The Initiative held the Final Evalution Meeting with our 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellows on September 11 at IPC Karaköy. The event featured presentations of reseearch project results by fellows. The presentations were followed by the fellows' evaluations of the program in terms of its objectives, impact, and future direction. A farewell dinner marked the conclusion of the 2025/26  fellowship cohort.

The twelfth Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellow Damla B.Aksel titled "Policies and Politics of Migration from Germany" on June 17 at IPC Karaköy.

The eleventh Brown Bag Seminar organized by the Initiative featured a presentation by 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Short-Term Visiting Fellow Dénes Jäger titled "The State of Open Data in Turkey" on May 12 at IPC Karaköy.