ASBU Department of Turkish Language and Literature will start accepting students with a 30% English curriculum as of the 2023-2024 academic year. With this decision, which is part of the internationalization mission of our university and the Department of Turkish Language and Literature, our students will have the opportunity to have a bilingual education and thus complete their university education with Turkish and English content both in their own fields and in different disciplines.

Prof. Dr. Şebnem Köşer Akçapar's new book chapter "Mixed Migration Flows into Turkey and the Impact of the Pandemic: Revisiting Social Exclusion and Persisting Inequalities" has been published in The Palgrave Handbook of Global Social Problems.

During the event held with Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zehra Sema Demir, the young writers learned the importance and history of the museum in detail.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zehra Sema Demir's proficiency in history and archaeology provided great guidance to the young writers throughout the trip. In particular, her narration on the Orthostat of the Wall of Messengers, which is the subject of the Epic of Gilgamesh, enabled the young writers to gain a more comprehensive perspective on the history of humanity.

ASBU Young Writers Community organized an Editorial and Proofreading Training Seminar at the end of the Editorial and Proofreading Education Seminar.

Editorial and Proofreading Training Seminars took place on 06.06.23 in Sümerbank Chamber.

The seminar started with the opening speech of their supervisor Prof. Dr. Münire Kevser Baş. Publication editors from Bilgi Sarmal Publications and teachers from the Board of Education gave speeches and then answered their questions. 

Tahsin Emre Acar, ASBU Turkish Language, and Literature double major student, received the "Russian Government Scholarship". Under the scholarship, Acar will study for a master's degree in "Oriental and African Studies" in Russia in the 2023-2024 academic year. We congratulate him and wish him continued success.

Faculty Member from the Department of Anthropology, Asst. Prof. Emine Sökmen Adalı's two articles;

"Ankyra Rome and the Temple of Augustus in the Political Landscape as an Imperial Image" in the Journal of Spatial Planning and Design and also ''Ankara Augustus Temple in Late Ottoman Period Official Correspondence'' was published in the Journal of Archaeology and Art.

You can access all articles via here. 

Author Güray Süngü was the guest of our Faculty Dean Prof. Dr. Münire Kevser Baş's "Yakın Dönem Türk Edebiyatı II" course on Wednesday, 31 May. A pleasant conversation was held on the author's novel Düş Kesiği, which was awarded the Oğuz Atay award in 2010. Responding to the students' questions about post-modern literature, Süngü made evaluations on the intellectual/philosophical roots, characteristics and future of post-modern literature.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Hilmi DEMİR, a faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, has been approved by the Council of Higher Education to serve as the acting Dean of the Faculty of Communication. We congratulate our teacher and wish him success in his new position.

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selim Ferruh Adalı held presentations and seminars at Heidelberg University on 24-28 April 2023 under the long-term German social science project SFB933 Materialle Textkulturen (Material Text Cultures) and exchanged views on how the archival work is carried out as a part of the Istanbul Sippar Project. 

Assoc. Prof. Selim Ferruh Adalı presented "Towards the Neo-Assyrian Mental Map? The Anatolian Aspect" at the hybrid conference titled Integrated Approaches to the Political Geography of Southern Anatolia 1650-550 BCE, organised by Bilkent University Archaeology Department on 4-6 May.