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GDD's First Year

16 July 2025 – 15 July 2026

July 2025

  1. We officially founded the Youth Diplomacy Association.

September 2025

  1. We launched the Bosphorus Diplomacy Forum.

    The forum was held on the Democracy and Freedoms Island, honoured by the attendance of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and attended by more than 200 young people. In its 6 committees, diplomatic topics were debated in Turkish, Arabic and English, and critical issues of the Cold War were examined from a present-day perspective.

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October 2025

  1. As part of the Bosphorus Diplomacy Forum, we donated the funds raised with the valued support of our participants to Gaza through the Turkish Red Crescent.

  2. We were in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, representing Türkiye at the 2nd TURKSOY Turkic World Youth Forum.

  3. We visited the Istanbul Provincial Mufti, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emrullah Tuncel, in his office.

November 2025

  1. We visited the Türkiye Youth NGOs Platform (TGSP).

  2. We attended the “ŞHL G20 Summit”, which we supported.

  3. We visited Mesut Albayrak, Member of the Board of Directors of Albayrak.

  4. We visited Mağsum Usta, President of Genç MÜSİAD.

December 2025

  1. We attended “TEKMUN’25”, which we supported.

  2. We visited Bilal Erdoğan, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the İlim Yayma Foundation.

January 2026

  1. We visited the Istanbul Provincial Representative Office of the Türkiye Youth Foundation.

  2. We visited the Green Crescent (Yeşilay).

  3. We attended “Kadıköy MUN’26”, which we supported.

  4. We visited Dr. İpek Coşkun Armağan, General Coordinator of Enstitü Sosyal.

February 2026

  1. We attended the Preparatory Conference of the International Mevlana Diplomacy Forum, held under the auspices of our Association.

  2. We visited Enes Efendioğlu, Director General of Youth Services at the Ministry of Youth and Sports, in his office.

  3. We visited Abdullah Eren, President of the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA), in his office.

  4. We visited İlhami Giray Şahin, Deputy Head of the Directorate of Communications of the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye, in his office.

  5. We attended the Iftar Programme with Young People and Athletes, honoured by the attendance of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

  6. We were guests at the headquarters of the Zero Waste Foundation and signed a protocol that adds value to the future.

March 2026

  1. We held the 1st Team Meeting of the Youth Diplomacy Association.

  2. We were in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, for the 13th Global Baku Forum, themed “Bridging Divides in a World in Transition”.

April 2026

  1. We visited Metin Özdemir, General Manager of Ziraat Katılım, in his office.

  2. Hosted by the Green Crescent (Yeşilay), we toured the Sepetçiler Pavilion and held our 2nd Team Meeting.

  3. At the invitation of Samed Ağırbaş, President of the Zero Waste Foundation and COP31 High-Level Climate Champion, we took part in critical meetings at the World Bank on the COP31 process.

  4. We attended the 5th Antalya Diplomacy Forum with our 11-member delegation.

  5. Our Vice President, Ömer Tayyip Erdoğan, attended the High-Level Climate Champions meeting organised by COP31 High-Level Climate Champion Samed Ağırbaş.

  6. We took part in the ECOSOC Youth Forum, representing Türkiye.

  7. As part of Climate Week, we took part in the UNFCCC Implementation Forum, held this year in South Korea.

  8. We were at the Konya International Mevlana Diplomacy Forum, held under the auspices of the Youth Diplomacy Association.

  9. We visited Dr. Murat Karakoyunlu, President of the Konya Plain Project Regional Development Administration, in his office.

May 2026

  1. We took part in the “MODEC’26” Programme, which we supported, with our Youth Diplomacy Association delegation.

  2. We took part in the Kayseri International Baktır Trade Forum, which we supported, with our Youth Diplomacy Association delegation.

June 2026

  1. We were at the Zero Waste Forum, held at Atatürk Airport, where we were among the partner organisations.

    We carried out a comprehensive programme in which young people took an active role in sustainability and climate action. We held a panel on “Youth-Led Zero Waste Action Platform”. We met President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Emine Erdoğan, as well as Minister of Youth and Sports Osman Aşkın Bak, UNICEF Türkiye Representative Paolo Marchi, COP31 High-Level Climate Youth Champion Sally Higgins, Veronica Nyhan Jones of the World Bank and Clemence Schmid of the World Economic Forum.

July 2026

  1. We visited Mahmut Mustafa Özdil, President of the Türkiye Maarif Foundation, in his office.

  2. We attended the NATO Leaders’ Summit.

  3. As the Board of Directors of the Youth Diplomacy Association, we made our first visit abroad to Baku, the capital of brotherly Azerbaijan.