The winners of the writing contest following the “My Europe” workshop in Istanbul in May 2012 were chosen by a jury consisting of many of the Turkish partners involved. Besides Professor Pohl as founder of “My Europe”, Tuğba Yüksel, European Union Projects Development Officer at Doğa College, Dr. Mehmet Köksal, a Partner at Köksal Avukatlık Ortaklığı, Zeynep Gürcanlı, journalist at Hürriyet, and Atilla Özkul, General Manager at Deichmann Ayakkabıcılık,rated all contributions to find the best articles. All winners were invited to the “Get2Gather” in Frankfurt in November 2013.

The winners were:

1. Semih Karadeniz – “The Unbelievable Change of Europe”
2. Derin Akyel – “The Future of a Legend: grim or bright?”
3. Emre Yigit Kuzhan – “The Future of the European Union”
4. Ruya Tekce – “Future is the Youth”
5. Ece Yilmaz – “Unheard The Bilateral Relations of EU with Turkey in 2050”