Acıbadem University School of Medicine was established in 2007 and accepted its first students into the academic year starting in 2009. The Medical Education Program was accredited by TEPDAD (The Association for the Evaluation and Accreditation of Medical Education Programs) in 2016. Currently, approximately 300 students study and 600 faculty members work at the medical school. The campus features a Center of Advanced Simulation and Education (CASE) while clinical practice takes place at two affiliated hospitals (Atakent and Maslak) and two Education and Research Districts of Ümraniye and Gaziosmanpaşa. Medium of instruction at the School of Medicine is English and the education is based on an integrated curriculum. The medical education program features three phases: Phase I (Year 1,2 and 3) is integrated Basic Sciences and Clinical Medicine, Phase II (Year 4 and 5) is Clinical Clerkships and Phase III (Year 6) is Internship. Phase I also includes Clinical Medicine and Professional Skills (CMPS) which is a program designed to be an initial introduction to medical professionalism providing students with relevant knowledge and skills. This program includes applied communication and clinical skills courses designed to help students with improving their skills prior to meeting patients during the Clinical Clerkship phase. This year, a unique integrated program is added to the Curriculum of Year 3: “Transition to Clinical Clerkships” (TCC). It starts after the end of the Final Exam and success in TCC will be required to start Phase II clerkships. Students develop their clinical skills by participating in programs at the Center of Advanced Simulation and Education (CASE). CASE, with its high standard and quality infrastructure and staff, has a leading role in the development of simulated clinical practice at the local and international levels. There is a wide range of simulated clinical methods that can be developed and applied in this Center.

Established in 2005, ANAMED’s mission is to promote and produce cutting-edge scholarship contributing to the growing body of critical knowledge on Anatolia and its civilizations. The center aims to develop and facilitate research projects that are dedicated to the history, art, architecture, and archaeology of civilizations in Turkey through exhibitions, symposiums, fellowships, and publications. Located in the Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, ANAMED is near many research institutions, archives, and other scholarly facilities and thus serves as a convenient and comfortable locus for intensive study.

Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics – Division of Pediatric Rheumatology is one of the leading Pediatric Rheumatology centers in Turkey. All types of pediatric rheumatologic diseases including JIA, vasculitis, SLE, dermatomyositis, autoinflammatory syndromes, and Behçet’s diseases are diagnosed, treated and followed in our outpatient and inpatient clinics. In addition, we have been working on various research projects and investigations especially about FMF and childhood vasculitis.

In the last fifty years migration and urban studies have become well-established research disciplines worldwide. Increased attention on these issues calls for a transition from mainstream methods of study to consider a plurality of subjects. Migration and urban studies are interdisciplinary in nature and require cross-faculty collaboration. In this sense, BAUMUS addresses the need for research centers that provide opportunities for developing collaborative research approaches in Turkey and worldwide. The goal of BAUMUS is to develop research models that use theories and data to suggest realistic proposals. Instead of limiting the scope of projects to produce theoretical knowledge, we aim to create applicable suggestions and practical solutions.

IIstanbul Bilgi University Center for Migration Research (BILGI-MIGRATION), established in 2002, has formulated its mission to support new research and joint projects, to strengthen institutional co-ordination among researchers through several networking activities, and to develop reliable data based on research findings that can contribute to realistic policy and decision-making processes in migration studies. BILGI-MIGRATION has been conducting research projects and activities on diverse forms of migration (urban-rural, labour, forced, international and seasonal) and related social issues with an interdisciplinary perspective. The Center functions as an information centre for students, researchers, academicians and NGO practitioners working or studying migration and social cohesion. Since its establishment, BILGI-MIGRATION has conducted research projects on several topics including among others the researches on Euro-Turks in Germany, France and Belgium, language acquisition in the context of migration and multilingualism, forced migration in Turkey, othering processes of youth and polarization in Turkey, seasonal migrant agricultural workers, child well-being, and child labour.

Bilkent University was founded on October 20, 1984, by İhsan Doğramacı, through the joint resolution of İhsan Doğramacı Education Foundation, İhsan Doğramacı Science and Research Foundation and İhsan Doğramacı Health Foundation. The establishment of this private university was later approved by an act of Parliament. The aim was to create a center of excellence in higher education and research. The name “Bilkent”‘ exemplifies the founder’s aim, since it is an acronym of “bilim kenti” in Turkish for “city of science and knowledge.”

