GRF Young Scholars Program, First Part of the 2018 Term

The first part of the 2018 term of GRF Young Scholars Program, the program for Turkish undergraduate students from the prominent universities of Turkey and the world, took place on June 1-2-3, 2018 at the Robert College.

Throughout the sessions led by GRF Vice-Chairman and President Memduh Karakullukçu, the discussions were based on the articles written by leading academics and intellectuals of the world, and were held with the active as well as sustained participation of the students.

During the remaining sessions, GRF Members; Professor of Political Science and Former Rector at Bilgi University Prof. Dr. İlter Turan, Former Undersecretary of MFA Ambassador (R) Özdem Sanberk, and International Finance Corporation (IFC) Legal Counsel Mr. Turgut Cankorel gave presentations and shared their assessments on “End of Liberal Values?”, “Foreign Policy Problems”, and “Legal Methodology”, respectively.

Participants: Serkan Çakır (King’s College London), Ahmet Erdem Çetintaş (Boğaziçi University), Ferhat Melih Dal (Boğaziçi University), Fatih Dinç (Boğaziçi University), Zeynep Ekinci (Galatasaray University), Can Gemici (Boğaziçi University), Barış Burak Güneş (Boğaziçi University), İpek Güney (University of Pennsylavia-Wharton ), Alara Hancı (Tufts University), Lal Karaaslan (Columbia University), Zeynep Karacan (Yale University), Irmak Ekin Karel (Freie Universität Berlin), Hülya Köşematoğlu (Harvard University), Pınar Özcan (Galatasaray University), Nursena Sağır (Istanbul Technical University), Şeyda Takış (Cornell University), Dilan Tulan (Koç University).