The EU Language Forum was held in Izmir on 12-14 October 2016 with the participation of Vice-President of EU Delegation to Turkey, Gabriel Munuera Vinals along with 120 university students from 20 different provinces of Turkey as well as academicians and language experts. IKV Information Centre Coordinators M. Gökhan Kilit and Mehmet Poyrazlı also attended the forum during which foreign language education in Turkey was discussed by specialists in the framework of the project to support the EU Information Centre Network in Turkey.

At the forum, the students participated in educational and interactive panel sessions and took part in workshops focusing on topics such as multilingualism which is considered as a distinctive feature of the EU, language policies in Turkey in the context of relations with the EU, multilingual learning, linguistic diversity and language of the media.

On the last day of the forum, which was held in the Izmir Gas Plant, the students who participated in the interactive section that Mesut Yar moderated, discussed the language issue with the results of the survey conducted via electronic voting.