As well as being one of the main places for scientific development, universities also play an important role in the cultural development of students. For this reason, universities represent the forward-looking picture of the countries. The university lives of the students continue with academic studies and cultural activities. While attending their classes, university students should also spare time for social, cultural and sportive activities. This is what academic life requires.
As a reflection of this requirement in our university,

IKU Student Clubs Union is established in order to allow students to spend their leisure time with vocational, scientific, social, cultural, and sportive activities. (In accordance with the Higher Education Law No 2547 article no 47, IKU Student Clubs Union, which started in 2nd of March, 1998 with the agreement of IKU Board of Trustees, aims to help its students spend their spare time with  vocational, scientific, social, cultural, and sportive activities.)

Every student studying in Istanbul Kültür University not only stays as a university student but also promotes the environment in the university, behaves as an active member of the institution carrying the responsibility of this, and reflects the privilege of being “cultured” (a student of Kültür University).
The student clubs are established according to students’ interests and as a result of their own requests and organization. Some of the clubs are about business life, while others are about hobbies and arts. As a result, the clubs in the university has a diversity ranging from handicrafts to literature, music, theatre, sports, and economy.

Students of IKU have the right to join any club they want, take part and responsibility in them actively. The students in these clubs have the opportunity to spend their free time effectively and to canalize their energy positively into different activities. As a result of this, together with promoting the students’ academic knowledge, vocational skills and thinking, we also create them an atmosphere in which they can learn teamwork, leadership, and sharing.

Student clubs present congresses, seminars, conferences and conversations, which fit for the mission and vision of IKU, as well as tours, parties, sportive games, tournaments, and concerts during the academic year.

ESTABLISHMENT OF STUDENT CLUBS
The first condition for a club to be started in out university is that;
1. The club intended to be started should be different form the existing clubs
2. It should have at least 7 charter members.
3. Charter members should have a candidate advisor.
4. The purposes of the club should be stated clearly.

The charter members who fulfill these conditions can apply to the Head of Student Clubs Union writing a petition. Together with the petition, they attach the names of the charter members and the advisor, purposes, activities, and internal regulations of the club. The application is evaluated by the Head of Student Clubs Union, and if accepted, it is presented to the University Board of Management. With the confirmation of the University Board of Management the establishment is completed. 

Once established, the club introduces itself in the campus by means of notices and information desks to enroll those who want to be members of it. After the enrolments, a meeting to elect the board of managers is held, and then the club starts its activities.

ACTIVITIES OF STUDENT CLUBS
It is required for student clubs to get the approval of the Head of Student Clubs Union for any activity it plans to do. It is not allowed for any club to do an activity which is outside the directives of the Student Clubs Union and which is incompatible with the mission and the vision of our university.

Special attention is paid to make sure that the activities of the clubs are engaging activities which would promote students’ social, cultural, sportive, artistic, academic and individualistic development, improve their creative, entrepreneurial, and investigative spirits, and help them realize these in the real life. All the student clubs under the umbrella of Student Clubs Union exercise their activities under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mahmut Paksoy and under the coordination of Namık Kemal Köse, the President of Sports Events.

Prof. Dr. Mahmut Paksoy: m.paksoy@iku.edu.tr
Namık Kemal Köse: n.kose@iku.edu.tr

ATATURKIST IDEOLOGY CLUB
Club Consultant : Assoc. Prof. Necati Ulunay UCUZSATAR (n.ucuzsatar@iku.edu.tr)
Club Chairman : Mehmet Emin Sinan

This club is established in order to fulfill the goal of a Turkey which has freedom of thought, which values Law and Human Rights, and which is fully independent, republican, Kemalist, democratic, and secular with a concept of contemporary science and democracy.

