IPC is now accepting proposals for the workshop "Ideas and Intellectuals: Alternative Histories of Turkish Foreign Policy" to be held on June 2, 2026, from 9:00–17:00 at Istanbul Policy Center, Karaköy.

This one-day workshop brings together scholars of Turkish foreign policy to examine the influence of ideas and intellectuals, with the primary goal of developing alternative narratives in the field. We welcome submissions from junior and senior scholars that connect intellectual history and foreign policy, including empirical studies of intellectual works, or examine intellectual practitioners and ideational currents across different periods.

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Ayşe Betül Çelik and Cuma Çiçek were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “Peace Process, Social Consensus, and Uncertainties” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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The Initiative organized the closed roundtable discussion "Migration Research Beyond Academia: Rethinking Engagement with Communities and Civil Society​" convened by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Damla Bayraktar Aksel on February 11 at IPC Karaköy.

IPC hosted the first meeting of the "Artificial Intelligence and Society" seminar series, "Prejudice (Ön Yargı)" initiated by IPC Senior Scholar Zeynep Ayata. The event was held on February 9 at IPC Karaköy with the participation of Hüseyin S. Somuncuoğlu and Yücel Saygın as speakers and Zeynep Ayata as moderator.

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Şebnem Gümüşçü and Orçun Selçuk were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “USA, Venezuela, and the Outcome of Global Politics” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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IPC organized the event titled "Symbolic Consensus, Institutional Uncertainty: Discourses on Peace in Turkey" with the participation of Ayşe Betül Çelik, Esra Çuhadar and Sevtap Yokuş as participants and Burcu Karakaş as a moderator on February 2 at IPC Karaköy.

The Initiative organized the closed roundtable meeting "Contested Pathways of Refugee Return to Post-Assad Syria: Insights from Türkiye" convened by IPC Visiting Fellow Nora Stel on February 2 at IPC Karaköy.

Furkan Durmaz and Eda Apaydın were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “The Arctic, Melting Glaciers, and the Global Ocean Agreement” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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Ahmet Salih Bıçakcı and Galip Dalay were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “Regional Alliances and Iran” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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IPC organized the first discussion of the COP31 Panel Series,"Venezuela, Greenland, Trump... How Will Geopolitical Upheaval Affect Global Climate Policies? (Venezuela, Grönland, Trump... Jeopolitik Altüst Oluş Küresel İklim Politikaları Nasıl Etkileyecek?)." The event took place on January 20 at IPC Karaköy, with the participation of Altay Atlı, Senem Aydın-Düzgit, and Soli Özel as speakers and Ümit Şahin as moderator.