Current affairs

Finland will hold its parliamentary elections on Sunday 2 April 2023. Advance voting will be possible abroad from 22 to 25 March 2023. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs is responsible for organising advance voting abroad.

This is FINLAND Magazine 2023–2024, a publication exploring Finland’s strengths and expertise, is now available in English. This year’s Magazine highlights some of the building blocks of a good life in Finland: nature, work, culture, renewable energy and innovation.

In the first Newsletter of 2023, we introduce the Honorary Consul in Adana, Mr. Levent Uğurses. This is the fifth part of our series introducing all Honorary Consuls of Finland in Türkiye. Mr. Uğurses has served as Honorary Consul since March 2022.

Within the scope of the "Safe Ankara, Safe Pedestrian" campaign organized with the collaboration of the Finnish Embassy in Ankara and Ankara Metropolitan Municipality, 750 reflective armbands were distributed to students.

Minister of Trade of Türkiye Mr. Mehmet Muş paid a visit to Helsinki, Finland on January 12, accompanied by a large Turkish business delegation organized by Foreign Economic Relations Board of Türkiye DEİK. The bilateral discussions between Minister for Development Cooperation and Foreign Trade Mr. Ville Skinnari and Turkish Minister of Trade Mr. Mehmet Muş focused on trade relations between the two countries, cooperation in decarbonisation, green transition and digitalisation, development of global value chains and logistics, measures to promote sustainability, and the WTO reform.

The Ministers met in Helsinki on 12 January.

Remember to inform the Digital and Population Data Services Agency in Finland if your address changes.

The Embassy of Finland in Ankara has a vacancy for a position as “Driver and logistical officer” starting from February 2023 or as per agreement.

His Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar invited Minister Kaikkonen to Ankara. This was the first visit to Türkiye by a Finnish defense minister in 17 years. Minister Kaikkonen visited the Anıtkabir the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, had bilateral discussions with Turkish National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar, and gave interviews for the media. He also received a briefing from Ambassador Mäki and the Embassy staff on bilateral relations and current affairs.