: Westfalen-Blatt . Department: Paderborn, August 27, 2010.
  5. ↑ Hatune Dogan: I believe in the deed . Brunnen-Verlag, Giessen 2015, ISBN 978-3-7655-4258-9 , p. 12 ff .
  6. ^ Foundation details: Sister Hatune Foundation. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia , accessed on August 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ A nun fights for victims of terrorism . In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 46 , November 16, 2014, p. NRW2 . , Online. Retrieved April 27, 2016 .
  8. ↑ The Hatune Foundation - Helping hands for the poor - About us! In: Hatune Foundation International German . August 3, 2015 ( hatunefoundation.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  9. ^ Sister Hatune: Government failed in the refugee crisis , kath.net, article from September 22, 2016.
  10. ↑ drinking water . In: Hatune Foundation International German . August 7, 2015 ( hatunefoundation.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  11. ↑ Building a house . In: Hatune Foundation International German . September 9, 2016 ( hatunefoundation.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  12. ↑ Medical help . In: Hatune Foundation International German . August 7, 2015 ( hatunefoundation.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  13. ↑ Education For All . In: Hatune Foundation International German . August 7, 2015 ( hatunefoundation.com [accessed February 10, 2017]).
  14. ↑ I want to build bridges. Sister Hatune presents her plans for refugee accommodation at an open house. , westfalen-blatt.de, article from December 8, 2015.
  15. ↑ Roswitha Klaiber: Telling About Faith . New series of events by the Eastern Black Forest pastoral care unit with well-known guests. In: Badische Zeitung . Category: Titisee-Neustadt, September 7, 2011, p. 29 .
  16. ↑ Daniel Kretschmar: AfD gendert women demo. In: taz . June 10, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  17. ^ AfD organizes second "women's march". RBB , June 18, 2018, accessed August 19, 2018 .
  18. ↑ Imad Karim: Imad Karim in an interview with sister Hatune Dogan about Islamization and refugee policy. In: YouTube video. April 13, 2017. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  19. ^ Lecture by Sister Hatune in Aachen. In: www.hatunefoundation.de . February 20, 2018, accessed August 4, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Daniel Kretschmar: AfD gendert women demo. In: taz . June 10, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  21. ↑ Alexander Lange: Sister Hatune returned from Syria, Iraq and Turkey. In: New Westphalian . April 7, 2018. Retrieved August 19, 2018 .
  22. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . In: Federal Gazette . Official part. October 1, 2010.
  23. ↑ Till-Reimer Stoldt: Hatune Dogan . In the fight for persecuted Christians. In: Welt am Sonntag . No. 35 . Category: NRW in person, August 29, 2010, p. NRW3 . , Online. Retrieved August 29, 2010 .
  24. ↑ Foundation honors Syrian Orthodox sister Hatune Dogan for worldwide commitment to persecuted Christians ( memento from October 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), ead.de, article from August 19, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Dogan, Hatune
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish monastery sister and head of the aid organization helping hands
DATE OF BIRTH 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Midyat