The event titled “Climate Security Perception in Turkey: Towards a Just Securitization of Climate Change”, organized by Başar Baysal, IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative 2023/24 Research Fellow, took place with the participation of Rita Floyd and İbrahim Mazlum on September 23, 2024 at IPC.

The twenty-eighth Climate Café Talk took place on June 4, 2024, featuring Dr. İrem Daloğlu Çetinkaya's presentation on "Combating the Upcoming Crisis: Groundwater Management in the Konya Closed Basin." (Yaklaşan Krizle Mücadele: Konya Kapalı Havzası'nda Yeraltı Suyu Yönetimi).

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The event “Democracy in the Post-/Anthropocene — A Conversation with Ayşem Mert” took place on May 24 at IPC.

The twenty-seventh of the Climate Café Talks series took place with Ebru Voyvoda's talk on ''Climate Crisis in the Age of Multidimensional Inequalities: What Do Turkey's Household Emissions Tell Us? (Çok Boyutlu Eşitsizlikler Çağında İklim Krizi: Türkiye Hanehalkı Emisyonları Ne Söylüyor?)" on March 26, 2024.

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The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative organized a keynote speech by Prof. Dr. Christoph Böhringer, Professor of Economic Policy at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, on “Potential Impacts and Challenges of Border Carbon Adjustments” convened by 2022/23 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ebru Voyvoda on Friday, March 15, 2024 at IPC Karaköy, Istanbul.  

The Russia and Eurasia Program at The Fletcher School convened a panel discussion on Turkey's relations with the West and Russia on January 23, 2024 at the Fletcher School, the USA. The panelists included Fuat Keyman, Atila Eralp, and Senem Aydın-Düzgit from Istanbul Policy Center. The conversation was moderated by visiting research fellow Özgür Özkan from Fletcher Russia and Eurasia Program.

Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University convened a panel discussion on "Turkey and the West: Autonomy and Contestation in a Changing Global Order" with the participation of Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Atila Eralp, Fuat Keyman and Andrew O’Donohue as panelists and Lenore Martin as the chair. The panel discussion took place on January 22, 2024 at Center for European Studies, Harvard University, the USA.

The World Bank and IMF Turkish Staff Association (WITSA) convened a panel discussion on “Post-Election Turkey in a Changing Global World” with the participation of Atila Eralp and Fuat Keyman as speakers and Serdar Yılmaz from the WITSA (Governance Global Practice Manager) as the moderator. The event took place on January 18, 2024 in the USA.

IPC and Tarih Vakfı continue to organize the monthly "Minerva Talks: Istanbul in History'' series. The discussion titled ''Marginality and Space in İstanbul in the Early 19^th Century'' moderated by Ayşe Köse Badur and Ayşe Özil, was delivered by Işıl Çokuğraş on December 28 at IPC.

Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative organized an event on “Combating Climate Change Under Multi-dimensional Inqualities” with the initiative of 2022/23 Mercator-IPC Fellow Ebru Voyvoda at IPC on November 24-25.