Germany Meets Turkey

Welcome to Germany Meets Turkey - A Forum for Young Leaders. A program organized by the Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (ICD) and the Robert Bosch Stiftung in cooperation with the Istanbul Policy Center (IPC).

Germany Meets Turkey (GMT) is an interdisciplinary network for young leaders and future innovators from Germany and Turkey. The aim of GMT is to establish a solid and lasting basis for dialogue between the two countries in order to promote mutual understanding on a societal level. GMT provides a framework for young, dedicated people from a variety of fields including economics, politics, academia, education, culture and the media to meet and exchange ideas. United by their mutual interest in strengthening German-Turkish relations and contributing towards bilateral exchange, they actively support the network through their own personal activities and projects.

Germany Meets Turkey is part of The Ernst Reuter Initiative for Intercultural Dialogue and Understanding; a Turkish-German cooperation project under the patronage of the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier and the former Foreign Minister of Turkey Abdullah Gül.

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GMT 2008 - New Participants

Selection Committee has chosen new participants for the Germany Meets Turkey – A Forum for Young Leaders program.

The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy, the Robert Bosch Foundation and the Istanbul Policy Centre are pleased to be able to announce the new participants of the Germany Meets Turkey – A Forum for Young Leaders program 2008.

On May 28th GMT’s selection committee decided on the 12 participating German and Turkish Young Leaders coming from the fields of economy, politics, civil society and media. Together with last year’s participants, the selected candidates will go to Ankara und Istanbul from October 12th – 19th.