İzmir International Fair from Kadifekale

The İzmir International Fair ( tr, İzmir Enternasyonal Fuarı) is the oldest tradeshow in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

, considered the cradle of Turkey's fairs and expositions industry, and is also notable for hosting a series of simultaneous festival activities. The fair and the festival are held in the compound of İzmir's vast inner city park named Kültürpark in the first days of September, and organized b
İZFAŞ
a depending company o
İzmir Metropolitan Municipality
The 87th İzmir International Fair took place between 7–16 September 2018. İzmir International Fair is also the most venerable member (''since 1948'') from Turkey o
UFI
the association of the world's leading tradeshow organisers and fairground owners, as well as the major national and international associations of the exhibition industry, and its partners. The musical and other cultural events that accompany the commercial fair and that had actually started out as an auxiliary activity to attract popular interest for the event have become, over the years, a school by themselves.Turkey Real Estate Yearbook 2007 - Page 174 9077997172 IZFAŞ, which is the first Turkish fair organizer to become a member of the Global Association of the Exhibition Industry (UFI), has been organizing the Izmir International Fair since 1936. The fair itself is not limited to a theme, the participants are generally simply required to expose products with export or import potential, although each year a specific field of activity, a country and a Turkish province is put in limelight. The 2006 fair, for example, had

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and renewable energy sources (RES) as main themes, with participants to the fair from

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as privileged partners at international level, and those from Turkey's

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at national level. Fields of activity or expertise relating to such sectors as the

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, electric tools and devices,

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, working machinery and equipment,

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and packaging have always been well represented in İzmir Fair. The 2006 fair was expected to be visited by up to a million and a half people. 80 thousand meter squares of exposition space was used, 25 thousand of which is covered space. The venue of the event, Kültürpark, corresponds to the city quarters ravaged by the 1922

Great Fire of Smyrna The burning of Smyrna ( el, Καταστροφή της Σμύρνης, "Smyrna Catastrophe"; tr, 1922 İzmir Yangını, "1922 Izmir Fire"; hy, Զմիւռնիոյ Մեծ Հրդեհ, ''Zmyuṙno Mets Hrdeh'') destroyed much of the port city of ...

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İzmir International Fair İZFAŞ

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality
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