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES CLUB
Club Consultant : Lecturer Ünal AZAKLIOĞULLARI (u.azakliogullari@iku.edu.tr)
Club Chairman : Hulusi KAHYA

This club is established to achieve the following purposes in the field of information technologies:
- Providing interaction and communication between the students of IKU and business world
- Improving the dialogues and interactions of IKU students with each other and with the students of other universities
- Providing dialogues for the students of IKU with all the other educational and social institutions
- Representing the university in the domestic and international competitions
- Helping the students of IKU have an active role in the sector of information, internet, and computer
- Assisting the students of IKU in the production of new studies and technologies
- Organizing meetings, tours, parties, shows, and exhibitions for the students of IKU, and thus helping the students take part in the social life

ENTREPRENEURSHIP CLUB
Club Consultant : Lecturer İ. Ethem TARHAN (e.tarhan@iku.edu.tr)
Club Chairman : Alphan AKBULUT

This club is established to impose the spirit of entrepreneurship on our students, make them aware of all the career opportunities, widen their visions, strengthen their feelings of belongingness to each other and to the university, and help them benefit from all the activities (conferences, tours, seminars, panels, and conversations) within or outside the university.

PSYCHOLOGY CLUB
Club Consultant : Lecturer Zeynep OKTUĞ (z.oktug@iku.edu.tr)
Club Chairman : Research Assisstant Melis ÖZDEN (m.ozden@iku.edu.tr)

This club is established to achieve the following purposes:
- Enabling IKU students to understand the science of psychology more clearly
- Promoting the students’ social and vocational development
- Enabling IKU students to follow the recent developments in the field
- Informing students on project development of psychology and help them gain experiences in the realization of these projects
- Directing the students on the effective use of their attention and motivation
- Providing an environment for IKU students to promote their creativity
- Encouraging the students to develop and undertake social responsibility projects, and thus helping them develop a consciousness of social responsibility
 
INTERNATIONAL LAW AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB
Club Consultant : Lecturer Bilge ERSON (b.erson@iku.edu.tr)
Club Chairman : Kübra KALSIN

This club is established to inform students on the issues regarding international law and international relations, to organize meetings to make a critique of the recent international events and their importance for Turkey, and to follow international journals and newspapers to share information with the members.  

MARKETING COMMUNICATION CLUB
Club Counsellor: Lecturer Volkan EKİN (v.ekin@iku.edu.tr)

The President of the Club: Alper AKYÜZ

This club has been founded to make IKU students spend their time in the best way, provide the execution of occupational, scientific, social and cultural activities in the field of marketing communication, perform practical activities to prepare students for their career and discover their personal skills, develop their information on marketing communication by organizing courses, seminars and conferences that will contribute to their occupational formation and provide the sharing of information among the members.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS CLUB
Club Counsellor: Res. Ass. Özge ÇELİK (ocelik@iku.edu.tr)
The President of the Club: Tuğba KIZILBOĞA

It has been founded to provide the unity among the students of the department and carry out studies which will contribute to their practical –theoritical knowledge.
The aim of our club;
To yield a permanent unity among the students of the department, inform them about the choices of fields available for them after the education in detail.
Our basic aim is to help the students and the club members to establish their future goals via our club’s activities.

ERGONOMICS CLUB
Club Counsellor: Prof. Dr. Ahmet Fahri ÖZOK (a.ozok@iku.edu.tr)
The President of the Club: Zafer SORAN

The aims of our club;
To inform IKU students on the field of Ergonomics that is one of the basic subjects of Mining Engineering , show how to use it in application via abstract examples and create awareness.
To introduce the students in the club to the other university student clubs and provide cooperation among them.
To provide the application of ergonometric principles in all of the activities in İKÜ.

SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT CLUB
Club Counsellor: Prof. Dr Ahmet Fahri ÖZOK (a.ozok@iku.edu.tr)
The President of the Club: Emine YAVUZ

It has been founded to make IKU students comprehend basic terms of scientific thought, prevent them from being captivated by the dogmatic thought, add scientific expression and basic philosophy of the science to their system of thought, encourage them to read more, think  well and help the to gain a system of thought which critize and examine.

BOSS CLUB (YOUNG BUSINESSMEN CLUB)
Club Counsellor:
The President of the Club: Furkan AKYÜZ

The vision of our club is:
To organise qualified programmes and contibute to personal development,
To organise seminars and conferences to help the students to improve their education and provide connection with many institutions and organisations.

