BY SAİDA RUSTAMOVA (CTIS/IV) Name: Sara Zebardast Department: CTIS/IV Country of Origin: Iran What were your first impressions about Türkiye? Having visited Türkiye several times before enrolling at Bilkent, I already felt quite at home in the country. What do you like best about Bilkent and Türkiye? What I appreciate most about Bilkent and Türkiye is the beautiful natural environment. The campus is[Read More…]
BY PELİN SU UZUNCAGİL (AMER ’25) Jedediah Allen is an assistant professor in the Bilkent Psychology Department. He received his BS from Simon Fraser University in Cognitive Science, his MS from Lehigh University in Cognitive Psychology and his PhD in Developmental Psychology & Cognitive Science in 2012. He worked as[Read More…]
Name: İbrahim Akram Department: PHYS/I Country of Origin: Pakistan What were your first impressions about Türkiye?Türkiye is insanely beautiful! When I first arrived, I went straight to İstanbul. I was completely overwhelmed by how much history is packed into every corner. It felt like home, like I was back in[Read More…]
BY EZHAN SHAREEF (CTIS/II) Name: Aykhan Hashim-Zada Department: CTIS/II Country of Origin: Azerbaijan What were your first impressions about Türkiye? When I first arrived in Türkiye on August 30th, I found myself in Kızılay, and honestly, I had no idea what I was walking into. I was completely unaware that it was National Victory Day, so[Read More…]
BY PELİN SU UZUNCAGİL (AMER ’25) Elif Gökşen Köstem is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law in Bilkent University. She specializes in criminal law, criminal procedure law and international criminal law. She worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and she practiced law as a criminal[Read More…]
Name: Anastasia Denisenko Department: COMD/II Country of Origin: Russia What were your first impressions about Türkiye? Unlike many other Russians, I didn’t get my first taste of Türkiye on a casual vacation in an all-inclusive hotel in Antalya. In fact, I first came here as an exchange student in 2021.[Read More…]
Name: Sagda Elfadil Hassan AbdelhalimDepartment: GRA/IVCountry of Origin: SudanWhat were your first impressions about Türkiye?I had my first impressions of Türkiye on registration day in 2021. I got off a flight and headed directly to Bilkent. On the way, I enjoyed the cool breeze, as it was a welcome change[Read More…]
Asst. Prof. Matthew Thomas Stoltz, a faculty member in the Cultures, Civilizations and Ideas Program, earned his PhD in German Studies from Cornell University in 2019. His research focuses on 18th-century intersections between aesthetics, theology and literature, with an emphasis on German intellectual traditions. Recent publications include Romantic Figurations (İstanbul[Read More…]
BY PELİN SU UZUNCAGİL (AMER/IV) Yaghoub Heydarzade is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics. He received his MS from Shahid Beheshti University in Gravitation & Cosmology in 2013 and PhD from Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University in Theoretical Physics in 2018. He instructs courses such as MATH 225 (Linear[Read More…]
BY MAHİR HASSAN MİAN (ECON/III) Name: Santino Di Dio Department: Economics University: University of Naples Federico II Country of Origin: Italy What were your first impressions about Türkiye? Türkiye is a fascinating country with a rich cultural heritage. The people are incredibly welcoming, and the blend of modernity and tradition[Read More…]
