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.

The 5th episode of the Postane podcast series “Searching for a Cosmopolitan City in a Neighborhood: Bereketzade” titled "The Istanbul Policy Center" has been released. In the episode featuring Cana Tülüş Türk as a guest, the discussion centered on Minerva Han—originally built as the Athens Bank in 1913 and later known as Deutsche Bank—its transformation, the evolving fabric of Beyoğlu, and the connection between thought and the neighborhood in Bereketzade.

To listen: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6C2LHV1ikf1D3OYOp7g7vg

To watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?

The Welcoming of the 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellows was held on October 16 at  Sakıp Sabancı Museum with the Keynote Speech “Looking Ahead: Turkey, Europe and the War in Ukraine” by Prof. Ivan Krastev. The speech was followed by welcoming remarks of IPC Director Senem Aydın-Düzgit, Stiftung Mercator Executive Director Wolfgang Rohe and Vice President of Sabancı University Mehmet Yıldız. The event concluded with a movie screening that introduced the 2025/26 Mercator-IPC Fellows Ali Baydarol, Burcu Karakaş, Damla Bayraktar Aksel, Moritz Zackariat, Francesco Pasta, Sedat Gündoğdu and Jacopo Franceshini.

Pleace click here to watch the introduction video of our researchers. 

2025 Mercator-IPC Visiting Senior Fellow Ivan Krastev was hosted by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Sabancı University to give a seminar talk titled “The return of the future and the last man: politics of demographic imagination,” moderated by Meltem Müftüler-Baç, Dean of the FASS at Sabancı University on Tuesday, October 14, 2025.

The first event in the series of events organised by IPC to mark the tenth anniversary of the Paris Agreement, entitled "Climate Policy Research Meeting", took place on 7 October at the IPC Karaköy.

IPC organized the book launch for the edited volume "Reading Istanbul in Literature," which featured Alara Çakmakçı, Hasan Turgut, Nedret Öztokat Kılıçeri, Seda Yücekurt Ünlü, Selin Gürses Şenbay, Stefo Benlisoy, Şehnaz Şişmanoğlu Şimşek as speakers and was moderated by Seval Şahin, on October 2 at IPC Karaköy.

Initiative organized an event entitled "Turkish-German Dialogue on a Socially Just Transport Transportation" convened by 2024/25 Mercator-IPC Fellow Johanna Wietschel with the participation of Murat Şenzeybek, Matthias Runkel, and Gürkan Günay on September 25 at IPC Karaköy.

The event jointly organized by ETTG, Stiftung Mercator, IDOS and IPC, titled: "New Directions in Development: Comparing the Engagement of Turkey, the EU, and China with the Global South." on September 15-16 at IPC Karaköy. 

The thirtyfirst of the Climate Café Talks series took place with 2024/25 Mercator-IPC Fellow Onur Özmen's talk on ''A Critical Realist Philosophical Perspective on Climate Change (İklim Değişikliğine Eleştirel Gerçekçi Felsefe Perspektifinden Bir Bakış)" on September 10 at IPC Karaköy.

Please click here for more information about the Climate Cafe Talks.