Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Head of the Board of Trustees Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver published a message regarding the IKU agenda which has changed with the New Coronavirus Disease. 

My Dear Kültür Family,

The second wave of the pandemic brought along a sensitive process for us as the Kültür Family. In the last week of November, we observed a sudden increase in the number of our colleagues who are directly affected by COVID 19. The results were alarming for all of us. During this struggle of my colleagues with their families, I tried to stay in touch with them as much as possible. The situation of all my friends was carefully monitored by our Head of Health, Culture and Sports Department Dr. Dilek Baykal and her team. I would like to take this occasion to thank Dr. Baykal and her team.

I got the good news from our colleagues last week. Learning that each of them regained their former health was one of the best developments we have experienced in this difficult period. I am sending my get well soon wishes to all our family.

My Dear Kültür Family,

Although we are all more conscious compared to the first phase we face the pandemic, we have been extremely tired. After the new wave, the increase in the number of cases, and our individual experiences, trying to maintain a positive perspective is neither possible nor realistic now. Forward-looking assumptions and busy plans began to turn into an element of pressure for everyone. At this stage, the way to manage the period we are in with the smoothest transition for ourselves and our environment is through conscious awareness, acceptance and staying calm. The best move we can make for ourselves and our environment is to be calm and in control. We will continue to think without being overwhelmed under responsibility and to produce as much as we can. We will make an effort to accept that all the fears and anxieties we have experienced during this process are extremely human and to handle the process with understanding and compassion.

My Dear Kültür Family,

Our working order will not continue on the campus till January 4, 2020. We have a critical memory and experience regarding working from home. We have come a long way in distance education with CATS V3. We achieved the "sustainability in education service" goal that we determined in the first phase of the crisis.

Our routine meetings with our Deans and Head of Departments continue during the remote working period. Last week, our meeting agenda with our Deans was quite busy. In the 2020-2021 academic year shaped by distance education; we talked about methods and ideas to ensure academic quality. In this meeting, we discussed re-transforming our perspective on concepts. We held a productive meeting on adapting instead of controlling, focusing on keeping learning loss to a minimum, developing a culture of working together instead of hierarchy, focusing on human expectations and needs instead of performance anxiety. Some key questions that we had to think about also emerged: "Meeting or taking action in the distance education and working process?", "How should the exams be prepared more creatively and in line with the conditions of today?", "How can we bring our teaching processes to the level that it will keep the student's interest and knowledge alive?” etc. We have worked on different questions  and will continue to work. We will get over this crisis stronger with our educator identity. This should be more than a wish, a goal for all of us. That’s why, we should search for good examples that will minimize the learning loss and keep the teaching excitement alive.

My Dear Kültür Family, 

We are in such a period where psychological health and safety are also important for institutions as well as physical. In this process, the expertise, experience and coordination of our academic and administrative staff are very important to maintain our resilience. I know that our administrative staff, as well as our academicians, work devotedly in order to provide and provide uninterrupted education service, which is the reason for the existence of Kültür. The share of logistics and support services in the operation process of the education service is indisputable. I especially ask the academic and administrative staff to stay in touch during this period. We should not consider the fact that nothing will be the same as before as a pressure, but as an element of change. The most important thing is to be agile, constructive and humane in communication. In the words of our Honorary President Master of Civil Engineering Fahamettin Akıngüç, we are doing a job that is surrounded by humans.  As well as its meaning,  its responsibility is also a huge job. We take the strength to carry this mission from our core values. Kültür values ​​that we have internalized are not only evident in our constitution, but also in the words of the anthem prepared by the MFÖ Group for Kültür College in the 1970s. On this occasion, I would like to share with you the Kültür Anthem, the gift of our Honorary President, which I listened to again last week and gave me hope in these difficult times.

I believe that we will have many nice shares with friendship and health.

