Diversity, Entertainment, Productivity
I believe the word that best describes the 23 is "experience". During all my 23 adventures, I experienced different environments and activities with my very special, successful, and distinguished peers. I can say that the widening of my perspective towards life and people throughout this adventure is the greatest competence that 23 has given me.

Berkay Uzuner

Adventure, Exploration, Experience
The answer to the question “What is happiness in an inner context?” was actually the best thing I learned at 23.

Mihriban Kıraç

Network, Tranquility, Teamwork
I was very surprised by the incredible stability in this process that started from the top. Hosting us with the same passion and motivation in every organization not only made me feel valuable but also enabled us to grow together. He gave us freedom of thought at every opportunity, together with the workshops and academy activities. Concepts that are not given to us in school life, such as expressing ourselves, taking responsibility, and using initiative; It was an incredible experience to implement in this process. While we provided mental development with the academy activities held for 1 year, we provided physical and spiritual development with the workshop activities. That's why I liken this process to the birth process of a baby. It was a journey that allowed us to come out of our shells as leaders for 1 year. 🙂

Abdullah Maden

Sharing, Unity, Division of Labor
23; It showed me teamwork, breaking down prejudices when communicating with people, understanding and interpreting different perspectives, and looking from different angles.

İrem Yılmaz

Faith, Discipline, Development
I think the incredible dynamic structure of 23 penetrates the human spirit.

Özlem Yalçın

Team, Leadership, Curiosity
In 23 adventures we spent 1 year, I discovered not only companies but also myself. Thanks to the case studies we solved, I realized how important it is to look at it from different angles. As an industrial engineer, I learned how to approach this problem if there is an issue that I need to solve/develop. 23 showed me how teams work, and what it means to be part of a team. Along with the workshops we did, I did activities that I had never tried before, and I realized how much I still have to try. 23 kept me alive and allowed me to meet very equipped people. Good luck 23!

İlke Zeynep Uyanıker

Self-Realization Journey
There is some breaking points in a person's life. When you lay your head on the pillow at night, these breaking points give you peace of mind that you have done a meaningful and useful job. It is a search for a meaning for what he channels his energy, his time. 23 is the milestone of this search for meaning for me. This is a place where there are people with different expectations, standards, and characters from life, but gathered around the same values. I'm talking about an ecosystem where leaders who are strong in communication, agile, solution-oriented, and adaptable to the new century are trained and will accelerate the paradigm shift in the near future. I used to be a person who lived his life among 5 styles and saw his own success above everything else. 23 made me question why I do what I do, and realize and develop myself and my values. The Summit was an experience where I realized that the particles of ideas that swirled around in my mind but that I couldn't make sense of actually had conceptual equivalents. I attended the summit not knowing what I was looking for. When I left, I found something to seek, a purpose for myself: myself. I've been looking for myself all year. It was a year in which I laid the foundation for the person I will be 40 years from now and gathered a lot of seeds of inspiration. We had sincere conversations with leaders that I would not see under normal circumstances, we entered the kitchens of many companies and observed the sectoral operation, and we saw how systems that make life easier are designed. I experienced many sports for the first time in the workshops, and then we turned around and looked at ourselves. We expanded our vision by looking at the events from the perspective of other 23 people and took another step towards becoming a world person. We have developed social responsibility projects. We took the initiative to deal with the problems experienced by disadvantaged groups. Throughout the process, I made many friends, nurturing each other and growing and improving together. At the end of this condensed one-year experience, the old self and the current self are not the same. Now there is an Erdoğan who knows himself better, is more mature, and has developed his competencies. It has given me 23 years of experience that I could not have gained anywhere else even in years. An ecosystem that will grow leaders who will build a more peaceful and prosperous Turkey and the world, free from egos and ambitions 23. Mark Twain talks about two important days in a person's life: one is the day we are born and the other is the day we realize why we were born. Here you will find the second day.

Erdoğan Kocabaş

Energy, Value, Environment, Family
Summit 23 was the first in-person event I attended after the pandemic. From the moment I walked in, there was a team that made me feel valuable and thought of me. I was very excited that the managers of our stakeholder companies in different sectors were with us at the summit and shared their experiences with us on the topics of the workshops that we will cover throughout the year. After the summit, we shared our experiences and thoughts in the field activities with each other in the workshops and shared with my friends about these issues. We experienced the happiness of adding value not only to ourselves but also to our environment by crowning our development process in the workshops with our social responsibility projects.

