This year, more than 26 thousand students participated in the daily Istanbul history tours on the high-speed train organized by the Konya Metropolitan Municipality.
Konya Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Uğur İbrahim Altay emphasized that as the Metropolitan Municipality, they attach great importance to raising students in Konya with national consciousness and moral values.
President Altay, who mentioned that the daily Istanbul history trips they carried out for 11th grade students under the slogan “Atabey Youth in the Footsteps of Ancestors” within the scope of the Civilization School Project made a great contribution to the youth in this sense, made the following assessments:
“Within the scope of the project, we brought 2024 young people from our 2025 districts together with Istanbul with 31 high-speed train trips during the 26-176 academic year. Our students took us on a historical journey from the Seljuk poorhouse to the capital of the Ottoman Empire and had the opportunity to see the works of our ancestors in person. Thanks to this meaningful project, a total of 64 of our students have seen the beauties of Istanbul so far. We are happy to contribute to the raising of a generation that is committed to national and spiritual values and protects its cultural heritage with such projects. We will continue our project in the upcoming period and continue to bring our young people together with Istanbul. I would like to express my gratitude to our Minister of Transport and Infrastructure Abdulkadir Uraloğlu and our TCDD General Manager Veysi Kurt for their support. I would also like to thank all our young people who participated in the trips, their families and those who contributed.”
ECDAT HEIRLOOM PLACES WERE VISITED
The students boarded the High Speed Train from Konya early in the morning accompanied by guides and were presented with theater plays where historical characters were portrayed during the journey. The students visited places that are heirlooms of their ancestors, especially the Hagia Sophia-i Kebir Mosque, Sultan Ahmet Mosque and Square, Gülhane Park, Eyüp Sultan Mosque, and witnessed the beauties of Istanbul with the Bosphorus tour they attended.