Hope to see you

Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver
IKU Head of the Board of Trustees

IKU Student Life, Career and Alumni Advisory Unit (Kültür Point) supported the  "Mentor Mentor Project" that Turkey Armenian Patriarchate Youth Commission began to implement. In the program, which included 18 mentors and 13 mentees, the Deputy Head of the Kültür Point Unit Mücella Ezgin and the Communication Expert Doğa Kurtyiğit attended as trainers. In the training,  the concepts of mentoring and mentees and the responsibilities of mentors and mentees in the project were mentioned. In addition, the methods of persuasion, the basic techniques used in persuasion and their relationship with the psychological principle that guides human behavior were transferred to the mentees and mentors to gain awareness.

Bedirhan Koç, a graduate of IKU Architecture Department, won the Equivalent 2nd prize in the Modeling Competition with Glazed Tile with the model named "Knitting the Gap", which he designed with his teammate Gülsen Şenol. We congratulate our graduate and wish him continued success.

'Knitting the Gap' experience, inspired by the knitted structure of the fabric, aims to define a new gap experience in the lexicon of the city, nature and human. The journey that people tear and drag the full into with their own senses unwraps the body with the resonance of movement, presents an unexpected encounter with emptiness and "any" and knits it with the closure of the body; which is fast and full 'place' again. The fabric pieces lined up one after the other blur the boundaries between the outside and inside with the linear and hollow carriers on which they are articulated, and examine the penetration of 'any' lined senses into space, human and body.

Istanbul Kültür University Vocational School Business Management Program with the first of Microsoft Turkey peakup education online training webinars organized by the scope of cooperation was held on Friday, December 18, 2020. During the training, which was moderated by Lecturer N. Gözde Bircan, Head of the Business Management Program, which lasted about 2 hours; PEAKUP Senior Business Consultant, Hande Tarhan, allows you to create meetings, hold conversations, chat, filter message notifications, share files, announcements and questionnaires within the chat, use message buttons, screen sharing, prepare task list, team building and channel via Microsoft Teams. The usage and features of many applications such as opening and background design were explained.

Director & Producer Can Soysal was the second guest of the " Kültür of Life Academy Now and the Future-Success Stories Workshop " organized by the Kültür Point on Wednesday, December 23, 2020 at 15:00 on Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application. To the seminar moderated by Ömür Kınay, one of the lecturers of the Communication and Design Department; IKU administrative and academic staff and Cartoon Animation Department students showed great interest.

Firstly, Soysal explained the establishment process of the TRT Kid's thematic channel, and stated that children's broadcasting has a history and sometimes the channel allocates certain time periods to children in its own broadcast flow in periods when thematic channels are not formed. He added that later thematic channels with children themes emerged.

Talking about the broadcast stream of TRT Kid, Soysal said that there is no dead hour in the broadcast because it has a morning-noon system. He stated that they set different broadcasting generations so that children do not stay in front of the screen for hours, thereby allowing the transition to other age groups.

The event ended after the questions from the Cartoon and Animation Department academic staff and students were answered.

The second of the "Tea and Coffee Meetings" events, in which Istanbul Kültür University Vocational School Business Management Program students and academicians gathered for morale and motivation, was held on Saturday, December 19, 2020. The meeting where Lecturer N. Gözde Bircan, Lecturer Kübra Mertel and Lecturer Merve Eseoğlu talked about their student memories, took place as a pleasant evening conversation with tea and coffee. The event was completed with a souvenir photo taken at the end of the conversation.

Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences organized a webinar titled “Conversations on Ethics-I” on Thursday, December 17, 2020. In the event where Prof. Dr. Şadi Can Saruhan and Lecturer Bülent Şenver were speakers; Historical development of ethics, ethical perspective and ethical problems were discussed In the event moderated by Prof. Dr. Mahmut Paksoy; Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences Prof. Dr. Ali Şen informed the participants about the ethics studies of the faculty.

Kültür Point works in cooperation with the Presidency Human Resources Office (CBİKO) in order to improve the career development opportunities of our students and graduates. This week, 16 new job and internship announcements were shared with students and graduates at the Talent Gate, which was established by the initiatives of CİBKO.

