Samandağ Living Heritage
The international community-led planning workshop on “Samandağ Living Heritage” which was co-initiated by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Francesco Pasta took place between 13–18 April 2026 in Samandağ, in Hatay province, one of the cities most affected by the 2023 earthquakes.
Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi
IPC Director Senem Aydın-Düzgit attended the Raisina Dialogue in New Delhi on 5–7 March 2026, one of the world’s leading forums on geopolitics and geoeconomics.
Brown Bag Seminar:The Energy Transition in Germany: Outlook for 2026
The eighth Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Moritz Zackariat titled "The Energy Transition in Germany: Outlook for 2026" on February 25 at IPC Karaköy.
Artificial Intelligence and Society: Prejudice
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.
The 2025 Activity Report is published!
The 2025 Activity Report is a selection of some of the most important projects, events, and publications in the six research clusters of IPC. To read 2025 Activity Report please click here.
Reading Istanbul in Literature -The Voices of the House with Purple Grapes: Memory, Identity, and the Construction of History
IPC organized the event "Reading Istanbul in Literature - The Voices of the House with Purple Grapes: Memory, Identity, and the Construction of History (İMor Salkımlı Ev'in Sesleri: Hatıra, Kimlik ve Tarih İnşaası" which featured Alara Çakmakçı as speaker and Şerif Eskin as moderator on January 7 at IPC Karaköy.
PARIS +10: Climate Policy Research Meeting 2
IPC organized the second event in the series Paris +10 to mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement. The event "The Paris Agreement in Its Tenth Year and Beyond (Onuncu Yılında Paris Anlaşması ve Ötesi)" was held on December 16 at IPC Karaköy.
Fast Fashion, Climate, Plastic, and the Future of Textiles
Initiative organized the event “Fast Fashion, Climate, Plastic, and the Future of Textiles” convened by the 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Sedat Gündoğdu with the participation of Selin Uğurtaş, Urska Trunk, İlkan Özkan, Cansu Sipahi, Beysu İnal Şenermen, Aslı Odman, İpek Yalçın Enis, and İlkşen Dedeoğlu Demiray on December 10 at IPC Karaköy.
Cities and Human Mobility: A Turkey-Mexico Dialogue on Economic Integration
Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative in collaboration with Friedrich Naumann Foundation Türkiye hosted the closed roundtable discussion on "Cities and Human Mobility: A Turkey-Mexico Dialogue on Economic Integration" on December 2 at IPC Karaköy, Istanbul.
Turkey-European Union Relations on the 20th Anniversary of the Accession Negotiations
Political Ecology, in Turkey and the World - A Post-Capitalist Journey in Tackling Ecological Problems
Reading Istanbul in Literature - Encompassing the World: Portraits of Halide Edib in the Archives
IPC organized the event titled "Reading Istanbul in Literature: Encompassing the World: Portraits of Halide Edib in the Archives," which featured Şerif Eskin as speaker and was moderator by Seval Şahin, on November 19 at IPC Karaköy.