This is the second part of our series introducing all Honorary Consuls of Finland in Turkey. Koray Turan is the Honorary Consul in Antalya and has served as Honorary Consul since 2012.

Finland launched the Talent Boost programme in 2017, which aims to boost the immigration of senior specialists, employees, students, and researchers. Türkiye, with its young and highly educated population, is a good target for talent boosting. Read more about the Talent Boost programme and the opportunities Finland and Türkiye offer.

The Erasmus+ programme enables training and studying abroad, and several Finns and Turks take advantage of this opportunity yearly. During the corona pandemic, the number of exchanges decreased, but they are expected to increase in the future. Ph.D. student Dilge Varli studied at the University of Helsinki through the Erasmus+ programme in the spring of 2022 from the Middle East Technical University (METU).

The first half of 2022 has been very active at the Ankara Embassy. We came out of the Covid-19 with a full calendar and huge energy to a world that seems so different now. We have already achieved big things this year, and the fall season has big things comings up – let us look at the first half of 2022.