BUPERC was founded in 2007 as the first official Peace Education Center in a university setting. The mission of the center is to integrate transformative pedagogical approaches and socio-emotional skills based on the theoretical foundations of peace education to formal and non-formal educational settings. The center aims to realize its vision through collaborating with other centers at the university(ies), NGO’s, educational institutions and lately also the municipality and some business organizations. Planning and conducting interactive workshops with educators, NGO workers, and students, designing curricula based on the needs of the group of educators or the institution, making research in the area of conflict transformation and socio-emotional skills, organizing panels and lectures within the university are some of the activities of the center. The areas that the members of the peace education center concentrate on are conflict transformation, rights-based education, gender equality, non-violent communication, socio-emotional skills, arts-based approaches to conflict transformation, coexistence and diversity.

Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) is a global policy research institution that specializes in key social and political issues ranging from democratization to climate change, transatlantic relations to conflict resolution and mediation. IPC organizes and conducts its research under six main clusters:

-The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative
-Climate Change
-Democratization and Institutional Reform
-SHURA Energy Transition Center
-Urbanization and Local Governance
-Conflict Resolution and Mediation
Since 2001, IPC has provided decision-makers, opinion leaders, and other major stakeholders with objective analyses and innovative policy recommendations.

Energy Institute was established in 1961 on Istanbul Tecnichal University campus with the name of Nuclear Energy Institute, it was renamed as Energy Institute in 2003, to form a center for advanced research covering the other areas of energy. The aim of our institute is to make and encourage research and development projects in the broad range of energy science and engineering in Turkey. With 70 academic staff, 10 research groups, "Energy Science and Technology" MSc and Ph.D. programs, also “Radiation Science and Technology” Msc program, Energy Institute provides education, research and collaborative opportunities with partner organizations and individuals.

Istanbul Universtiy – Cerrahpaşa, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Rheumatology is one of the three largest University hospitals in Istanbul. In addition to educational activities, it is a tertiary referral clinic experienced in clinical research and care of patients with rheumatic diseases, with special in Familial Mediterranean Fever and Behçet’s syndrome

University is one of the leading Pediatric Rheumatology centers in Turkey. All types of pediatric rheumatologic diseases including JIA, vasculitis, SLE, dermatomyositis, autoinflammatory syndromes, and Behçet’s diseases are diagnosed, treated and followed in our outpatient and inpatient clinics. In addition, we have been working on various research projects and investigations especially about FMF and childhood vasculitis.

The Center for International and European Studies (CIES) at Kadir Has University was established in 2004 as the Center for European Union Studies to study Turkey’s European Union accession process. Since September 2010, it has been transformed by widening its focus in order to pursue applied, policy-oriented research, build capacity and to promote knowledge on both horizontal and geographical issues and concerns. Our objectives are to increase understanding, raise awareness, promote debate and enhance cooperation in our focus areas including foreign policy, security, regional cooperation, governance, youth leadership, and sustainable development, inter alia, with a wide geographical focus on the European Union, its Eastern, South-eastern and Southern Neighbourhoods, Turkey, the United States, and Asia. Our team includes an experienced director, 3 senior associates, 5 research associates, a project coordinator, and an office administrator.

Koç University was founded in 1993 as a non-profit private university in Istanbul, Turkey. Since its establishment, Koç University has become one of the leading universities in Turkey, distinguished by notable contributions to the elevation of education, knowledge and service both domestically and beyond.

The principle mission of Koç University is to cultivate Turkey’s most competent graduates, well-rounded adults who are internationally qualified; who can think creatively, independently and objectively; and who are confident leaders. Concurrently, research conducted at Koç University contributes to scientific development on an international scale and bolsters technological, economic and social development. Koç University consistently strives to advance knowledge through its efforts and to serve Turkey and humanity as a model of institutional excellence.

Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) aims to advance the state of the art in migration research through original and innovative scholarship, academic collaboration, and dialogue between researchers, policy-makers, international organizations and civil society actors. Based in Istanbul, MiReKoc provides a unique, institutionalized hub for migration research with a focus on Turkey and its close environment, with the objective of increasing research capacity and encouraging inter-institutional dialogue on the topic of migration.

The Migration Research Center at Koç University (MiReKoc) was founded in Istanbul in 2004 to contribute to developing the field of migration studies in Turkey and beyond. In that endeavor, the Center initially focused on funding research projects on migration issues in Turkey and Turkish migrants abroad. Between 2004-2010, MiReKoc in conjunction with Koç University (Istanbul) and the Foundation for Population, Migration and Environment (PME, Zurich), provided grants for a total of 44 research projects exploring various migration issues.

Soon after its establishment, MiReKoc also began to conduct its own research with funding provided by other partner organizations such as the German Marshall Fund and the European Commission, UNHCR and IOM. Earlier projects considered a wide array of topics such as the causes and consequences of irregular migration and refugee issues, international migration and transnationalism, the integration of migrants into receiving settings, the brain drain, forced migration, and the migration-citizenship nexus. While MiReKoc research initially focused exclusively on the Turkish context, this scope has gradually expanded to other countries and regions over the years with theoretical and empirical contributions to the larger migration literature. The Center advocates for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research on various aspects of migration.

Design is a powerful tool we use to transform our environment, and hopefully, make it a better place. More than ever as designers, but also as citizens of this world, we are aiming to design artifacts, buildings and cities that not only reflect our dreams, creativity, ambitions as individuals and as societies but are also respectful towards our world and its inhabitants. Our program emphasizes the responsibility of the designers for their impact on the environment. Our graduates will contribute to a new understanding of design based on an ethically responsible approach towards the environment and thus, will become involved actively in the creation of a better world. We envision a future where our graduates lead the way to developing more environmentally resilient ways of designing not only in Turkey but also all around the world. Our programs are shaped around the main idea that design is about creating. Studios in our curricula have a higher credit and hour per week in comparison to similar programs. We believe that the studio, where our students learn by doing and experimenting, is the center of all design education that is supported by integrated theoretical courses. In order to achieve that goal, our studios are open to the use of the students 24 hours every day. At FADA, we have developed a special program that makes creating and making beyond the boundaries of our studios. Our Design-build-studio is a summer program where our students design and build projects for schools and communities. The ‘Bridge of Dreams’ that was designed and built during the 2015 program has been published in professional architectural magazines and has also received a number of awards. Building on the success of the bridge, our students are designing and building five projects in different schools in Istanbul and Aydın. Our design-build program gives our students the experience of not only designing but also building and realizing their ideas. Also, they experience the satisfaction of reaching out and helping people through design.

Sabanci University Gender and Women’s Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) works to raise awareness about gender both within and beyond the university. Our activities are geared towards eliminating all forms of discrimination, including gender identity, sexual orientation, language, ethnic background, class and faith; creating discussion and sharing environments that support pluralism, creativity, equality and solidarity; making academic knowledge available and accessible for all, and strengthening the flow and exchange of knowledge between the worlds of academia, civil society, art, politics, and everyday life. The main principles SU Gender embraces are gender equality, struggle against all forms of discrimination, pluralism, creativity, equality, solidarity, collective work, transparency, multivocality, open communication, making academic knowledge available and accessible for all. Our 4 main programs – Purple Certificate, Curious Steps, Transformative Activism, and Gender Equality – transform, educate, empower and inspire us all. Each year we give out grants to gender-related research and awards to articles in gender studies, organize an international conference, gender awareness, and education activities for civil society organizations, foundations, associations, and companies.SU Gender is an interdisciplinary research center that supports researchers in the fields of anthropology, geography, literature, psychology, political science, and sociology, as well as the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering, and math). The center conducts gender-based research in a number of areas, develops new research projects with both national- and international-level partners, and organizes training and awareness-raising activities for young researchers.

