Children's well-being summit in Samarkand: Emine Erdoğan tours Uzbekistan's human-capital exhibition with guests from Kyrgyzstan and Bashkortostan

On 22 October the “Investing in Children's Well-Being: Path to Sustainable and Equitable Development of Future Generations” World Summit was held in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. Türkiye's First Lady Emine Erdoğan toured an exhibition opened as part of the summit.

The 13-section exhibition “Reforms for Developing Human Capital in Uzbekistan” shows work on children's health, rights and development, and how investment in children translates into family life, education, protection and social participation. Emine Erdoğan spoke with the exhibition's creators and wrote “Stop the wars” in the wishes section.

She was accompanied by Family and Social Services Minister Mahinur Özdemir Göktaş and Dr. Esra Albayrak, chair of the NUN Education and Culture Foundation. Also at the exhibition were Ziroat Mirziyoyeva, wife of the President of Uzbekistan, and their daughter Shakhnoza Mirziyoyeva, Aygul Japarova, wife of the President of Kyrgyzstan, and Karina Khabirova, wife of the head of Bashkortostan.

The same day Emine Erdoğan also visited the Imam al-Bukhari mausoleum in the Samarkand area.