The aims of our club are:
To encourage civil organizations in the frame of  Atatürk Principles and reforms
To encourage the development of human rights and democracy
To encourage young enterprenurs to contribute to market economy
To provide the knowledge for the friends who owns company for their future career.
To cooperate with other universities’ clubs and spread our aims through the country
To share the reports and proposals prepared by the students with businessmen foundations and goverment youth instutitions.

ERASMUS CLUB
Club Counsellor: Taygun Seçkin ALTINTAŞ (s.aintas@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Bilgesu ŞATIR

IKU Erasmus Club was founded in 2005. It is a student club that aims to perform motivating activities Erasmus Programme.
The club is open to all IKU students who want to study abroad, improve foreign language and cultural knowledge.
IKU Erasmus Club is a member of Erasmus Student Network (ESN). Our students join meetings abroad.
ESNKültür, one of the 20 ESN sections in Turkey, has been founded by Erasmus Club. This section hosted an international meeting (South Eastern European Platform) in 2007.

PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB
Club Counsellor: Lecturer Deniz DİNÇOK (d.dincok@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Çağdaş TEKİN

IKU Photography Club has been founded to perform practical studies with the counsellor lecturers’ guidance and participation , have disscussions on photographs , reach better and nicer.
Our club organizes photography excursions to turn theory into practice, help the members’ self-development with the help of cooperation and unity among them. In that way these activities contribute to sociality and this situation attracts students’ attention.

LAW CLUB
Club Counsellor: Prof. Dr. Atilla ALTOP (a.altop@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Volkan SEÇER

Considering that law is in every aspect of our life, our club has been founded to strengthen the knowledge by organizing activities, create a legal perspective on the diary, help law students to know their occupational atmosphere of post graduation and improve their communication with each other. Our club also organizes conferences, panels, discussions and occupationally informative excursions on various subjects and fields. Meetings are frequently held with the aim of increasing the communication among the members.

SOCIAL COOPERATION CLUB
Club Counsellor: Lecturer Fulya KIVILCIM (f.kivilcim@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Yasemin BAKAN

Our club has been founded to develop the social cooperation spirit in the university, to help people who need directly or indirectly by means of charity organizations and activities. Since the first years of its foundation, our club has organized many charity organizations to help abandoned people, disabled children, schools in need, sufferers of Bolu, Körfez and Afyon earthquakes.

ASTRONOMY CLUB
Club Counsellor: Ress. Ass. Ayşegül F. YELKENCİ (a.teker@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Nuran KOLÇAK

In the year of 2003 this club was founded with the aim of bringing the students who are intrested in astronomy together to do research and studies, attracting the attention of students from different departments and informing them about astronomy, organizing scientific activities, participating in national and international activities.

IDEA AND CULTURE CLUB
Club Counsellor: Lecturer Hakan İŞÖZEN (h.isozen@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Ezgi DEMİRCAN

It has been founded to create an atmosphere for the students to express their feelings in a free way and spend their time when they are not in the class.The club also wans to help members’ intellectual development , organize activities such as conference, forum, symposiumdiscussion, that will prepare them for the future as self-confident individuals, inform them about national and international cultural and intellectual activities and support their participation, Provide academic communication and cooperation between the students of IKU and other universities in Turkey and the world. Be active in all the fields that can be associated with the terms ‘’idea and culture’’.

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING CLUB
Club Counsellor: Ass. Prof. Dr. Rıfat Gürcan ÖZDEMİR (rg.ozdemir@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Ferhat İLTER

What is KIEC?
KIEC is the abbreviation  of Kültür Industrial Engineering Club.We contribute to our members’ development via  scientific semiars and conferences, social activities and technical excursions to get to know the business world even better. Our aims are;
To help industrial engineers to take part in the community in more qualified and competent way in the direction of reaching modern civilisations level as lead by Atatürk. To communicate with other Turkish and foreign universities’ equal organisations and arrange various activities togetter.
To join or arrange national and international activities
By organizing activities such as seminars, congresses, projects, help the members gain exprience

Our vision for 2010;
To get involved in ESTIEM (European Students of Industrial Engineering and management), the biggest ındustrial engineering and business management club of Europe
To be a member of EMT (Union of Industrial Engineering Communities), the biggest industrial engineering organization of Turkey
To organize the Convention of TEMÖB (Turkey Industrial Engineering Union) at least once, the biggest student organization in Turkey.

INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS CLUB
Club Counsellor: Ress. Ass. Can Yirik (c.yirik@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Özgen AYDOS

Our club has adopted the opinion ‘Each generation must be better than the previous one’
In our day, globalism has developed in an insane pace. The new order of the world needs new strategies to win. The new order is technology and knowledge centered, based on the countries’ benefits.In this context, the new world is constructed on America, Europe and the Far East that is called the three polar trade block.
National states are becoming continental via trade alliences.(American Trade Center, European Union).
Our club aims to study on how Turkey can produce policies and strategies, maximize its benefits via its strategic location, young and dinamic population, leadership mission coming from the history, and entrepreneurship spirit.
While progressing in the direction of this aim, our club has activities such as; contacting experts, scanning resources and analysing necessary ones, brainstorming about the effects of recent developmets on Turkey.

MANAGEMENT CLUB
Club Counsellor: Prof. Dr. Güneş GENÇYILMAZ(g.gencyilmaz@iku.edu.tr)
Club President: Özgen AYDOS

Management Club aims to follow daily business and economic development, prepare future managers for harsh business life, increase the members’ qualifications and knowledge by panels, conferences, social and economic activities.
Students discover their skills and tendencies in Management Club. They share success and responsibilities with team spirit. Long term frienships start in our club with a warm atmosphere.
All the members of the club can take part in various sub-units of the club according to their abilities and demands, gain experience by joining the organizations, or carry out their own projects, develop their conciousness of responsibility, ability of multiple thinking.
The aims of the activities in Management Club
Informing the members on the business management and administration by following the developments.
Developing communication between the experts and institutions and business world
Help the members about traineeship  and employement
Arranging organisations and projects to improve members’ organisational skills
Organizing social and cultural activities such as cinema, theatre, excursion, party, festival to strengthen club spirit.

ETHICS CLUB
Club Counsellor: Prof. Dr. Tamer KOÇEL (t.koçel@iku.edu.tr)
Club President:

In 2002, Our club was founded with the idea of formation and development of ethics and conciousness in our university and announcing the ethic standarts and principles to the students, graduates, academicians and public.
Main aims of the club,
To motivate and lead the students to ethical values formation
To announce ethic standarts
To encourage ethic attitudes for the solutions of dilemnas in various fields
To cooperate with the academic, public, and private institutions, trade associations, foundations etc that consider the ethic values.

EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION CLUB
Club Counselor: Assoc.Prof. Rengin KÜÇÜKERDOĞAN (r.kucukerdogan@iku.edu.tr)

Head of the Club:
The club was established in 2001 and started working with the aims of;
Providing a wide attendance which creates an energetic atmosphere with both members and the students,
Creating platforms where young artists can make their thoughts known,
Contacting the university with mass media, cooperating with firms related with human relations and advertisement,
Providing communication between the university and the work field,
Publishing “Effective Communication” magazine and sharing it with the students in order to make them be more aware of the topic,
Organizing panel discussions, symposiums and activities,
Organizing congress which will be held each year with the attendance of people from the work field, artists and scientists and making this activity on an international basis.

SELF-DEVELOPMENT CLUB
Club Counselor: Asst.Assoc.Prof. Metin BOLCAL (m.bolcal@iku.edu.tr)

Head of the Club:
The club was established with the aim of increasing the current work efficiency of university’s students and members, making goals and creating new horizons for achieving these goals, being a leading factor to help the students to achieve their goals in their social lives which is beyond their academic ones.

