Note: The statistics belong to Monday, April 13 - 16.00.

Our Honorary President of the Board of Trustees, Master of Engineering Fahamettin Akıngüç, the Founder of Kültür Educational Institutions, published a manifesto on the agenda.

Dear members of Kültür Family; dear colleagues, teachers, graduates,

When I start like this, I feel that we have established not only a school, a business, but a family in 60 years. In these days that we are surrounded by social distance, economic measures, risks that increase our anxieties about the future, it is nice to be a family.

I hope your health is okay; both you and your loved ones. We are all like in an exam whose questions came from the parts we don’t expected. I hear similar sentences from the people I speak; "I have never seen anything like this", "I've never experienced anything like this before", "I wouldn't have guessed that much.”

If we take my studentship into account, 80 years have passed in the world of education. I think that during this time, my path crossed with more than a thousand teachers. Each of them had different aspects and each was precious. But when I look back,I see that the most essential teacher is life itself. The fact that the pandemic we face nowadays is one of the lessons life gives us.

Life is an interesting teacher. It is against memorization. His lesson cannot be passed without thinking, researching, questioning. It is just as fair, but… The grades are not limited, although the exams are difficult; always gives high grades to those who study, honest, and work.

Son, know that these days are life lessons. With the curriculum of the school, with parents, we can pass this threshold to a certain extent. Neither miracle nor superstition. None of them are useful in this exam. It takes effort to live in the world, we have to do our best.

I am a person who has spent my university and youth years in the gray climate of World War II. I received my diploma in years when the earth was war-weary. At that time, the struggle was against the pandemics that spreading from the mind, not from the human body. Genocide, hunger, nuclear weapons ...

It was very difficult for millions of people; it left deep wounds in every country; it hurt, but they all passed. If we look at the world we live today,  it will be discussed whether we learn something from

The end of my 20s. I had my engineering diploma, I got to work. I had been a contractor. I was working really hard but it's worth it. Everything was going as I expected. But in August 1958, something that we ignored and said would not happen, just came alive. An economic break… The word devaluation entered our life for the first time. It was hard to say and hard to experience too. The depreciation of the Turkish lira, without exception, drove everyone to a great bottleneck. So what was my difference? Nothing. I was on the same boat with everyone, just like I am today. The economy turned into a trap that year. I should have made a decision. it's not even a matter of discussion for me to stop, run away, or ignore it. Doubt, anxiety, fear, wish… I left these four words then. I had to protect myself, my health, my family, and most importantly, my hope. I turned my course and sailed to a new horizon. The sail in the emblem of cKültür  is very meaningful for me for this reason.

Schooling was another area that I trust myself most after engineering, and I believe that I can do it with passion. I had started all my preparations, even though there were minor roughness, technically everything was fine for me.  But the country or the world does not always conform to our calendar, our normal. On May 27, 1960 the first military coup  took place in Turkey. The season was spring, but other shades of green were prevailing on the streets, and the footsteps of martial law echoed in our homes where we pulled its curtains tightly. I were at home, but I did not turned in upon myself.  I did not leave my plans for the spring of another year.  In the same year, Kültür College was officially established on September 26, 1960, after 3 months and 30 days from the conflict. Revolution was on friday; it was a Monday, I established Kültür College. There were other dates like this; ended with successes, challenges, losses or gains. There were also the events that I said I would behave more different if they happened now. For example, my school, which gives seeds even in the shadow of the conflict, came the day, I had to close it for 2 years due to the political conditions of the country. However, I have never interpreted all this as a misfortune. I interpreted each one as a life lesson that allows me to understand the value of my loved ones and my family who made me who I am.

Outbreaks, wars, natural disasters, economic crises… Each one is the facts of the world that we find difficult to accept. These days will pass. Our patience will be hard, our body will be tired of stopping, and our mind will be tired of questioning. All is possible, all are the facts of the life. Maybe now is the time to put aside everything we know and take a little breath

Yes, we are physically more restricted than we have ever been. Our houses are narrow to us. However, the house is the castle of man, son. Spend more time for yourself, your health, your family, your children and your home.

April 23 is approaching! 100th year of our National Sovereignty. Children have a holiday very soon. Do not be afraid of fear and anxiety created by these days and do not postpone their joys. It is a holiday that is a gift from one of the most valuable elders who loves children. If it is our best effort to prepare them for life, to ensure that they grow up without missing anything, there is no better opportunity education to preserve hope. Let them wave their flags, read their poems, draw their pictures and sing their songs. Do not let their joy be overshadowed by the fear or pessimism that comes with the pandemic. Nobody can live as beautiful as children. There is a lot to learn from them, if we knew… They are the best part of the life.

These days will pass, son. The essential thing is to be healthy at this stage. Protect your health, yourself, family and hope. Mind, heart and most importantly, hope and courage cannot be quarantined. Keep living, without stopping!

Kültür is a big family with its graduates and members. Nowadays, I am aware of all of us in different flurries. However, in order to leave this process behind, we need solidarity more than ever. Let's turn our strength into solidarity. Stay in touch with your loved ones. With our profession, the values we share, our knowledge, our courage and our ideas, there is something to be done and a contribution that we can make.

Continue to live, to produce, to share, to solidarity ... Let's not stop, we will fall if we stop.

I wish you healthy days. On this occasion; together with my wife Gül Akıngüç, we convey our love and greetings to your family. We celebrate the holiday of our beautiful children and kiss them on their cheeks.

