Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

Facebook Station, implemented in collaboration with TOBB and Habitat Association and seen as one of Facebook's biggest investments in Turkey, aims to help people, communities and businesses in different cities of Turkey reach the skills, resources and information they need to grow.

After Facebook Station in Istanbul, Samsun, Denizli, Kırklareli, Adana, Mersin, Van, Trabzon, Bursa, Ankara, the last of the satellite centers, Izmir Station, will host a series of different trainings, programs and workshops focused on the digitization of Turkey's society and economy.

The protocol signing ceremony held at The Dramalılar Mansion in Bornova was attended by Facebook Turkey Public Policy Chairman Çağatay Pekyörür, who participated in the protocol signing ceremony held in Bornova with an online link, along with Habitat Chairman Sezai Hazır, the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB) Board Member Mahmut Özgener, İzmir Commodity Exchange President Işınsu Kestelli and Bornova Mayor Mustafa İduğ.

- Praise from Özgener for cooperation

TOBB Board Member Mahmut Özgener said, "İzmir is one of the most important economic centers of Turkey. Opening the satellite center of Facebook Station in İzmir will strengthen the city's entrepreneurial potential. İzmir Station and the relationship between the actors in İzmir entrepreneurship ecosystem with Istanbul, Ankara and abroad will be strengthened. Activities aimed at developing SMEs will also be carried out under the leadership of our entrepreneurial boards in İzmir. I hope that today's signing will prove beneficial for the city's economy."

İzmir Commodity Exchange (ICE) President Işınsu Kestelli said, "Today, education is the beginning of every business. It doesn't matter whether you're a graduate teenager or a certain point in their own industry. Each of us has to update our knowledge regularly. Since we are not mobile apps but human beings, there is no possibility that anyone will present these updates to us. In parallel with the evolving technologies, we have to do this ourselves."

Çağatay Pekyörür, Head of Public Policy at Facebook Turkey, said: "In all our community centers, we will organize training programs and workshops focusing on a range of different issues, such as developing export strategies through online fields, using digital marketing tools, learning in the field of Facebook products and growing through digital communication so that individuals, businesses, communities and NGOs can develop themselves in the digital world."

"With this protocol, which we see as a goodwill agreement, we aim to fundamentally support entrepreneurship in the region."

Bornova Mayor Mustafa Ä°duÄŸ pointed out that Bornova Municipality has implemented important projects in the field of digitalization and innovation.