As Self-Development Club,
We are aware of the fact that a person who enjoys his/her job, converts his/her enthusiasm into production, spreading this energy to his/her surrounding and is effective in his/her job is a trigger for the other people. We know that such an activator will bring about social development, too. We are also aware of that intellectual development, developing ourselves; i.e. developing people is a progress which goes through education. We can definitely feel the contribution of education on the development and conversion of people, institutions, and civilizations. Informational energy reproduces as you share it. It is our mission and responsibility to increase this sharing and interdependence.
We all consider the self-development’s converting power as a guide in order to make the information dominant in our lives. A person who is self-developed, illuminated makes meaningful contributions to his/her environment, the society and the world s/he is in. The leaders who have completed self-development, managers and workers are needed to make the dynamics of institution’s culture work. Accordingly, we, as Self-development club, are expecting to see everybody in our activities.

EBRU CLUB
Club Counselor: Namık Kemal KÖSE
Head of the Club: Derya KAVİ
The club is founded with the aim of assembling the students and learning theoretical and practical information of one of the recently popular arts; Ebru, and organizing exhibitions of their productions from what they have learned and making other students get acquainted with this art.

CAREER CLUB
Club Counselor: Asst.Assoc.Prof. Nihal SARIER (n.sarier@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: The club was founded on the basis of encouraging students in their efforts of developing their careers and planning their futures. The first aim of this club is determined as supporting IKU students and graduates for developing their career, getting postgraduate education or finding a qualified job, and being aware of and developing themselves.
One of the most important ways of career development activities is establishing the system of  peer advisors. Another aim of IKU Career Club is to educate the club members in career counseling and making them “Peer career Counselors” for all IKU students.

CHESS CLUB
Club Counselor: Namık Kemal KÖSE (n.kose@iku.edu.tr) 
Head of the Club: Tutku DİNÇER

At IKU Chess Club, educational practices are carried out for all levels with the accompany of international referee and trainer İsmet ARVİT.
With the support of the university, the club made organizations of University Sports Federation Turkey Universities Championship Contest in the academic years 2007 and 2009. Women Chess Team of the university had the Turkey championship both in individual and in team contests in the last two years.
The club organizes chess tournaments in school every year. In order to increase the interest for the chess in particular periods our national player student IWM Zehra TOPEL plays simultaneous chess with 30 people at the same time.
IKU Chess Club makes contributions to the sport with both sports activities and organizations. Age Groups National Team Istanbul Region Camps were organized with the hosting and sponsorship of our university. Also the university contributed to bring trainers into the field hosting Chess Trainer Course organized by City Representative Office.
As IKU Chess Club, our primary aim is to make chess well-known and beloved sports. We aim to improve Turkish chess sports with the help of the achievements of both university’s team and individual players in the tournaments and to make our students develop their strategically thinking skills with learning chess.

MUSIC CLUB
Club Counselor: Prof. Özer SEZGİN (o.sezgin@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: Zeynep Fakih DEMİRÖZ

IKU music club was founded by the students who are interested in any part of music, can play an instrument or want to use their voice for the aim of making music and have tune sensibility.
The main aim of our club is to develop the relationship among students, make them socialize, approve their existing talents and create the opportunity to show these. In the direction of these aims;
IKU Music Club, supports the activities of other clubs, gives concerts in the different places of the university on the days previously indicated on the schedule, organizes conversation meetings with the celebrities, make important contributions to the ones interested in music to develop themselves with the help of workshops, concerts and courses. The club facilitates the students to learn playing a musical instrument, makes up amateur groups with gathering the students.
Club members can use music studio as long as booking beforehand.
IKU Music Club is not only active within the university, but also creates the opportunity to make live performances for the other universities’ music bands inviting them to IKU Spring Feast every year. Students are made to love this part of art and develop their creativity.