See you soon in a healthy days
Master of Engineering Fahamettin Akıngüç
Founder of Kültür College
İKÜ Honorary President of the Board of the Trustees

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Istanbul Kültür University (İKÜ) Bahar Akıngüç Günver published a message about the IKU agenda, which has changed with the new Coronary Virus Disease (COVID-19).

Dear Culture Family,

With our pandemic, our business and education dynamics that have changed radically began to create their own system over time. At this point, I would like to thank all of you for the dedication, patience and harmony you have shown for the sustainability of our work order.

In our meeting held yesterday at the dean level, we talked about many topics related to the new process. Our training statistics, strong and developing points, quality and standard studies regarding distance education were among the topics we discussed. In our meeting, the sentence of our Dean of Faculty of Law Mr. Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Bahri Öztürk ‘’Obligation Makes Creative’’, who translated from German, was like a summary of this process.

As the Kültür family; We can say that we have tested not only our resilience but also our creativity in education, communication and establishing new balances in the face of necessities. The most important thing is to improve our existing systems and to measure our investment outcomes. To make a comparison, I think we have provided a much smoother transition from distance education to distance education. Here; we have a 10-year corporate solution for distance education, user experience at various levels; Of course, the reflexes of our General Secretary Mr. Ender Rıza Ekici and the Information Systems and Technologies Department played a serious role. I thank them for this occasion.

Distance work is a process that we have never experienced so far, because of the nature of our work, at this intensity and level. I would like to mention that I found some headlines from the notes of Merih Pınar Birgi, our Head of Human Resources Department, about the nature of the remote working system he shared last week at the heads of departments, in this context:

To briefly touch upon a few messages that I have removed from the presentation of our IKU Department and believe that we should all internalize them, I would like to first point out: remote work; a type of performance based on governance, with a high level of self-discipline. This is a fact that we all need to internalize. In this working style; Consensus, sharing and trust are the most important factors between the manager and the team. At this point, our teammates' work and life will also be determined by our managers in determining their working hours, using defined and easy-to-use communication tools, establishing communicated goals (daily, weekly project-based), structured short and concise meetings, planning online trainings and being accessible. I would especially like to state that I trust the internal disciplines that they will balance.

Dear Kültür Family,

We have reached a point where we handle everything much more calmly than where we started and where our processes are controlled more clearly. From now on; In addition to our ongoing training and working processes, we should focus on our post-pandemic plans. 2020-2021 will be a sensitive period in every sense. In this context, one of the most critical thresholds ahead is our bond with university candidates.

We need more synergy and participatory approach than ever before in studies that will highlight our university's student and technology friendly identity. We should keep our intellectual preparation process alive so that the process of returning to university after pandemic can be carried out in the healthiest way both academically and administratively.

Dear Culture Family,

Let's try to keep the channels open to feed creative thinking in order not to miss life in our closed circuit living areas, which are the side effects of a pandemic. For days, measures covering only certain age groups apply to all of us under the 48-hour curfew announced last night. In this sense, it would not be wrong to say that we wake up to a different day. But no matter how challenging conditions and rules are; As long as our time and possibilities allow us, let's try to keep this process alive with new and different shares and discoveries. As we share a new book, an online music archive, or even a cartoon that makes you smile, the distances opened by the pandemic will be shorter.

Hope to see you on healthy days,

Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver

Head of the Board of Trustees of İKÜ

Information about the use of tobacco during the new Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) pandemic has been on the agenda since the outbreak first appeared. Scientific studies as time progresses strengthen the evidence on this subject. In a study conducted on the subject, the negative course of the disease and negative health outcomes are seen more in patients who use tobacco than those who do not. Some possible reasons are presented below:

İstanbul Kültür University Vocational School of Flight Operations Management Program was given the authority of "Flight Operations Specialist (Dispatcher) Training" by the General Directorate of Civil Aviation.

With this authorization of the Flight Operations Management Program; It has been certified that it meets the requirements of International Civil Aviation Organization Dispatch Education Regulation (ICAO Doc. 7192-AN / 857 Part D-3) and Civil Aviation General Directorate Flight Operations License Regulation (SHY-UHU) in all aspects and is an approved program in accordance with international criteria.

İstanbul Kültür University that continues the education without stopping is one of the universities that is authorized in the program in Turkey. Istanbul Kültür University has accomplished its success by working in line with its goals with its wide training staff specialized in its field. And with its infrastructure, Istanbul Kültür University has transformed its “educational faculty” into “educational authority”.

İstanbul Kültür University Vocational School of Flight Operations Management Program was opened in the academic year of 2018-2019, and it has been determined as the main goal to give students who are candidates to work in all areas of the civil aviation sector, to gain an awareness that adopts flight safety, flight safety and professional ethics as a top priority. With this vision; It has taken it as a mission to train qualified Flight Operators responsible for ensuring that all types of civil aircraft are planned, implemented, followed, managed and controlled in accordance with national and international civil aviation standards.

Club advisor by Assoc. Prof. Dr.Nebile Korucu Gümüşoğlu, IKU EXPRESS SCIENCE CLUB has shot a video titled “WE SUPPORT HEALTH EMPLOYEES BY STAYING AT HOME” to attract attention to healthcare professionals and call home.

Definite cases: Turkey (56.956), World (1,864,629)

Death:             Turkey (1198), World (115 thousand 286)

WHO Risk Assessment: Global level - Very High