Balkan Youth Fire
Set up in the scope of our university in 2007, the folk dance group Balkan Gençlik Ateşi has had an important role in the presentation of our traditional culture especially making presentations in many Balkan countries. Many activities have been carried out between Trakya University and other universities in the Balkans through close relationships that display the region's cultural wealth. Balkan Gençlik Ateşi is one of the most important projects devoted to Balkans that is established for this purpose in parallel with the Mission and the Vision of Trakya University. Balkan Gençlik Ateşi, which both gives a new image to Trakya University’s cultural-artistic activities and sets the light to an age with its original shows that reflects the common history of Turkey and the countries in the Balkans, carries out burning with the fire caught from the power of modern youth and art.
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