İstanbul Şehir University Center for Modern Turkish Studies supports the creation of knowledge within the context of social sciences and humanities by its high-quality research dealing with the issues of our country by focusing on the last two centuries.The Center aims to be a resource for reliable knowledge, the fruit of independent research in order to call for the attention of the international community of scholars to the field of Turkish Studies. Its major goal is to become a center of attraction by establishing an international network of researchers and scholars from different disciplines specializing in Turkey.The Center runs an M.S. Program on Modern Turkish Studies within the GraduateSchool of Social Sciences and Humanities since and organizes national and international seminars and conferences and publishes reports and papers.Our program is supported by more than 20 full-time faculty members and instructors from Political Science, International Relations, Sociology, History, Law, Literature, Communication, and Islamic Studies as well as faculty members and experts from other fields and institutions. The language of instruction is English. We have 30 graduate students. Additionally, the Center for Modern Turkish Studies organizes short-term special programs and summer schools providing analytical and in-depth knowledge about Turkey to those who work at the international institutions and think tanks and to the policymakers.​

IPS Communication Foundation is an Istanbul-based non-profit aiming to contribute to the transformation of Turkish media towards rights-based journalistic values and to become a reliable outlet of independent news with a rights-based, multi-voice approach. Recognizing that the Freedom of Expression is a crucial pillar for journalism to be independent, competent and in line with journalistic values, it works for the realization of full enjoyment of the Freedom of Expression in Turkey and elsewhere. IPS concentrates its work in producing and promoting independent news that puts rights in its core, reflecting the voice of the rights movement as a whole, and raising and reinforcing awareness for rights among the public and provide in depth information.In the light of this goal, IPS sets its vision as a free, critical and pluralistic media in Turkey that respect people’s differences and upholds their rights.The unique contribution of IPS in the realization of its vision with its expertise and strengths is to ensure that the voices of the ignored and silenced are increasingly heard in public debate through provision of unbiased, inclusive and actionable news reporting as well as experience and knowledge sharing.www. bianet.org is the online platform to distribute and share news reporting from a rights-based perspective since the year 2001. It is the most visible work of IPS with daily production of news in three languages (Turkish, Kurdish, English) as well as release of periodic reports in the fields of Freedom of Expression and Male Violence in Turkey.

The Evrensel Newspaper is the daily newspaper of the working class and oppressed people of Turkey, which has been published for 25 years. In 2017 we started an online English version (evrensel.net/daily).

Hürriyet Daily News published first in 1961 as Turkish Daily News. It continues today both in print and online. Turkey’s first and oldest existing English-language newspaper.

Medyascope is an online news channel, broadcasting 10 hours live per day and 7 days a week. It is an independent media outlet currently employing 40 journalists with offices in Istanbul, Ankara and Diyarbakır. Founded in 2015 by journalist Ruşen Çakır, Medyascope does journalism compatible with universal standards and currently fills the void created by the absence of a mainstream media.

P24 is an Istanbul-based non-governmental organization established in 2013 to support media independence. Among its founders are three former editors-in-chief of major Turkish newspapers. This initial mission to support journalistic integrity evolved into a much broader portfolio of projects designed to encourage and defend free expression in Turkey at a critical time when public space has contracted.

P24 creates case law in its defence of journalists in both national and European courts but also defends free expression through a broad-ranging advocacy campaign (in partnership with Article 19) called Expression Interrupted. It has built an (EU funded) nation-wide anti-censorship network to provide alternatives and create solidarity among those who face gender, ethnic, or ideological discrimination. However, P24 interprets campaigning as not just protesting injustices, but coming up with proactive strategies to “use and not lose” free expression. Thus, it was a runner-up in the 2019 Index on Censorship advocacy award but also in the innovation category of the European Press Prize for content it commissioned. Many of P24’s activities are designed to mentor talent and give quality journalists and writers opportunities to exercise their craft. It also mounts a comprehensive social media campaign. One of its most successful ventures has been K24 – an online literary review, weekly updated with dossiers organized around a variety of themes.

P24 has been awarded the Norwegian Sjur Lindebrække Prize for Human Rights and Democracy (2018) and the Geneva-based PEC award for “exceptional courage in fighting for press freedom (2017).