Arca Acar

Professionalism, Confidence, Friendliness
It was truly a dreamlike adventure for me! Selin who came here first and the current Selin are different. I've accomplished things that I couldn't even dream of. I had the opportunity to visit many companies, we made presentations to them, we met very valuable people, and we learned how a "team" can be. Most importantly, we made some great friendships. Everyone here is connected. If I call a friend from here one day and say "Hi, I'm Selin from 23, and I need your help", I'm sure he will help me without hesitation. Because the 23rd takes care of the 23rd. We are really lucky to be able to create this ecosystem and pass it on to our new friends next year.

Selin Parmaksız

Belonging, Discovering, Value
All the camp, field, and workshop processes made me think about things that I didn't think about in my normal life, and maybe ignored them.

İrem Topçam

Encouraging, Pioneering, Innovative
The best part of 23 was that it was not solely focused on business life and included entertainment, sports, and friendship.

Esra Yaman

Unexpected, Surprising, Brave
It has been a process that instills in us to be ourselves and always reminds us of our responsibility towards our environment.

Dilek Bakuş

Awareness, Development, Benefit
23 adventure has been a process where I found much more than I expected. It was a process full of innovations, lots of fun and learning, sharing, and discoveries. Even spending a year with people who are open to innovation and willing to develop was a completely different experience in itself. During the semester, we had the opportunity to try sports and activities that most of us had not experienced before. In the workshops that come after these experiences, which are almost a gym for our mind and heart muscles; We learned the subtleties of various key characteristics such as courage, passion, conscience, and balance that a leader should possess, and how to use them in a practical way. In addition, I saw many different areas that will shed light on my career during company trips, and immediately after these trips, I gained experience in many areas such as stress management, asking the right questions, the right division of labor, and teamwork in case studies where we tried to develop a project with a random team in a short time. While doing all of these, we developed projects in our project teams, and most importantly, we did all of them together in a warm family atmosphere that is rarely encountered, in an environment where our minds and consciences say the same things, considering the social benefit.

Emir Kısa

Difference, Journey, Family
In your 23 adventure, you learn to listen to people, to listen to "yourself". In this exhausting pace of daily life, you remember yourself and your existence. Perhaps most importantly, you realize that every person you listen to their thoughts and feelings in a circle makes you a completely different person and brings you closer to being the best version of yourself.

Türkan Mürdün

Process, Experience, Excitement
23 The best word to describe my adventure would be "process". For 1 year, different themes were covered with different activities, while social responsibility projects were worked on. For this reason, as a 23rd, I have never felt passive while waiting for an event to happen the next month; I was aware that I was in an active process all the time. Since I am a result-oriented person, I could sometimes overlook the importance of the process and get away from the "moment". Thanks to 23, I learned to return to the "moment" and follow the process on the way to the result. When I think about my adventure, the fact that I think of different information that I learned and experienced at different times makes me realize that this is a learning area that requires a process, and in this way, I can look at the process on the way to the result with the big picture.

Beyzanur Şaşı

Doubt, Uncertainty, Benefit
23, the uncertainties in my life are not negative to me; taught that it is actually a useful phenomenon. It taught me to touch the people around me at micro and macro scales.

Furkan Akbaş

Pleasure, Unknown, Experience
From the first day of the Summit, I can say that I have seen much more attention and effort from the 23 team than I expected. The organization at the top and everything thought out big and small had me hooked the moment I entered. Talking about how the process would continue on the same day made me realize that I wanted to be a part of 23 in many ways. In the next period, it continued with written test and video work, interview and camp. Every work that I have been together with the 23 team has added a lot of different things to me. As difficult as this process was, it was also enjoyable. Because at the end of the day, being one of the first 23s made me feel like I could become a part of this wheel. In the following one-year period, we carried out various workshops and academy activities. Even though the sports activities we did before the workshop from time to time forced me, it always allowed me to have a new experience. In the workshops, we came together with various themes that we did not spare much time to talk about. We were together with many stakeholders such as İGA, Turkish Cargo, Sorar and Galataport in the academy studies we conducted afterwards. The things we learned with the attention of the employees and our communication23 were not the kind of things I could experience without them. At the same time, each of us started to carry out social responsibility projects with the group he was in. Being together from the beginning of a project has carried forward both our communication and work within the group and our own individual development.

Nisa Ceren Şahin