Yeditepe University

Perhaps her name hasn't reached many of you yet. That is because she is a chef who prefers to work quietly and steadily, avoiding the spotlight. Allow me to introduce Suna Hakyemez, the head chef at Roka in Istanbul. Her story and dedication have become a source of inspiration for many in the culinary world.

Lawyer Filiz Saraç has been elected as the new president of the Istanbul Bar Association, becoming the first woman to preside over the association in its 144-year history.

The annual amount of plastic waste produced in Turkey in 2021 is nearly 5.6 million tons, according to an academic publication, which underlines Turkey as the ninth country that produces the most plastic waste in the world.

Anna Laudel presents Lal Batman's solo exhibition titled "Exposé," which includes a wide range of works from oil paintings to digital illustration and from holograms to NFT and video art produced using digital and plastic art materials.

Pera Museum presents the works of young artists and designers to its audience in collaboration with national and international educational institutions.

The life of Turkish intellectual Niyazi Berkes bridged the Ottoman and Republican eras and provides a useful window through which to explore his turbulent times. The left-leaning Berkes was invested in the Kemalist project of the early Turkish Republic, but circumstances later forced him into voluntary exile at the beginning of the Cold War.

Yeditepe University's department of gastronomy and culinary arts has become an official partner of the UNITWIN/UNESCO Chairs "Food Culture and Development" program.

Istanbul Bilgi University will organize a symposium titled "Food, Drink, Fine Clothes and the Good Things of Life: Consumption in the Ottoman Empire" on Dec. 19 and 20. 

The conference will approach the subject of Ottoman consumption during the early modern period (1450-1850) using two main avenues: Food and drink on the one hand, and clothes and jewelry on the other. 

Bedrettin Dalan, one of the fugitive suspects in the Ergenekon coup plot case, returned to Turkey in the early hours of March 10 after five years abroad, after his arrest warrant was dropped.