The “National Youth Summit,” organized for the first time in Turkey, took place on May 20, 2026, in Ankara at the Presidential Communications Directorate building. Our faculty’s Combating Disinformation Club participated in the summit under the leadership of Assoc. Prof. Dr. Yasin Söğüt.

The summit, which brought together leading figures in the field with young people, was attended by Burhanettin Duran, Head of the Presidential Communications Directorate, and Osman Aşkınbak, Minister of Youth and Sports, as well as numerous high-level figures from the fields of media, public communications, and the fight against disinformation. Panels held during the summit featured Deniz Demir, Coordinator of the Presidential Communications Directorate’s Center for Combating Disinformation; Prof. Dr. Nebi Miş, General Coordinator of SETA; Kasım İleri, Director of the Strategic Communications and Crisis Management Department at the Presidential Communications Directorate and moderator; Cemal Coşkun, General Manager of DHA; Mustafa Kartoğlu, Editor-in-Chief of Akşam Newspaper; Mücahid Eker, Deputy General Manager of TRT; Nazlı Çelik, Editor-in-Chief of Star News; Aslan Değirmenci, Digital Media Coordinator at the Presidency’s Communication Directorate and moderator; GZT Editor-in-Chief Doğukan Gezer, Anadolu Agency Fact-Checking Unit Director Ömer Faruk Görçin, Turkuvaz Media Group Director of Digital Strategy and Social Media Hamza Özdemir, and GDH Editor-in-Chief Yasin Tekşen.

The summit was the first large-scale event in Turkey where young people could engage in direct dialogue with representatives from the public sector, the media, and academia on the topics of media literacy and combating disinformation. The participation of the Tirebolu Faculty of Communication’s Disinformation Combat Society in this important event demonstrated our faculty’s active engagement in current discussions within the field.