CERAMICS CLUB,
Club Counselor: Lecturer Alev OSKAY (a.oskay@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club:
The club was founded with the aims of providing the students with the ability of expressing themselves in a free way with kneading materials, making them more self-confident and gaining them intellectual behaviors, and getting their own places in the society being sensitive individuals who are aware of the importance of art in the world and have the consciousness of adopting art.
IKU Ceramics Club organizes seminars, conferences, competitions, panels, workshops related to the art of ceramics. With the help of these organizations the club aims to make its members;
 develop their creativities which can be used in any part of art, increase their understanding and technical skills to actualize their ideas and produce art pieces,  make conscious decisions on art and design with the help of developed aesthetic senses, improve their capacity to think authentically, produce and try.

LITERATURE CLUB
Club Counselor: Prof. Hayati DEVELİ (h.develi@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: İbrahim KOLUNSAĞ

The club was founded with the aim of creating a sharing environment and making organizations registering the students of different faculties who are interested in any part of literature, write poems, prose and articles.
IKU Literature Club makes contributions to the knowledge of its members with panels, conferences, conversation meetings, article and poem contests, poem performances and workshops in which ideas are produced and shared.

FOLK DANCE CLUB
Club Counselor: Namık Kemal KÖSE (n.kose@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: Sermin ARİSTAKOĞLU

The club was founded with the aim of making its members and IKU students know their own culture, learn their own culture’s folkloric dances, clothes, traditions and cuisine.
The club carries out its activities with the panels, conferences, conversation meetings, and the shows that is organized both within the university and in other universities.

ELECTRONICS AND ROBOT TECHNOLOGY CLUB
Club Counselor: Res. Asst. Güray GÜRKAN (g.gurkan@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: Yasin YELKOVAN

The club was founded by the IKU students of the department Electronics Engineering in 1999. The aim of the club is to help and guide IKU students of the department Electronics Engineering in social, cultural, business and academic fields. In the direction of this aim, the studies in the laboratories and workshops put the projects of line follow robot and free robot into practice.

AVIATION  CLUB
Club Counselor: Prof. Taner BULAT (t.bolat@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: Hulusi KAHYA

The club was founded in 2001 by the students who are interested in aviation sports.
The club organizes model aeroplane courses, parasailing courses, trips to Yeşilköy Aviation Museum and contests to educate students who are enthusiastic about  aviation, introduce Turkish aviation, create opportunities to start aviation sports by making cooperation with related  institutions.

CONSTRUCTION CLUB
Club Counselor: Assoc.Prof. Murat TÜRK (murat.turk@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club:  Serda YUMUK

Who are we?
Founded by the department’s students Construction club is a community in a club form.
The classical competitive methods are replaced with the information and human based methods in this era of information. Thus, this created a change in the criteria of qualified labor and it made entrepreneurship, sociality, and actuality essential beyond having a qualified academic education. It is an inevitable fact that these qualities should be gained with the activities of clubs, professional seminars and meetings, and the cooperation with other institutions.
Founded with this aim, IKU Construction club has been effective within the university with the organizations and activities it has done. With the increasing importance day by day, these clubs have the construct of making contributions to their members in the professional fields, and provide them with an atmosphere where they can enjoy themselves.

What is our aim?
• Providing to develop the members in technical, professional and social aspects.
• Encouraging information and technological development and make them used in the most advantageous way.
• Providing to use the technical and professional information in the most advantageous way.
• Providing to make the members work together thus reinforcing the unity and communication among them within the department.
• Following the latest news in the professional field and make the members be aware of them.

Our mission;
To be an effective club from which all the students of Civil Engineering Departments in Turkey can benefit throughout their academic lives and that will make contributions to develop their academic, technical, social, and personal competencies.
The components that make up our mission;
• Academic
• Practice (workshops, firm trips, worksite trips)
• Preparing Civil Engineering Students for professional business life
• University-Industry cooperation
• Introducing Civil Engineering to work field and high schools
• Creating İM network between students and graduates
• Comparison
• Developing cooperation and communication among universities
• Organizing social activities

MATHEMATICS CLUB
Club Counselor: Asst.Prof. Çiğdem GENÇER (c.gencer@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: Hümeyra CANSIZ

The club was founded in 2004-2005 academic year with the aim of mathematics department’s students spending their free time.
The club makes organizations to make the mathematical thinking internalized, the students equipped with basic mathematics ideas, contributions to develop themselves as more modern entrepreneur, self-confident individuals, gather information about the professions from different mathematics departments and the students gain different view points, searching for the unknown parts of mathematics and sharing.

