Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is a great pleasure and honor for us to welcome you in İstanbul, Türkiye and host the 44th Annual Congress of the European Strabismological Association (ESA) and AAPOS and Turkish Ophthalmological Association Joint Meeting. Istanbul is a very special place to have this meeting as it is at meeting point of two continents, forming a bridge between east and west. The great cultural heritage of the city will embrace you as well as the modern and youthful facilities.

“Pediatric Ophthalmology Perspective” will give the opportunity of updating your knowledge and also meeting the experts. The scientific programme of 44th ESA congress will be at the highest level as the previous ones and all aspects of childhood and adulthood strabismus....

Dear friends, colleagues, and strabismus enthusiasts,

it is my great pleasure to invite you all to attend the 44th Annual Congress of the European Strabismological Association held in Istanbul, Türkiye from 12th - 14th June 2025. After the spectacular ESA Meeting in Izmir 2004 and ISA Meeting in Istanbul 2010 we return to Turkiye to enjoy Turkish hospitality.

The Scientific Programme will be organised jointly with AAPOS – as we did very successfully 2017 in Porto – and the Turkish Ophthalmological Society. A big thank you to Huban Atilla, Şule Ziylan and Seyhan Özkan who will be the local organizers.

We will have our traditional 2½ day ESA program including our usual favourite sessions such as Round Table, Orthoptic Symposium, Early Morning Surgery Course, and our ever-popular John Lee rapid fire Poster session and “A Case I have learnt from…”. 

Dearest Colleagues and Future Friends,

On behalf of the entire American Association of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, I am excited to help co’host the combined ESA/AAPOS/TOA meeting in the wonderful city of Istanbul, Turkey.

For many of us, this will be the first opportunity we have had to attend an international meeting since the pandemic ended, and I personally am very excited to see Istanbul and Turkey for the first time.

We expect to have many attendees from all over the world. The wonderful advantage of an international symposium and meeting like this is to share the diverse views, and learn from the best experts in strabismus treatment and binocular vision development

One of the highlights will be the Knapp lecture, which is...