The Department of International Trade and Finance held an e-conversation titled " International Trade and Finance Department Meets With Their Lecturers " at 21:00 on Wednesday, December 23, 2020. In the live broadcast on Instagram; The questions of the participants were answered with a pleasant conversation with Assoc. Prof. Ali Özgür Karagülle, a faculty member of Istanbul University, an academic from the International Trade and Finance Department of DSU.

FOX News Editor-in-Chief Doğan Şentürk was the first guest of the "Kültür of Life Academy Now and the Future-- Strong Communication Workshop" organized by the Kültür Point on Monday, 21 December 2020, on the Virtual Classroom Application. Producer & Presenter Hülya Aydın was the moderator of the event, and IKU academic and administrative staff and students participated.

The event started with how the pandemic affected the media industry. Doğan Şentürk emphasized that after the health sector, those who are most at risk are reporters in the field.

Describing his 30 years of reporting and journalism life, Şentürk started his career on private television in the 1990s. Şentürk, who worked with many veterans, said that he did not have a single role model, and that he took all the veterans he worked with as a role model with their negative and positive aspects.

Expressing that they are doing impartial and transparent reporting, Doğan Şentürk talked about the importance of the audience, the values they add to themselves and the channel.

Finally, Şentürk made recommendations for our students who want to be journalists.

Molecular Biology and Genetics Department organized an e-seminar titled “Current Advances in Tissue Engineering” on Wednesday, December 23. Prof. Dr. Seyhan Altun was the moderator of the event, in which Prof. Dr. Menemşe Gümüşdereli from Hacettepe University was the speaker. In the seminar held with the participation of students and alumni; The production stages of engineered tissues, which can be developed with interdisciplinary approaches of tissue engineering, under laboratory conditions for use in case of tissue and / or organ damage-loss were discussed.

IKUSEM Director Lecturer Zafer Erkoç held the "Multi-Source Back-Concurrent-Forward Notification and Instructional Corrections" training on Saturday, December 19, 2020.

An e-seminar entitled "Climate Change and Turkey" was held Saturday, December 19, 2020 by Economy Club. Participating in the event as a speaker, N. Merve Hamzaoğlu discussed in detail the definition of climate change, its causes and effects. Turkey and the world in the near term affects exemplify the use of fossil energy sources, such as deforestation causes were addressed. The disasters caused by climate change and their effects on the sectors were explained. Environmental policies applied globally and in our country were discussed and what should be done was emphasized.

The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics organized a webinar titled “Factors involved in the beneficial effects on fasting on exercise, animal and human studies” on Friday, December 18th. Prof. Dr. Ajda Çoker Gürkan was the moderator of the event, in which Assoc. Prof. Pieter de Lange (University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli") participated as a speaker. In the seminar attended by students and alumni, the molecular effects of exercise and nutrition on fatty acid metabolism were discussed.

IKU PDR Club organized an e-seminar titled "Case Analysis-Individual Psychology" on Monday, December 21, 2020. In the event moderated by Assist. Prof. Melda Erbaş; The case of a young girl living in Asia was analyzed according to various points of individual psychology theory. While the common and different points of Adlerian therapy with other theories were discovered, the theory was enabled to learn more permanently by moving from theoretical to practice.

Department of Economics held a e-seminar which Prof. Dr. Harun Öztürkler is a speaker titled "Covid-19’s Effects on Turkey's Economy" on Wednesday, December 16, 2020. A wide range of effects on Turkey's economy and Covid-19 was transferred to the participants at the event covered economic policies. TurkStat data and past crises were discussed, and the emergence of two demand and supply shocks were discussed. adequacy of Turkey's fiscal and monetary policies implemented since March 2020, and discussed what should be done in the future. Policies to be implemented in order not to lose employment were also discussed at the event.

Assoc. Prof. Çağla Gül Yesevi, a faculty member of the Department of International Relations, was appointed as co-director with Assoc. Prof.  Özge Zihnioğlu in the international research project "SRG1920 \ 100787 coded Ultranationalist Mobilization and Pathways to Radicalization" supported by The British Academy.

