Our Türkiye Europe Future Forum turns 10! 🎉
A 300+ strong community shaped by connection, curiosity & cross-border cooperation. Smart, open-minded — and still grounded, warm & fun. Here’s to a decade of TEFF — and to all that’s still ahead. 🌍

“We’re living in a moment where the Atlantic seems to have grown bigger, but the Mediterranean smaller".

Rapid shifts in the global order set the stage for our "Turkish-European Dialogue on Global Affairs", hosted in Ankara by the brilliant Turkey team at German Marshall Fund.

Today, representatives from over 30 municipalities from Germany travelled to Istanbul to make a collective statement in support of democracy.

The Turkey-Germany City Partnership Summit is centered around the theme "Cities as Driving Forces of Democracy and Freedom."

A new 'world-first innovation' has just dropped in the German culinary scene: the UFO Döner!

A new culinary diplomatic crisis is brewing in German-Turkish relations: the Turkish Leberkäs Burger.

🚨 Applications Open: 11th Türkiye Europe Future Forum🚨

Join us in Istanbul, Sept 7–14, 2025, to

🔹 Discuss Turkish-European relations
🔹 Engage with top minds on geopolitical developments
🔹 Build lasting connections

More infos:
turkey-europe-future-forum.com/en/

📢 Call for Applications: 2025/26 round of the Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program is now accepting applications!

The main thematic areas of the program are:
- EU/German-Turkish relations
- Climate change

Please click here for more information and the application documents

🔗bit.ly/40qVOyJ

“In Turkey, we have found a community of practice dedicated to the fight for truth and justice like nowhere else in the world.”

A full house at the Three Doors exhibition at Depo, as Eyal Weizman discusses the methods of Forensic Architecture.

In its endless quest to change, Istanbul takes yet another sad turn.

Hi! I’m new here and still need to get oriented. But I assume that cat pictures are also appropriate here.