The Directorate of Communications will organise the exhibition "The Birth of a Friendship: Korea 70 Years Ago Through the Lens of a Turkish Photographer" in Seoul from 3 to 12 November 2026. Featuring photographs captured by the renowned photographer İzzet Keribar during his years in South Korea as a soldier and interpreter, the exhibition "The Birth of a Friendship: Korea 70 Years Ago Through the Lens of a Turkish Photographer" will be held from 3 to 12 November 2026 to contribute to the bilateral relations and collective memory of the two friendly countries, Türkiye and South Korea, through culture and art. As part of the event, the...
Announcements & Activities
As part of the "Turkic World Dialogue Forum", a panel titled "New Areas of Power: The Future of the Turkish Defence Industry" was held in Ankara, organised by the Directorate of Communications. At the panel discussion moderated by Prof. Nurşin Ateşoğlu Güney, a member of the Presidential Security and Foreign Policy Council, the emerging new security architecture within the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS) and across the Eurasian region was discussed. In her opening remarks, Prof. Güney said that a glance at the OTS Ankara Summit Declaration revealed just how important the issue of security...
A panel entitled “The Geopolitical Role of the Turkic World in an Age of Global Transformation” was held in Ankara as part of the Turkic World Dialogue Forum, organised by the Directorate of Communications. Speaking at the opening of the panel, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and AK Party Member of Parliament for Antalya, stated that the international system was undergoing a profound transformation, noting that countries’ standing in the international system was also determined by their diplomatic influence, economic resilience, positions within transport and energy networks, technological capabilities and capacity to develop reliable partnerships. ...
The panel entitled “From the Middle Corridor to a Shared Production Ecosystem: An Economic Model in the Turkic World” was held as part of the Turkic World Dialogue Forum organised by the Directorate of Communications. Speaking at the opening of the panel, Binali Yıldırım, Chairman of the Council of Elders of the Organisation of Turkic States (OTS), stated that the present and future of the Turkic world had been discussed at the 13th Summit of the Council of Heads of State of the OTS, held in Ankara, and that a highly significant declaration had been shared with...
Organised by the Directorate of Communications in Ankara, the panel titled “Culture and Art in the Turkic World: From Tradition to the Future” was held in Ankara as part of the “Turkic World Dialogue Forum". Speaking at the opening of the panel, the President of the Yunus Emre Institute (YEE), Prof. Selim Argun, stated that the Turkic world represented a vast historical heritage shaped over centuries within a shared sphere of unity, culture and civilisation, and that culture and art were the most important means of preserving and transmitting this heritage. Noting that culture and art were among the fundamental...
A panel entitled “Global Network, Shared Identity: The Turkic World Diaspora” was held as part of the Turkic World Dialogue Forum, organised by the Directorate of Communications. Abdülhadi Turus, President of the Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB), delivered the opening remarks at the panel in Ankara. Highlighting the significance of the Forum's theme, Turus said that the Turkic world diaspora should be approached from a perspective that extends beyond geographical boundaries. Noting that they were working to bring together people living in different countries who shared a common history and language, Turus said, “We are seeking...
The Directorate of Communications held a panel titled "In the Footsteps of Gaspıralı: Language, Culture and Memory in the Turkic World" as part of the "Turkic World Dialogue Forum." The panel, which opened with remarks by Secretary General of the International Organisation of Turkic Culture (TURKSOY), Sultan Raev, and was moderated by Chief Adviser to the Chairman of the Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) and President of the Ismail Gaspıralı Foreign Policy Institute, Prof. Esma Özdaşlı, was held at a hotel in Ankara. The panel featured Editor-in-Chief of the Azerbaijan-based Şark Newspaper, Akif Aşırlı; writer and journalist...
As part of the "Turkic World Dialogue Forum," organised by the Directorate of Communications, a roundtable meeting was held on the theme "A Shared Knowledge and Thought Ecosystem for the Turkic World." The roundtable meeting, held at a hotel in Ankara and moderated by Assoc. Prof. Murat Aslan, a faculty member at Hasan Kalyoncu University and researcher at SETA, brought together Prof. Ulvi Keser, a faculty member at International Final University; Dr Gabor Fodor, Head of the Ottoman Studies Group at the Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary; Dr Zhazira...
A roundtable discussion titled “Turkic World's Position in a Multipolar World Order” was held as part of the Turkic World Dialogue Forum, organised by the Directorate of Communications in Ankara. Speaking at the meeting, Haluk İpek, AK Party Member of Parliament for Amasya, Chairman of the Türkiye-Turkmenistan Interparliamentary Friendship Group, highlighted the importance of the Turkic world acting collectively on the international stage, noting that cooperation among parliamentarians had been strengthened by past experiences. Referring to the institutions established to develop relations between countries and their activities, İpek emphasised that the peoples of the Turkic states had established an...