BY EHSAN SHAREEF (CTIS/II) Name: Sakurako Ishiguro Department: MBG/III Exchange Country of Origin: Japan University: National Taiwan University What were your first impressions about Türkiye?When I landed in İstanbul from Tokyo, the first thing that hit me was the language—everything was in Turkish, and it suddenly felt very real that[Read More…]
On November 25, 2025, a workshop titled “Creating a New Discourse in Response to Hate Speech Against Foreigners” was organized in collaboration between the IGAM (İltica ve Göç araştırmaları Merkezi), Research Centre on Asylum and Migration and Bilkent University. The event was hosted by Bilkent University’s Faculty of Fine Arts,[Read More…]
The 19th Ankara Start-Up Summit took place on November 30 at the Bilkent Concert Hall, organized by the Young Entrepreneurs Society (YES). The event brought together entrepreneurs, investors and industry professionals from across Ankara’s growing innovation ecosystem. This year’s speaker line-up included Emirhan Erdoğan (Paribu), Levent Açıksöz (Yerim Hazır Yazılım[Read More…]
On Saturday, November 22, Bilkent alumni living in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) came together at a special gathering hosted by Consul General Onur Şaylan at the residence of the Turkish Consulate in Dubai. Rector Prof. Kürşat Aydoğan and Career and Alumni Office Director Tümay Öztürk Altaş joined the gathering[Read More…]
The Department of Performing Arts premieres the first senior graduation project of the 2025–26 academic year: “No Exit,” the influential existential drama by Jean-Paul Sartre, directed by Jason Hale, chair of the department. The play follows three characters, Garcin, Inez and Estelle, who find themselves locked together in a room[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Yıldıray Yıldız of the Department of Mechanical Engineering delivered a plenary lecture on recent advances in human–machine systems at the IFAC HMS’25 Symposium held in Beijing last week. His talk focused on keeping the human in the loop, rather than replacing the human, as we develop AI algorithms.[Read More…]
Assoc. Prof. Luca Zavagno of the Department of Archaeology and the Department of History will serve as a key collaborator and coordinator of the Turkish Unit in the European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grant project titled “Byz-GOVAG—Agents of Cohesion in the Governance of an Empire: The Anthropogeography of Byzantium, 7th[Read More…]
As part of the International Cuisines course (THM 323) instructed by lecturer Elif Denizci, Czech Cuisine Week was held on November 13 at Le Piment Rouge Practice Restaurant. The event was carried out with the contribution of Barış Ak, instructor of the Food Production Techniques course (THM 244). Czech Erasmus[Read More…]
By İrem Naz Duymuş (AMER/III) & Eda Emekoğlu (AMER/III) nazduymus@ug.bilkent.edu.tr eda.emekoglu@ug.bilkent.edu.tr In our lives, sometimes no matter how much we try, we cannot make something happen. This could be a connection, a relationship, a goal—anything. No matter how much effort you put into making something happen—or how hard you try[Read More…]
The second Bilkent Chess Cup inter-university chess tournament, organized by the Bilkent Chess Society, was held on November 29–30. The tournament brought together competitors from universities across Türkiye, including Bilkent, Ankara, Hacı Bayram Veli, Hacettepe, METU, Başkent, Gazi, Karadeniz Technical, Galatasaray, Süleyman Demirel, Gebze Technical, İzmir Technology and Osmangazi. The[Read More…]
