Assistant Professors \u0130brahim Sarpkaya, Mustafa Ordu and Fatih \u0130nci from Bilkent University\u2019s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) were featured on TRT 1\u2019s \u201cReturn to the Homeland\u201d (Yurda D\u00f6n\u00fc\u015f) program, where they share their inspiring stories of scientific pursuits abroad and their return to T\u00fcrkiye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
After conducting groundbreaking research at some of the world\u2019s most prestigious universities and research institutions\u2014including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Boston University and George Washington University\u2014these scientists chose to return to T\u00fcrkiye to continue their work at Bilkent. Assistant Professors \u0130brahim Sarpkaya, Mustafa Ordu and Fatih \u0130nci from Bilkent University\u2019s National Nanotechnology Research Center (UNAM) were featured on TRT 1\u2019s \u201cReturn to the Homeland\u201d (Yurda D\u00f6n\u00fc\u015f) program, where they share their inspiring stories of scientific pursuits abroad and their return to T\u00fcrkiye. After conducting groundbreaking research at some[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9850,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,206,193],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839"}],"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=9839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9851,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9839\/revisions\/9851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
In the program, Dr. Sarpkaya, Dr. Ordu and Dr. \u0130nci share their personal and professional journeys, their passion for science and their contributions to the growing movement of reversing brain drain from T\u00fcrkiye. The episodes are available on TRT 1\u2019s pages or in full here:\u2008 https:\/\/unam.bilkent.edu.tr\/2025\/12\/02\/unam-trt-1-yurda-donus-programinda-bilimin-izinde-ilham-veren-hikayeler\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"