International CEO (Communication, Economy, Organization) Social Sciences Congress hosted by Bosnia and Herzegovina Gorazde University and it was held in cooperation with International Vision University, Nişantaşı University, Central Asian American University, Muş Alparslan University, Cyprus West University, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University and CEO Technology Development Center (TEKMER). At the congress held between 18-20 December 2020; Assist. Prof. H. Neyir Tekeli, Head of Civil Air Transportation Management Program, presented her paper titled “Tourism Sector in Turkey after Covid-19 and Its Reflections on Tourism”

Unit Vice Head of the Kültür Point Mücella Ezgin made a seminar titled “Career Planning” to the Ali Rıza Özderici Anatolian High School senior year students. In the seminar the topics such as the principles of life design, the changing world, the competencies of the future and new job descriptions were discussed which was held in cooperation with high school counseling teachers to increase exam motivation during the pandemic process.

In order to help participants get to know themselves better, game-based applications were carried out with living space studies.

At the end of the seminar, career development and student life opportunities offered by Istanbul Kültür University to its students were also mentioned.

Assist. Prof. Esin Hasgül, one of the academicians of Istanbul Kültür University Department of Architecture and a member of the Design Guides team, gave a presentation as an invited speaker at the online workshop titled “Spatial Collective Ideas and Designs During the Pandemic Process and Afterwards” organized by Kocaeli University Architecture Department on Sunday, December 20, 2020. In the workshop, which was held open to architecture students, it was aimed to create ideas and designs based on spatial fictions for during the pandemic process and afterwards. In this context, Assist. Prof. Hasgül's presentation titled "Physical and Social Transformation of Use Practices in Housing Space Before and After the Pandemic" before the workshop productions revealed the change in the housing space during the pandemic process. The changes in the use of balconies, terraces and gardens in the home environment and the analysis of specific approaches were discussed.

The Logistics Club organized a webinar titled "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow in Logistics" on Thursday, December 24, 2020. Logistics Club Advisor Lecturer Ayşegül Kılıç was the moderator of the event, where Gökbora Transport and Trade Corporation Aegean Region Deputy Manager Zafer Kamış was the speaker. Students of the Logistics Program, of Air Logistics Program and of Foreign Trade Program attended the seminar.

Assist. Prof. Hazalpapuççular, an academic at the Department of International Relations, was deemed eligible to win the Max Weber Stiftung Gerald D. Feldman Grant (2021-2022) scholarship with the topic “The Lausanne Conference: Diplomacy in a Transnational Setting”.

International CEO (Communication, Economy, Organization) Social Sciences Congress hosted by Bosnia and Herzegovina Gorazde University and it was held in cooperation with International Vision University, Nişantaşı University, Central Asian American University, Muş Alparslan University, Cyprus West University, Bolu Abant İzzet Baysal University and CEO Technology Development Center (TEKMER). At the congress held between 18-20 December 2020; Lecturer Tuğba Çedikçi Fener, Head of Health Institutions Management Program at IKU Vocational School, presented her paper titled “The Effect of Institutional Culture on Total Quality Management Success”.

The book "A Transnational Account of Turkish Foreign Policy" edited by Assist. Prof. Hazalpapuççular, an academic from the Department of International Relations, has been published.

The workshop titled "How Can I Improve My Digital Learning Skills?" that was prepared by Kültür Point was held within the scope of "Life Culture Academy Now and in the Future".

In the workshop held under the management of Mücella Ezgin, Deputy Head of the Kültür Point Unit, the digital competencies that should be possessed in the changing world with digital technologies and the digital talent gap in the world were mentioned.

In the workshop program, which emphasized that digital skills will constitute the most important step for a successful career in the 21st century, students were shown digital applications that will increase efficiency in both their education and business lives. The most needed digital competencies all over the world were introduced and suggestions were given on how to improve them.

