Announcements

We are excited to announce the launch of the Empowering Young Politicians Program, which we have initiated to support young politicians to strengthen their role in their parties and to take on more important positions. The program, designed for youth aged 18-30 who are actively engaged in political parties, will include 12 sessions covering diverse […]

As we move towards 2025, the Arayüz Campaign has reinforced its commitment to strengthening youth political representation and democratic participation. Building on the strides we have made in recent years to ensure recognition of youth rights and their active role in politics, we are fully aware that there is still much to be done for […]

Program for Increasing Youth Participation in Local Governments launch event was held in Istanbul on Monday, 20 November. We discussed the details of the programme and our new term projects and were accompanied by representatives from civil society, members of the press and politicians. For more information about the Program for Increasing Youth Participation in […]

Representing the Arayuz Campaign, our Campaign Director Nevzat Taşcı and Communication Director Serra Semiz were in Germany for a series of meetings between October 9-13. A meeting was held with SPD deputy Gülistan Yüksel at the German Parliament on the political participation and representation of young people migrating from Turkey to Germany. Our directors also […]

Representing the Arayuz Campaign, our Campaign Director Nevzat Taşcı and Communication Director Serra Semiz met with MPs from various parties at the Turkish Grand National Assembly on October 5-6. Within the scope of this visit, we met with CHP İzmir MP Gökçe Gökçen, CHP İstanbul MP Namık Tan, CHP Zonguldak MP Deniz Yavuzyılmaz and CHP […]

We are pleased to announce our program to support young candidates for municipal council members for the local elections that will take place on 31 March 2024. The program, under which 100 young people between the ages of 18-30 who want to be a municipal council member will take part, will include a total of […]

Since 2020, we have carried out various activities for the recognition of young people’s rights, acceptance of their status as subjects and democratic participation. We have listened to and reported on the problems of young people through focus group studies, created spaces of interaction between politics and youth, conducted media campaigns to ensure that the […]

In cooperation with CDR, we organized 3 workshops in 3 cities, Istanbul, Rize and Trabzon. The aim of the project was to support young people between the ages of 18-25 to identify the problems that concern them and to produce innovative solutions for these problems. These problems covered areas such as youth representation, youth poverty, […]

The third Arayüz Youth Summit, which has become a tradition, took place on Wednesday, May 3rd. This year, we focused on the 2023 General Elections. Accordingly, we held Round Table meetings with young parliamentary candidates during the nomination process before the Summit. During the meetings, we listened to young parliamentary candidates about the dynamics within […]

At Youth Matters #5, which took place on Wednesday 19th of April, we hosted Erkan Baş, Chairperson of the Workers’ Party of Türkiye. In the event moderated by journalist Beril Eski, Erkan Baş first answered the moderator’s questions and then answered the questions of the young people participating in the event, addressing the dominant understanding […]