The “Aegean Innovation and Thyroid Surgery Workshop”, which addressed innovative developments in the treatment of thyroid diseases for the first time in Turkey, was held on Saturday, September 9, 2017 at the Muhittin Erel Amphitheatre of the Ege University Faculty of Medicine. In the workshop organized in collaboration with the Endocrine Surgery Association and the Ege University Faculty of Medicine, all technical details of both endoscopic and robot-assisted closed thyroid surgeries were discussed. The meeting, where Prof. Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi, Prof. Dr. Hoon Yub Kim and Dr. Angkoon Anuwong shared their experiences, attracted a great deal of interest. Approximately 200 participants had the opportunity to watch the “Transoral Endoscopic Thyroidectomy” surgery performed live by Dr. Angkoon Anowong, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özer Makay and Prof. Dr. Gianlorenzo Dionigi.