The Presidency’s Directorate of Communications, in cooperation with the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, will organise a comprehensive environmental and climate media tour on 9–11 May 2026. Following the first media tour held in İstanbul and Kocaeli on 27–29 March 2026, the second leg of the programme will take place in Hatay and İstanbul. The “Road to COP31: Sustainable Future International Media Programme”, aimed at raising international media awareness ahead of the COP31 Summit to be hosted by Türkiye in November, will bring together 17 foreign media representatives from 11 countries, including the United Kingdom, Hungary, Spain, South Korea, Italy, Serbia, Morocco,...
Announcements & Activities
The award ceremony for the infographic competition themed “The History of Genocides in the World and Gaza,” organised in cooperation between our Directorate and Yozgat Bozok University, was held. Speaking at the ceremony held at the Erdoğan Akdağ Congress and Culture Centre, the Rector of Yozgat Bozok University, Prof. Evren Yaşar, stated that the aim of the competition was to remind society of what has been forgotten, make the unseen visible, and refresh collective memory in order to prevent history from repeating itself. Prof. Yaşar thanked the organising committee, jury members, and stakeholders who contributed to the...
The Directorate of Communications has created its official institutional profile on Hugging Face, one of the world’s largest artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning community platforms. As the first upload on the profile, disinformation bulletins prepared by the Centre for Combating Disinformation have been shared as an open dataset. Consisting of approximately 2,810 verified claim records, the dataset covers a wide range of topics—such as earthquakes, elections, migration, and the economy—including false claims circulated on social media along with their official verifications. Published in both Turkish and English, the dataset has been made freely available to researchers, journalists,...
Directorate of Communications will organise the “Safe Society in the Digital Age: Risks and Solutions Panel” on 30 April 2026 at 09:15. The panel will take place at the Conference Hall of the Directorate of Communications.
The accreditation process has been launched for members of the press who wish to attend the 2026 NATO Summit, which will be hosted by Türkiye in Ankara on 7–8 July. Members of the press who wish to attend the Summit are required to complete their accreditation applications via NATO’s official website. Respectfully announced. Please click here for detailed information about the application process.
The Presidency’s Directorate of Communications, the Foundation for Political, Economic and Social Research (SETA), and the Sasakawa Peace Foundation co-organised a comprehensive programme comprising a panel session, a roundtable discussion and a meeting with members of the press on 21 April 2026 in Tokyo, the capital of Japan, under the title “The Developments in the Middle East and the Future of Türkiye–Japan Relations.” Within the framework of the programme hosted by the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, opening remarks were delivered by the President of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, Atsushi Sunami, and by the Ambassador of the Republic of Türkiye...
Media representatives accredited to cover the event to be held at the Martyrs' Monument on April 24, 2026, as part of the Commemoration Ceremonies of the 111th Anniversary Çanakkale Land Battles, can obtain their accreditation cards from the Directorate of Communications Çanakkale Regional Directorate until the end of working hours on Wednesday, April 23, 2026. Accreditation cards can be obtained from Eceabat İskele Cafe between 08:00 and 08:30 on the day of the ceremony (April 24, 2026). Vehicles for transportation to the ceremony area will depart from Eceabat İskele Cafe, designated as the press gathering point, between 08:00 and 08:30. Respectfully announced. Contact Phone Numbers: Aydın ÖNCÜ ...
The Directorate of Communications has published President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's opening speech at the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) as a book in Turkish, English, and Arabic. The ADF, which has critical importance in terms of peace diplomacy and constitutes one of Türkiye's global brand assets, brought together more than 20 heads of state and government, nearly 15 deputy heads of state and government, over 50 ministers —including more than 40 foreign ministers)— and more than 460 high-level officials, including 75 representatives of international organisations, from over 150 countries this year. Many other guests, including academics and students, also attended the event. In his speech at...
A panel titled “Strategic Communications for Managing Uncertainties” was held as part of the Antalya Diplomacy Forum (ADF) 2026. Moderated by Senior Correspondent at Al Jazeera English TV, Resul Serdar Ataş, the panel featured the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Director General of Anadolu Agency (AA), Serdar Karagöz, Deputy Head of Communications Ferhat Pirinççi, Director of the New York Office of the United Nations Environment Programme, Jamil Ahmad, Visiting Distinguished Professor at TÜBİTAK in the field of Science Diplomacy and Mediation, Nancy Snow, and Co-Founder and Co-Editor-in-Chief of Middle...