Youth Of The Turkish Countries’ Diasporas Meet At Teknofest!

Presidency for Turks Abroad and Related Communities (YTB) brought together young people from the Turkish countries’ diasporas at TEKNOFEST. Young soon-to-be engineers who continued their education abroad and participated in TEKNOFEST with the support of YTB met with young people from the diasporas of the member states at the festival within the scope of the 2nd Diaspora Youth Forum of the Organization of Turkish States.

Since 2018, YTB has been carrying out various projects by ensuring that citizens living abroad take part in the TEKNOFEST Aviation, Space and Technology Festival by drawing attention to inter-diaspora cooperation at every opportunity, YTB broke new ground at TEKNOFEST this year. Within the scope of the 2nd Diaspora Youth Forum of the Organization of Turkish States, YTB brought together 25 young people from the diasporas of the Organization of Turkish States members with 30 young engineers from Turkish diaspora at TEKNOFEST held in Adana.

YTB ​​President Abdullah Eren also came together with the young people and made a speech.

 "THIS IS A GREAT TECHNOLOGY FESTIVAL"

Stating that, as YTB, we bring young people who were born and raised in Europe and especially those who are educated in the field of engineering to TEKNOFEST every year, Eren said that young people from the diaspora witnessed Türkiye's technology move. Stating that they do not distinguish between citizens living abroad and citizens living in Türkiye, Eren said, "We, as the diaspora institution of Türkiye that deals with its citizens living abroad are interested in people like you who were born and raised in Europe and especially those who are educated in the field of engineering." We bring together our young brothers and sisters, European Turks, here. We had previously organized this festival in our sister country Azerbaijan. Firstly, this technology festival is a tremendous festival being the world's largest space, aviation and technology festival. Here we see the point Türkiye has reached in high technology products, especially in the defense industry. "We see the planes, helicopters, rockets, missiles and high-tech products that many of our domestic companies have produced," he said.

 "WE WILL CONTINUE TO BRING OUR YOUTH TOGETHER WITH THEIR ROOTS"

Expressing that the whole world sees what Türkiye's young engineers can do, Eren said, “We want our people living abroad to share in this excitement. That's why, especially since the first TEKNOFEST, we have been bringing our young people abroad, our young brothers and sisters like you, to this area since 2018. This year, 30 young people were brought from our diaspora and 25 young people were brought from the diasporas of the member states and hosted in our country within the scope of the 2nd Diaspora Youth Forum of the Organization of Turkish States. "From now on, we will continue to bring our young people abroad together with their roots and helping them unite with each other in their homeland," he said.

Within the scope of the program, YTB President Eren visited the TEKNOFEST area with the young people.