The second event in the COP31 Explained webinar series, organized as part of IPC's preparations for COP31, took place on April 7, featuring Ümit Şahin, IPC Climate Change Program Coordinator, Anabella Rosemberg, Senior Strategist on Just Transition & Climate Justice at CAN International, and Sevil Acar, Professor of Economics, Boğaziçi University

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IPC organized the event “Reading Istanbul in Literature—Istanbul’s Feminine Memory: Reading Halide Edib Beyond the Canon (İstanbul'un Kadın Belleği: Halide Edib'i Kanonun Ötesinde Okumak)” which featured Bilge Ulusman as speaker and Şerif Eskin as moderator on April 6 at IPC Karaköy. 

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The Initiative organized the closed roundtable discussion “The German Islam Conference: Dialogue, Integration, and the Future of Institutional Engagement with Muslim Communities” convened by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Burcu Karakaş on March 31 at IPC Karaköy.

Nebi Sümer and Zafer Yenal were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “IPC-Turkey Social Psychological Well-Being Report—2025” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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IPC and Tarih Vakfı continue to organize the monthly “Minerva Talks: Istanbul in History (Minerva Konuşmaları: Tarihte İstanbul)” series. The discussion titled “The Multiple Meanings of a Monument: The Perception of the Church of Saint Irene in the Ottoman Palace in the 16th Century (Bir Anıtın Çoklu Anlamları: 16. Yüzyılda Aya İrini'nin Osmanlı Sarayı'ndaki Algılanışı)” was delivered by Bilge Ar and moderated by Ayşe Köse Badur and Ayşe Ozil on March 26 at IPC Karaköy.

The nineth Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Jacopo Franceschini titled “Cybersecurity and Healthcare in Turkey” on March 25 at IPC Karaköy.

IPC organized the event “From Farm to Table - Food, Culture and Politics Talks: Olives and Biodiversity: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (Tarladan Sofraya: Yemek, Kültür ve Siyaset Söyleşileri - Zeytin ve Biyoçeşitlilik: Dün, Bugün, Yarın),” which was held with the participation of Zeynep Delen and Alen Mevlat as speaker and Zafer Yenal as moderator on March 25 at IPC Karaköy.

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The first event in the webinar series “COP31 Insights” organized as part of COP31 preparations took place on March 17, featuring Ümit Şahin, Andreas Sieber, Bengisu Özenç and Cassimo Cassel.

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IPC event “Countering Insurgency/Terrorism: Severing the Ties Between Non-State Armed Actors & Their Constituency” with Efe Tokdemir took place on March 13 at IPC Karaköy.

Damla Bayraktar Aksel and Ali Baydarol were hosted at the "Nasıl Bir Dünya? Nasıl Bir Türkiye?" program titled “Connectivity Without Human Mobility: Turkey-EU Relations and the Political Limits of the Middle Corridor” organized by the IPC-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in cooperation with Medyascope.

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