Kodluyoruz is a social enterprise working to make Turkey a talent hub in technology sector. Our major programs and projects are:

-Kodluyoruz Academy provides boot camps (3-4 month technical and soft skills training) that prepare driven, unemployed/underemployed young people, ages 18-29, for employment in high-value technology fields. We work in around 10 cities across Turkey and train hundreds of new developers for the high-value technology sector annually in web development, mobile development, and data science & machine learning.
-Alumni Club is a lifelong learning community for our graduates, bringing youth together to find solutions to their own problems. The youth themselves organize study groups, sector talks and workshops for their career development.
-Kodluyoruz Junior provides STEM education for younger generation and women. We work with BSH in Cerkezkoy to educate 1,000 children from public schools every year. EMpower Foundation also supports us to train youth 14-16 in public schools and vocational schools.

From 2010 to 2018, at its building on Istiklal Street, Istanbul’s main pedestrian artery for culture and arts, Arter presented 35 solo and group exhibitions to date with accompanying publications, talks, performances and workshops; and provided support for the production of 183 artworks in the framework of its programme. At its new building designed by Grimshaw Architects, London, Arter presents exhibitions from but not limited to its collection as well as performances and events across disciplines, expanding the range of its programmes.

Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is a non-profit cultural institution. Since 1973, the Foundation continues its efforts to enrich Istanbul’s cultural and artistic life. İKSV regularly organises the Istanbul Festivals of Music, Film, Theatre and Jazz, the Istanbul Biennial, the Istanbul Design Biennial, Leyla Gencer Voice Competition, autumn film week Filmekimi and realises one-off events throughout the year. The Foundation hosts cultural and artistic events from various disciplines at its performance venue Salon İKSV, located at the Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building, and offers creative events programme for children and youngsters at İKSV Alt Kat.

İKSV organises the Pavilion of Turkey at the International Art and Architecture Exhibitions of la Biennale di Venezia, conducts studies and drafts reports with the aim of contributing to cultural policy development, and supports artistic and cultural production through presenting awards at its festivals, commissioning works, taking part in international and local co-productions and coordinating an artist residency programme at Cité Internationale des Arts in France, as well as the annual Aydın Gün Encouragement, Talât Sait Halman Translation, and Gülriz Sururi-Engin Cezzar Theatre Encouragement Awards.

İKSV is a member of the General Assembly of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, since 2018.

The Women’s Library and Information Centre Foundation (WLICF) is the first and only women-centred library and archive in Turkey. It was founded in Istanbul by Aslı Davaz, Füsun Akatlı, Füsun Ertuğ, Jale Baysal, and Şirin Tekeli; and opened to the public on 14 April, 1990. At that time, the women’s movement in Turkey had already gathered a wealth of documents related to the struggle for women’s rights. These documents concerned issues such as equal pay for equal work, equality in civil rights, ending all kinds of violence against women and equal representation in parliament. The collections of the Women’s Library in Istanbul are organized in sixteen main sections: Women’s Private Papers, Women’s Oral History, Women’s Organizations, Ephemera, Women Writers, Women Artists, Visual Documents, Audio Material, Posters, Art Collections, Newspaper Clippings, Books, Periodicals, Rare Material, Thesis-Dissertations and Articles. These documents are unique and cannot be found elsewhere. Because libraries and archives centres in general do not have an acquisition policy regarding the women’s movement documents in Turkey, large quantities of ephemeral material regarding the women’s movement is only kept by the Women’s Library. The institution frames and constitutes the memory of women and the women’s movement, and the growth of our collection is parallel to the development of the feminist consciousness in Turkey.

Founded as an association in 2011, SAHA—Supporting Contemporary Art from Turkey has a mission to support and to increase the visibility of contemporary art from Turkey internationally. Collaborating with museums, biennials, and other not-for-profit art institutions around the world, SAHA helps with the commissions, new productions and programs by artists and curators from Turkey. SAHA has special grants for independent art initiatives, art writing and publications; and develops sustainable partnerships with international artist-in-residency and curatorial programs. SAHA, launched SAHA Studio in August 2019 in Beyoglu, Istanbul. SAHA Studio is a co-working space and residency program dedicated to research, production, collaboration and networking. SAHA Studio provides emerging to mid-career artists from Turkey with a studio and a coworking space for a period of six months, curatorial support, honorarium and a stipend for living expenses, research and production. SAHA Studio’s program includes regular studio visits by art critics, conversations with artists and academics, collection and exhibition tours with curators, study trips abroad, and meetings for professional development and networking. SAHA also hosts international curators and researchers within the scope of SAHA’s curatorial program.

