Given the global economic volatility and diverse geopolitical risks, this year’s Forum Istanbul will focus on how Turkey can maintain its economic/political stability while at the same time continuing rapid pace of its sustainable growth. The government has signaled that agriculture will feature prominently in its immediate agenda, taking bold steps with serious implications for the future of this proportionately large sector of the economy.

Other key issues which will be treated by key Turkish and international personalities include: 

• The World’s New Power Brokers and Turkey
• The importance of Foreign Direct Investments for a sustainable stability
• Can Turkey become an R&D center?
• Europe in Turkey and Turkey in Europe
• Deepening partnership between Russia and Turkey: trade, investment, energy, tourism and defence
• Turkey’s changing position in regional energy equations
• Stay young while the world is getting older
• The future of agriculture in Turkey’s stabilized growth and Turkey’s advantages in agriculture
• Globalization in agriculture and new areas
• International success stories in agriculture
• Financing and insurance in agriculture and new dimensions
• Central Asia Investment Forum and Cooperation with Turkey