YOUTH CLUB
Club Counselor:  RES. Asst. Levent POLAT (l.polat@iku.edu.tr)
Head of the Club: The club was founded in 2001-2002 academic year with the aims of increasing the friendship and unity among IKU students, contributing activities and organizations,  contributing students’ social and cultural development, providing communication among students with cooperating other universities’ youth clubs.

QUALITY CLUB
Consultant: Lecturer Burak KILANÇ (b.kilanc@iku.edu.tr)
Head:
It has been founded to raise awareness, increase the knowledge and ensure the development in job life about quality and management systems-- for primarily members of the club and also students in our university and all people involved in club related issues—at the beginning of 2002-2003 Academic Year.

SCIENCE AND ART CLUB
Consultant:
Head: Buğra Sami BAKKALCI

It has been founded, in rapidly developing science and technology era, to improve vocational knowledge and skills that students will need at school and after school, to find a solution why art is necessary and what it aims, how it can survive, what needs attention while analysing it, why art and life need each other by organising movie, documentary, music, poem and book reading sessions.

TRIP CLUB
Consultant: Prof. Durmuş DÜNDAR (d.dundar@iku.edu.tr)
Head:
It has been founded to take the students historical and touristic places in and outside the city by arranging organizations both for entertainment and travel, to organize trips to international fairs and to arrange trips with the aim of introducing the city to the new students coming from other cities and help new comers to meet other students.  Our club gives importance to develop social and cultural relations, and compose community consciousness between its members.

BRIDGE CLUB
Consultant: Prof. Orhan GÖLBAŞI (o.golbasi@iku.edu.tr)
Head:
Bridge is a card game played with 52 cards and a brain sports. It aims at revealing what they have in their hand using a specific(bridge) language with the partner. Therefore, it requires individual reasoning, memory, instinct and psychological endurance. The interaction between the partners requires both respect and love. It is important to be respectful even in the case that the partner makes a mistake. Therefore, it makes positive contributions to personal behaviour. Our club aims to achieve above stated things.

ARCHITECTURE CLUB
Consultant: Assist. Prof. Esra FİDANOĞLU (e.fidanoglu@iku.edu.tr)
Head: Ayşe Büşra SAYINER
Architecture Club has been founded and started to function to make the students at Architecture Departments and the members of the club know each other better, and to organise activities using vocational knowledge acquired in the lessons, technical trips through the club, student discussion, films, technique/project presentations and benefiting from many more application areas so that ideas will come out and be developed. 

GRAPHIC WEB CLUB
Consultant:
Head:
IKU Graphic Web Club has been founded by Art Design Faculty Communication Design  Graphic Web Department students. Its aims are to bring students who are interested in graphic design and web together, help the other clubs with web sites, animation studies and poster design, and also to provide its members with application areas to strengten and develop their vocational knowledge.

CINEMA CLUB
Consultant:
Head:
IKU Cinema Club has been founded to bring the students who are interested in cinema together, to enrich cinema culture organising communes and wokshops about cinema, to inform students by arranging film screening, and workshops with cinema critics.

THEATRE CLUB
Consultant: Zafer KAYAOKAY
Head: Tuğçe ORAL
IKU Theatre Club has been founded to bring the students interesed in theatre together, and organise different activities about theatre. Our club performs at least one play each year.Also, to make students know and love theatre more and to train more conscious audience, it organises panels, communes and conferences. Our club does not only perform the plays in the school but outside the school so that it serves for Turkish Theatre.

YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CLUB 
Consultant:
Head:
We are aware of the fact that people who enjoy his/her work, have enthusiasm, transform the excitement into production, send this energy out will certainly encourage other people to behave in the same way. We know that such a encouragement will strenghten social development as well. We also know that the way of making investment in ourselves,in human, is education.
We can certainly feel the contribution of education to the development and transformation of human beings, institutions and society. Knowledge supply increases when it is shared. We have the mission and responsibility to increase sharing and solidarity. To meet this mission, our club organises activities which will help our club members and students at the university get education that will make them intellectual and experienced. They will also have the necessary knowledge to make important contributions to their environment, society, and the world.

DANCE CLUB
Consultant: Assist. Prof. Çiğdem GENCER (c.gencer@iku.edu.tr)
Head: Arzu KILIÇ
IKU Dance Club has been laid the foundation in the second semestre of 2002. The first and the most important aim is to make our students spend their free time and be social students.
The main aim of dance clubs, being attached to clubs’ community at university, is to increase student interest to social dances and make the university known more by the festivals and seminars on dance.
IKU Dance Club have had an important role since the day it was founded: It has developed itself with the support of university administration, and it has worked a lot to be beneficial for the university obeying Club’s Community Regulations. As a result of surveys, our club has started to give Latin and Argentina Dance courses. Thanks to the trainers, the best ones in their area, students can perform on the  festivals with their own groups.
During 2008-2009 Academic Year, the club developed itself both in terms of its mission and its management. First of all, the dance courses from the previous year started again. Also, with the aim of the club’s development, brainstorming sessions were arranged and new ideas came out. Upon students’ demand, R&B courses started; the club developed itself a little more. The performer groups of these courses started  composing new coreographies to be able to attend organization so that they will make the university known better. Our biggest supporters of our practises and of the preparation of new projects are Istanbul Kültür University and Club’s Community. Our university has provided us with a new dancing room so that we have the opportunity to work in a more relaxed environment. Also,  it means that our campus has been enriched more.
Belly Dance courses have been started after the decision taken in the following meetings. Like the other dance courses, our course started with the best trainers in belly dancing.

FANS CLUB
Consultant: Namık Kemal KÖSE (n.kose@iku.edu.tr)
Head: Burak SEVİŞ
It has been founded to bring our students together, make them conscious sports audience and be model with their behaviour to other people.
Our club has different parts composed by each sport club’s fans. These are “KÜLTÜRLÜ ASLANLAR, ÜNİFEB İKÜ’LÜ KANARYALAR, ÜNİBJK İKÜ’LÜ KARTALLAR, ULTRASLAN KÜLTÜR ÜNİ, KÜLTÜRLÜ TATANGALAR, KÜLTÜRLÜ TS, KÜLTÜRLÜ YİĞİDOLAR. In the club, all branches are in cooperation with each other, support each other with the activities, panels and communes they organise, and they watch league matches on television, and make constructive discussion after the matches. IKU Fans Club is the first club keeping the same distance with each fan, and acts on respect, tolerance and fair play.

SPORTS CLUB
Consultant: Namık Kemal KÖSE (n.kose@iku.edu.tr)
At Istanbul Kültür University, sports activities are carried out by the Sports Club, founded under Student Club Community .
University management always supports and encourages sports activities, foundation of clubs, attending and arranging organisations.
Sports activities at our university are carried out under the supervision of the Vice Rector and the Head of Student Club Community Assist Prof. Mahmut Paksoy, by the consultance of Namık Kemal KÖSE and by professional trainers.
Our club’s aim:
Bringing IKU students, academic and managerial staff together under a shared interest that is sport,  it aims to develop institution spirit,
To make sport indispensible in their daily life,
To establish unity and cooperation between Faculty Departments, to help them develop positive behaviors, and meet their performance needs.
To represent IKU at interuniversity sports organizations.
The first aim of the organizations arranged for just IKU students is to make them sportive students.

The sports activities are;
Athletics
Billiard
Basketball
Climbing
Camping and trekking
Football
Futsal
Beach Football
Karate
Skiing
Motor sports
Scuba diving
Rugby
Tennis
Volleyball
Paragliding
Sailing