SALT is a cultural institution in public service producing research-based exhibitions, publications, web and digitization projects, as well as developing programs including screenings, conferences and workshops in Istanbul and Ankara. Aiming to offer an environment for debate and co-learning with its users and collaborators, SALT does not engage in formal arguments or favor one period, discipline or object-based practice over another.

SALT focuses on art, architecture and design, and social and economic histories. The research projects, visual presentations, international publications and local archival collections at SALT expand beyond linear chronologies, medium-based questions, and the traditional separation of fields of study.

Inaugurated on 8 June 2005, Pera Museum is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation. Through Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation's three permanent collections, “Orientalist Paintings”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures”, and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics”, Pera Museum seeks not only to diffuse the aesthetic beauty of these collections but also to create dialogue with the public concerning the values and identities that they encompass. Utilizing the full scope of innovative methods, including exhibitions, publications, audio-visual events, learning activities, and academic works, the objective of transmitting the beauty and importance of these works to future generations is realised.

All of the Museum’s exhibitions are accompanied by books, catalogues, audio-visual events in addition to learning programs. Parallel to its seasonal programs and events, Pera Film offers visitors and film buffs a wide range of screenings that extend from classics and independent movies to animated films and documentaries. Pera Film also hosts special shows that directly correlate with the temporary exhibitions’ themes.

Barış İçin Müzik Vakfı (Music for Peace Foundation) is a free music education programme for school-age children and young people, based in Edirnekapı, one of Istanbul’s most disadvantaged inner-city neighbourhoods. Working with the children and young people aged between 7-25, the programme provides facilities, instruments, and teachers for music education and performance. The programme has three-level orchestras (beginner, intermediate children orchestra, advanced youth orchestra), vocal ensembles (choir, vocal quartet, and quintet), and an accordion ensemble. The foundation’s ultimate goal is to improve social cohesion and peace through music, and it draws on the principle, set down in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, that every child has a right to participate in the creation of art.

The Network of Sport and Body Movement for Vulnerable Groups (BoMoVu) is a collective of practitioners of sports, dance, and performing arts who want to dedicate their professional talents for body movement to the field of social work. Springing from the idea that someone who has acquired well-being and mental strengthening from their own physical experience is best able to share and transmit this well-being, we set up this network to build the bridges between sport/body movement practitioners and vulnerable groups in Turkey. As BoMoVu, we believe that access to physical activities is a right and should not be considered as a luxury reserved for the affluent or physically abled.

We design short and long-term physical training programs to help people integrate into normal life. BoMoVu members develop their own workshops for the target group they feel qualified to train. BoMoVu then helps members to reach out to the target group. BoMoVu also acts as a skill-developing center as it conducts seminars designed to help sports practitioners adapt their knowledge to the needs of vulnerable groups and accompany them in the development of holistic social programs.

ERG, is an independent and not-for-profit think-and-do-tank that contributes to systemic transformation in education for the development of the child and society through sound evidence, constructive dialogue, and innovative/critical thinking. Evidence-based decision-making processes in education concerning stakeholder engagement and ensuring the access of all children to quality education are the key elements of systemic transformation.

GAR is founded on September 21, 2017 with the aim of conducting research on migration, taking part in the multidisciplinary migration research, supporting migration research and researchers, contributing to the dissemination of knowledge produced in these studies, and enabling a professional solidarity, communication, collaboration and interaction among the migration scholars. We also aim at providing solutions to scientific, institutional, and ethical problems that the migration researchers face. Last but not the least, we aim to contribute in raising public awareness regarding the problems un/documented migrants, asylum seekers and refugees confront.

Migration Monitoring Association (MMA) is a civil society organization that is specializing in forced migration, internal displacement, and human rights. The association aims to support people who have been victims of human rights violations in their search for justice, to strengthen social memory about these violations and to disseminate the truth about grave human rights violations to the society at large for the purpose of building a democratic and just future of peace, to support the recognition and reparation of rights violations, to ensure respect, protection and promotion of human rights within the framework of national and international law. Also, it aims to contribute to social peace and democracy through enhancing social memory as well as aims to research social, economic, cultural, demographic, and ecological reasons for migration.