Turkey Team Technologies (T3) Foundation, one of the countries chosen by fifty entrepreneurs from across Şaik Sener, met on Thursday, December 17th at 20:00 Istanbul Kultur University students. Speaking at the event organized by Asimov Technology Club, Şener answered questions about TEKNOFEST.

Şaika Şener, who designed an upper extremity rehabilitation robot for Parkinson's Patients with the support of “TÜBİTAK 2209-A” by bringing Biomedical Engineering and Electrical and Electronics Engineering together at a common point, introduced medical technology through her project.

The conversation, in which competitions within TEKNOFEST were also discussed, was the second event organized by Asimov Technology Club.

For future events, you can follow Asimov Technology Club on their social media accounts (@ikuasimov) and become a member of the club through the registration form.

Within the scope of the international research Project titled "Ultranationalist Mobilisation and Pathways to Radicalisation" by Çağla Gül Yesevi a faculty member of the Department of International Relations, As online with the participation of representatives of civil society organizations and political parties "Conservative Nationalist Organization Workshop in Turkey" was held on December 1 2020.

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In cooperation with the Department of Foreign Languages and the Professional Development Unit, pilates workshops will be held on Saturday, December 26, 2020, between 14.00-15.00 on CATS accompanied by Instructor Ebru Batıkan.

Vocational School (MYO) will organize an event titled “TEA AND COFFEE MEETINGS-3” in order to increase the motivation of students during the pandemic period. The event, in which Lecturer Gözde Bircan and Lecturer Emine Anık will be the moderators, will be held on Saturday, December 26 at 20:00 via CATS.

Vocational School (MYO) will organize an event titled "IKU Vocational School New Year Meeting" on the Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application at 19:00 on Sunday, December 27, in order to motivate students.

The Vocational School will organize an e-seminar titled "Golden Rules for Investing in the Stock Exchange" to provide students with information about capital markets and the stock market. The event in which Turkey Capital Markets Union Education Manager Dr. Gökhan Büyükşengür will be the speaker, will be held on Tuesday, December 28 at 20.30 over Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application.

Vocational School will organize a webinar titled “Corporate Communication and Branding” to inform students about PR, social responsibility projects, university collaborations and events. The event, in which E-Bebek Corporate Communications Specialist Melisa Ece Taner will be a speaker, will be held on Tuesday, December 29 at 19:00 on Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application.

The Banking and Insurance Program will hold a new year party on Wednesday, December 30, at 09:00 on CATS Meetings with the participation of students and academicians.

IKU Faculty of Science and Letters continues to organize "Coffee Excuse Meetings" in order to share the important studies in the field of Basic Science and Social Sciences in terms of research and analysis. The e-seminar titled "Film and Literature", in which Assist. Prof. Özlem Gülgün Güner, one of our academicians in the Department of English Language and Literature, will be a speaker, will be held on Wednesday, December 30 between 15.00-17.00 on the CATS platform.

Vocational school organizes a "MICROSOFT TURKEY PEAK UP ONLINE EDUCATION WEBINAR SERIES" in order to give students competence in subjects such as microsoft office, code writing, simulation and 3d processes. The event, where PEEKUP Senior Business Consultant Hande Tarhan will be the moderator, will be held on Friday, January 1, at 10:00 on Microsoft Teams.

I was born in Istanbul in 1989. I graduated from Yıldız Technical University, Department of Business Administration in 2011. Since 2018, I have been doing a PhD at Yıldız Technical University, Department of Business Administration. I have been working as a research assistant in the Business Administration Department of Istanbul Kültür University for 4 years.

I wanted to be an academic since I was an undergraduate student. I was also aware that theory and practice nourished from each other. Therefore, I did not start my graduade education immediately after graduation. I continued for a while to get to know the private sector at the company I worked forI started my graduate education at Yıldız Technical University at a time when I felt I was ready. At the same time, I was following academic staff. In 2016, Istanbul Kültür University opened a staff. I applied and I was entitled to take the exam. I started to work as a Research Assistant by providing the necessary conditions for academic staff. I can say that Istanbul Kultur University became the school that made my dreams come true.

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