In the 2022-2023 Academic Year Graduation Ceremony of Istanbul Kültür University (IKU), some 1900 students relished the joy of graduating. At the ceremony held in four sessions at Yahya Kemal Beyatlı Performance Center on 12-13 July 2023, some 1900 students graduated from eight Faculties, two Vocational Schools and Graduate Education Institutes, thereby making the total number of graduates of IKU 34 thousand.

Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) 2023 Graduation Ball was hosted by Portaxe Baltalimanı on Monday, July 10, 2023. At the ball, which was held with the participation of our Board of Trustees & IKÜMED Chairperson Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver, Acting Rector Prof. Dr. Fadime Üney Yüksektepe and Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Gülce Öğrüç Ildız, our graduates had fun with DJ performance after the cutting of the graduation cake.

Doğa Kurtyiğit, Vice President of Student Life, Career and Alumni Counselling Unit, participated in the Erasmus+ KA171 Staff Mobility Program at Saint Joseph University in Lebanon between 3-7 July 2023.

Firstly, the university's International Relations Unit visited the campuses and gave general information about the departments, education and social activities within the scope of the program. Having met with the Student Life and Career Center under different roofs at the university, Doğa Kurtyiğit gave detailed information while presenting her work as Professional Career Coordinator, Student Life and Clubs Coordinator and Alumni Relations Development Coordinator.

The project titled “The Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Art of Animation in Türkiye: A Research from the Sector to the University”, in which Assist. Prof. Ceren Bilgici and Assist. Prof. Özge Özkök Şişman, from the Department of the New Media and Communication, participated as researchers, has been entitled to receive funds within the scope of TÜBİTAK 3005- Innovative Solutions Research Projects in Social and Human Sciences.

The article titled "AN INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT OF FOOD WASTE MODEL THROUGH INTUITIONISTIC FUZZY COGNITIVE MAPS", whose authors include Res. Assist. Oğuz Emir, a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering, has been accepted for publication in the "JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION".

The storybook titled "Birtakım Rivayetler" written by Res. Assist. Buğra Mert Alkayalar, one of the lecturers of IKU Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, was published by Porsuk Kültür Publishing. The signing day of the book, which consists of stories written by Alkayalar in the genres of suspense, mystery and horror, was held in Eskişehir on Saturday, July 8.

You can access Birtakım Rivayetler, for which historian and horror-fantasy story writer Mehmet Berk Yaltırık wrote the introduction, from Porsuk Kültür's website and other book shopping sites. We congratulate our lecturer and wish that his book will have many readers.

The documentary screening titled "From Night to Dawn July 15th", which will be held in cooperation with the Presidency of the Republic of Türkiye Directorate of Communications, will be hosted by Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall on Friday, July 14 at 16.30.

An event titled "Protection of Fundamental Rights and Freedoms as a Requirement of the State of Law in the State of Emergency" will be organized by the IKU Faculty of Law as part of the "July 15 Democracy and National Unity Day Events". The event, in which Res. Assist. Dr. Serkan Seyhan, one of the faculty members of the Faculty of Law, the Department of Administrative Law will be the speaker, will be held on Saturday, July 15 at 11:00 on Microsoft Teams.