Good4Trust is a community platform bringing together ecologically and socially just producers and prosumers. Prosumers come together around a basic ethical tenet “the golden rule” and share on the platform their good deeds. These good deeds may include charity, volunteering, goods, and services they bought on the Good4Trust online bazaar to support ecologically and socially just production. The relationship is already deepening and circularity is forming to create a prosumer economy. The platform’s software to structure the economy is open-source and is available to be licensed to start Good4Trust anywhere on the planet.

IGAM, The Research Centre on Asylum and Migration, was founded in 2013 by a group of academics, researchers, journalists, and humanitarian workers, as an independent and non-profit association to fill the void of there not being any independent research center in Turkey dealing with asylum and migration. The purpose of the organization is to contribute to the development of international refugee laws and principals and to promote the effective implementation of these in Turkey. The main activities of the organization are to conduct academic studies on this subject, support academic research, create a database, raise public awareness, organize training, and establish networks.

In its 7th year, IGAM has been cooperating with national and international NGOs, national public entities, and relevant stakeholders. Some of the IGAMs project are as follows: Keçiören Refugee Consultation and Support Hub funded by ECHO was initiated in April 2018. The daily services and information about how to reach services are provided to refugees by approximately 20 experts in order to improve refugees’ wellbeing. As a strong believer in the importance of cooperation between NGOs that deal with asylum and immigration, IGAM was the leading force for the establishment of the Turkey Refugee Council (TRC). This roof organization brought together 23 NGOs to increase the effectiveness of non-governmental organizations working in the field. The founders of the TRC, which includes an association established by refugees, held its first meeting in November 2017 with the participation of numerous non-governmental organizations, officials of public institutions, and representatives of international institutions. In the field of supporting education mostly for those who left behind (in this context, it is generally refugee girls), IGAM is conducting Gulmakai Network: Champions Work for Girls Education Project. The main objective of the project is to advocate for helping the Syrian refugee girls to access formal schools in Turkey. Since 2013 IGAM’s projects have been funded by donors like ECHO, EU Delegation to Turkey, National Agency, US State Department, British Embassy. Over the seven years, IGAM has been working very closely with international partners like Oxfam International, Malala Fund, GIZ (Qudra Programme), World Vision, Goal Global, Danish Refugee Council, Durable Solution Platform, Hopes. IGAM has been accredited to UNHCR’s Annual Global NGO Consultation Meetings.

İZEV Foundation (İstanbul Education & Solidarity Foundation for Mentally Handicapped) has been operating since 1989 and continues its activities in the fields of education of children and adults with mental disabilities, as well as their socializing, gaining independent life skills, acquiring a profession and gaining the equal right to life.It offers multi-faceted support programs for adults with mentally handicapped individuals in its center located in Sarıyer, Istanbul, conducts employment studies with its shop located at Sabiha Gökçen Airport, and conducts information activities for individuals with mental disabilities through awareness-oriented field activities. Since 2018, the Foundation has been implementing research and reporting activities as well.It aims to carry out international studies by opening representative offices in the USA and England in 2020.

KACUV enables the continuous treatment for children whose treatment could not be afforded due to financial difficulties and ensures psychological support, which is a vital requirement in the battle against cancer, and a treatment environment suitable for child psychology. The foundation was established in 2000, in Istanbul. KACUV supports childhood cancers in different ways:

• Children and their families are supported physcologically, socially and financially during the hospitilazation period. KACUV also renovates hospital rooms, makes play rooms and education classes.
• KACUV Family Homes provide accommodation for children and their families coming outside of Istanbul during the treatment period after hospitilazation. KACUV operates two family home with 14 rooms in European side of Istanbul and the second one in Anatolian side of Istanbul with 22 rooms. Families benefit from services completely free of charge like food, house cleaning, psycho-social support and educational services.
• The foundation works on educating the public and creating awareness for childhood cancer.

