IPC hosted the first meeting of the "Perspectives on Asia” seminar series, "A Japanese Perspective on Turkish–Japanese Relations (Türk–Japon İlişkilerine Japon Perspektifinden Bir Bakış)" initiated by IPC Senior Scholar Altay Atlı. The event was held on September 23 at IPC Karaköy with the participation of  Prof. Dr. Selçuk Esenbel as speaker and Altay Atlı as moderator.

Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (POLIS) Professor of International Relations and Adjunct Faculty Member at Sabancı University’s Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (SSBF), Prof. Dr. Ayşe Zarakol, organized a conference titled “World Politics in the 21st Century in the Shadow of Artificial Intelligence,” which took place on September 17 at IPC Karaköy.

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.