An outstanding community woman, a designer who succeeded as a businesswoman with her own project, skilled in cooking, and has Arab and Turkish cultures, striving through social media platforms to bring people together.

She is Dima Aslan, 34, a Turkish born in Damascus. She settled in Turkey in 2014, after touring several countries to establish her business.

Dima Aslan seeks, through communication platforms, to bring people closer to cooking (Anatolia)

home diary

Aslan started out as fashion design, and launched her brand "Dado Style".

Despite her preoccupation and success, her fashion show - through her account on the "Instagram" platform, which is followed by nearly 800,000 people and published her diaries at home - moved her to fame.

It seeks - through Turkish cooking that it offers in Arabic, and Arab dishes that it cooks in Turkish - to transmit the two cultures to the two societies, and it also works to talk about similar customs and traditions.

Aslan always had in mind that Arabs and Turks shared history and lived under one state for a long time, which made them similar in customs and traditions.

Aslan in her kitchen makes Turkish coffee (Anatolia)

Origin and idea

Aslan tells Anadolu Agency, her life and success story, saying, "I am a Turkish woman, born in Damascus, originally from the city of Iskenderun in the Hatay state (southern Turkey). I was raised in Damascus, because my grandfather at the end of the fifties moved and traveled to Syria by virtue of his work."

She added, "Despite our living there, we were not cut off from our people in Turkey, and I was raised in a house that preserved Turkish customs, origins and language. I also learned many beautiful things in the country in which Syria was my second country, including the Arabic language, customs and traditions."

And she continued, "Then we returned and settled in Turkey years ago, and I thought through social media platforms, trying to prove that a woman is a successful person in society, work and home, and in taking care of herself, and she can appear in her best appearance without neglecting the rest of the aspects."

She continued, "When I found myself having succeeded at work and at home, and succeeded as a skilled cook, I loved to share my diary at first with my acquaintances and those around me, and later I saw great acceptance from everyone who began to follow my diary, and I continued in this way."

Aslan, born in Damascus, landed in Turkey and settled there in 2014 (Anatolia)

merging cultures

Aslan talked about the content and its goals by saying, "My idea was also to merge the Arab and Turkish cultures, between their customs and cultures, which are very similar, but slightly different in the branches, and I felt that there was success and acceptance, so I completed it."

And she added, "I did not face any difficulties, but rather faced acceptance. The only difficulty is that I feel that my day is not enough for me and that I am able to provide more things, but in the next stage there will be greater organization."

And she added, "My choice of content is a basic thing that I was raised on. In history, we were brought up under the shadow of the Ottoman Empire, and we all had the same customs and traditions, but they differed in branches."

She added, "The second thing that unites us is that the majority are Muslims and we have been brought up on Islamic origins, and therefore I feel our great affinity. The content that I am submitting, if it is in Turkish, is accepted by the Arabs, and if it is in Arabic, it finds the same thing from the Turks, and I reached a point where I had to translate every video I publish, because the other party He wants to follow him.


Interact with recipes

Regarding the interaction she received, she said, "My husband and my family help me and have been supportive of me from the beginning, and when I film I have to speak in both languages ​​and every video I publish I try to translate and write it in the other language."

And she added, "I noticed that there are those who find it difficult to Arabic from the Turks or the Turkish from the Arabs, and when they found a merger of the language with me, they liked it, so they eased the language and loved this quick merger, which is what people loved and continued to follow me."

And she continued, "The interaction was very beautiful because many of the recipes that I publish, and many of the followers make them and send them to me, which receives a beautiful reaction from me, and even a recipe I made, which is the Iraqi value, met with great resonance from the Turks."

And she added, "I made the video in Turkish on Ashura. I found Turkish cooking pages that I published and liked the idea and how to transmit culture, and the comments I liked, and thanks to the acceptance that I found, I intend to complete the work in the same context."

common habits

And about the secret of her success, she stated that the two peoples are close, "Language is the difference, but in reality, customs and traditions are close, and therefore they were able to live with each other, and since I was raised in the two cultures, what I publish is an attempt to integrate more."

She added, "Although I am Turkish, I have preserved the Arabic language, and the Turks also wonder how, despite my life in Syria, I have preserved Turkish, so when they see me they realize the ease of merging the two languages."

fashion

Regarding her success story in fashion, she said, "My project started from scratch when I came to Istanbul and my main work was design and fashion, as I started getting to know the market."

She added, "I started my project and my idea was that the evening dress is always a problem for women in general during occasions, and the idea was to give good quality at a reasonable price to get women out of this crisis, when their budget is limited."

She pointed out that "at the same time, with designs, there was something that satisfies all tastes, and there was acceptance by people, as the idea was to export and show how Turkey produces beautiful products at reasonable prices, and it has succeeded in exporting."

Aslan has Arab and Turkish cultures and seeks through communication platforms to bring peoples closer (Anatolia)

And she added, "As a businesswoman, I got to know many people who were asking and asking, which led to the idea of ​​collectively answering them instead of individually, and I publish to them what I know so that everyone can benefit."

And she continued, "It was the fashion work that led me to use social media platforms, and with the publication of my diaries and cooking after returning from work, I found great acceptance."

The Turkish lady said, "My message is: In the end, we are an Islamic nation close to each other, so no one takes into account that he is from any country, and that it is possible to integrate with others."

And she concluded by saying, “Every individual must treat the other according to what he finds of him and his nature, and it is wrong to generalize in the event of an individual offending, there is good and bad, and giving an opportunity for closeness, love and harmony will lead to a better world, and problems will not lead to any result, which is what I like to show. In life, this is the positive.