Friday Talks

Friday Talks: 3 May and Turkish Nationalism in the Context of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

The guest on this week’s Friday Talks programme was political scientist Assoc. Prof. Dr. Süleyman Güngör. 📌 Topic: “3 May and Turkism in the…

Child Labour in Turkey: Problems and Proposed Solutions

This week’s Cuma Sohbetleri program hosted Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Eşici and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Emre Sönmez as our distinguished guests. Topic:…

Erol Güngör in the Context of the Institutionalisation of Philosophy and the Social Sciences in Turkey

As part of this week’s Friday Talks, we commemorated the late Erol Güngör, one of the leading figures in Turkish intellectual life, with respect an…

Friday Talks: The Struggle for Freedom in the Caucasus and Şeyh Şamil

This week, as part of our Friday Talks series, we held an insightful and in-depth disc…

Friday Talks: Afro Turks

As part of our Friday Talks series, it was our great pleasure to host Prof. Dr. Erdal Aksoy, faculty member at Ankara…

Friday Talks: Ethical Artificial Intelligence

As part of the Academicians Association’s traditional Friday Talks…

Friday Talks: The Global Dynamics of National Education

This week (6 December 2024), we welcomed distinguished academic Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yıldız to the AAU's traditional ‘Friday Talks’ e…

Friday Talks: The Ahıska Deportation in its 80th Year

This week, as the Academics' Union, we hosted two highly esteemed professors at our traditional ‘Friday Talks’ event: Prof. Dr. Ali Asker and Dr. S…

Friday Talks: Reading Developments in the Middle East from a Turkish Perspective

This week (17 May) at Friday Talks, we listened to Prof. Dr. Serhat Erkmen. We took a journey with Prof. Dr. Serhat Erkmen, focusing on the Gaza Oc…

Friday Talks: Reflecting on the second century of the Republic

This week's guest at our association's traditional Friday talks was Prof. Dr. Abdullah Gündoğdu, a faculty member at Ankara University. We would li…

Friday Talks – Uzbek Poet Cholpan in the Victims of the Red Wound

At this week’s session of our Friday Talks program, which our Associa…

Cuma Sohbetleri – İstiklal Harbinin 100. Yılında Türk Milli Mücadelesi

Cuma Sohbeti – İstiklal Harbinin 100. Yılında Türk Milli Mücadelesi

Friday Talks – A Comparison of Turkish and Uzbek Proverbs

As part of our traditional Friday Talks program, this week we explore…

Friday Talks – Mathematics, the Language of the Universe

This week, Professor Dr. Ömer Akın, a faculty member at TOBB University, was our guest on Friday Talks. Akın delivered a presentation titled ‘The L…