Turkish university students win awards at TEKNOFEST 2026

Students from Turkish universities have achieved multiple awards at TEKNOFEST 2026 across various disciplines.

Arda Songur, a computer engineering student at Erzincan Binali Yıldırım University, secured first place in Turkey in the Mavi Vatan Küre Article Writing Competition. Songur also serves as a volunteer writer for the Küre Digital Encyclopedia, a project aimed at strengthening Turkey’s digital information independence and supporting domestic artificial intelligence models.

At Manisa Celal Bayar University, the PARGE: TURNA team earned second place in the Financial Technologies Competition for their KAPAN project. This AI-supported system is designed to combat money laundering by analyzing complex account relationships to detect suspicious rental account networks. Additionally, Elif Laçin from the Faculty of Education received the ‘Literary Writing Award’ in the Küre Blog category during the Mavi Vatan Article Writing Competition.