{"id":11645,"date":"2026-11-03T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T06:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11645"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:03:32","slug":"tedxbilkent-2026-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11645","title":{"rendered":"TEDxBilkent 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>TEDxBilkent 2026 took place on October 24 at the Bilkent Odeon under the theme \u201cK\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131m\u201d (Spark). Organized by the TEDxBilkent club, the independently run event brought together speakers from a range of fields to share ideas, experiences and perspectives. This year\u2019s speakers were N\u00fckhet Duru, Yusuf Dike\u00e7, Somer Sivrio\u011flu, \u00d6zg\u00fcr G\u00fcnayd\u0131n, Nam\u0131k Ekin, Metanet Askerova and H\u00fcnkar Mutlu. They included Olympic sport shooter Yusuf Dike\u00e7, a silver medalist at the Paris 2024 Games; chef and restaurateur Somer Sivrio\u011flu, a Bilkent Tourism and Hotel Management graduate and MasterChef T\u00fcrkiye judge; and N\u00fckhet Duru, a leading voice in Turkish pop music for more than 50 years. Also on the program were Guinness World Record holder Nam\u0131k Ekin, educator and entrepreneur Metanet Askerova and TRT Spor commentator H\u00fcnkar Mutlu. The program also featured a Madrigal concert. As part of this year\u2019s event, one Bilkent student, selected through an open application, gave a talk on the TEDxBilkent stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11648\" width=\"454\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8194-165x109.jpg 165w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 454px) 100vw, 454px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11649\" width=\"342\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/IMG_8299-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 342px) 100vw, 342px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEDxBilkent 2026 took place on October 24 at the Bilkent Odeon under the theme \u201cK\u0131v\u0131lc\u0131m\u201d (Spark). Organized by the TEDxBilkent club, the independently run event brought together speakers from a range of fields to share ideas, experiences and perspectives. This year\u2019s speakers were N\u00fckhet Duru, Yusuf Dike\u00e7, Somer Sivrio\u011flu, \u00d6zg\u00fcr<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=11645\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11646,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,232,224],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645"}],"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=11645"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11650,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11645\/revisions\/11650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}