{"id":11317,"date":"2026-09-22T19:20:44","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T16:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11317"},"modified":"2026-09-28T14:50:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T11:50:29","slug":"alumni-homecoming-draws-thousands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11317","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Homecoming Draws Thousands"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The traditional Alumni Homecoming, organized by the Career and Alumni Office, took place on Sunday, September 20. Rector Orhan Ayt\u00fcr opened the event with a presentation at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts (FMPA). A full day of live performances, children\u2019s activities and the traditional lottery draw followed, giving graduates the opportunity to reconnect with former classmates and faculty members, to network and to discuss ways to support the university. The program also included the Commemorative Medal Presentation Ceremony, introduced last year and again held at the FMPA building, honoring alumni from the Classes of 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016 and 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alumni can contact the Career and Alumni Office at mezun@bilkent.edu.tr. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The traditional Alumni Homecoming, organized by the Career and Alumni Office, took place on Sunday, September 20. Rector Orhan Ayt\u00fcr opened the event with a presentation at the Faculty of Music and Performing Arts (FMPA). A full day of live performances, children\u2019s activities and the traditional lottery draw followed, giving[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11374,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,226,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11384,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11317\/revisions\/11384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}