Turkic Council Junior Diplomats 5th Joint Training program has started with the visit to Atatürk’s Mausoleum and followed by the opening ceremony at Diplomacy Academy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Turkey on 25 June 2018.
22 junior diplomats from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkey and Uzbekistan are participating in the program, which was launched by the welcoming and opening speeches of Professor Mesut Özcan, Acting Director of the Diplomacy Academy and Dr. Omer Kocaman, Deputy Secretary General of the Turkic Council.

Opening ceremony continued with the lecture of Ambassador Halil Akıncı, First Secretary General of the Turkic Council on a topic of Role of the Turkic Council in Fostering Cooperation among Turkic Speaking Countries.

Junior Diplomats Joint Training Program was included in the activities of the Turkic Council in accordance with the Cooperation Protocol among the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, signed at the Third Summit of the Turkic Council. In this framework, First, Second, Third and Fourth Junior Diplomats Joint Training Programs were organized in Turkey on 13-25 April 2014, in Azerbaijan on 1-15 March 2015, in Kazakhstan on 23 May-5 June 2016, and in Kyrgyzstan on 3-16 July 2017 respectively.

The Secretariat prepares the contents of the training programs taking into consideration the priorities of the Turkic Council and the host country as well as the experiences from the previous programs. Through the programs, junior diplomats of the Member States attend two-week training in one of the Member States to increase their knowledge about that country, current issues of international relations as well as to build lasting friendship with each other.

The program in Turkey will last for two weeks and end on 7 July 2018.