Karakutu Association is officially established in 2014 to raise awareness on the past injustices and human rights violations in the belief that learning from the past is crucial for the search of justice, peace, and dialogue in society. Our primary area of work is collective memory and coming to terms with the past. Our mission as Karakutu is to share different points of view about past injustices and human rights violations with the society especially with young people to reveal the narratives of ignored, suppressed and marginalized parties by the official history.

KIRAATHANE takes inspiration from the European literature house movement, was the first such venture in Turkey but has already encouraged like-minded centres elsewhere. It was founded in October 2018, at a time when the public discourse was increasingly constricted by political pressures and polarisation. Since then, it has developed a recognisable style of informal but informed debate.KIRAATHANE translates as “House of Recitation,” which in the nineteenth century referred to a well-appointed coffee house, a place to read or be read to. Like the old London coffee houses, a KIRAATHANE served as a kind of sanctuary for free discussion among equals. Today, independent publishers organise book fairs at KIRAATHANE, trans-feminists dance the tango here, readers attend lectures on neglected post-War Armenian novels. There are writers in residence schemes that bring Hisham Matar to talk about Conrad but also popular workshops on writing a family history or for learning Greek. There are lectures, exhibitions, book launches- a new event pretty much every day.KIRAATHANE inhabits a turn of the century building situated emblematically at the heart of multi-cultural Istanbul. It allows its meeting rooms to be used by other civil society organisations, has a book store and a well-frequented coffee shop.Admission to virtually all activities at KIRAATHANE is free upon pre-registration in order to attract the widest possible audience. It has organic links to K24, Turkey’s most popular online literary review, and like that publication provides a practical demonstration that individuals have a stake in freedom of expression and its defence.

KONDA, as a research and consultancy company, is fundamentally engaged with knowledge production with a specific purpose of providing insight for the specific needs of policy-makers, business leaders and academics. As the company collects data, it also processes it to suggest novel ways of challenging established orthodoxies and existing prejudices in the analyses of politics, society and the individuals in contemporary Turkey.KONDA observes the changing dynamics of society and provides analysis on social transformation. Beyond exploring the current social, economic and political situation in the country, the company makes forecasts on social waves and their future impact. Analyses by KONDA contributes to the shaping of the strategies of both private and public institutions of every scale.KONDA reports that are based on surveys and other methods of field organization aim at societal representation and offer guidance in deciphering often unforeseen social movements and momentum.KONDA’s perspective on society is not limited to the confines of politics. The company has sought and established significant collaborations with various national and international institutions operating in the fields of sociology and psychology. KONDA has conducted face-to-face surveys of more than 1 million people in the last 30 years.

Center for Spatial Justice (Mekanda Adalet Derneg i, MAD) is a registered civil society organization working with the intention of living in fairer, more democratic, and ecological urban and rural spaces; to produce cross-disciplinary work; to gather, accumulate and share the knowledge that is innovative, qualified and public. Our Center whose team consists of architects, urban planners, legal experts, artists, videographers, designers, documentarists, and social scientists, brings together transnational knowledge and cross-disciplinary expertise with local communities, to help to (re-)produce spaces and practices of hope.Against the expansion of top-down spatial interventions, aggressive mega projects, urban gentrification processes, and extraction and energy infrastructures in urban and rural spaces, we work with civil society organizations, grassroots communities, activists, students, academics and journalists. We push for an agenda to recognize the right to space and offer a common platform that would empower disenfranchised segments and agents of the civil society by adopting a wide range of methodologies including but not limited to guided walks, data visualization, action-research, video-documentaries, educational activities, and participatory design workshops.

Mültecilerle Dayanışma Derneği (Mülteci-Der) is a non-profit, non-governmental civil society organisation established in Izmir/Turkey in 2008. Mülteci-Der is a human-rights based organisation; works to protect and promote human-rights of refugees, migrants. The organisation provides its services regardles of legal status, language, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, political view, socio-economic status of the persons. The main target population of Mülteci-Der is refugees (regardless of their statuses in Turkey and country of origin), asylum seekers and migrants in Turkey. The main objective of Mülteci-Der is to protect and promote refugee/migrants rights and improve the national legal framework and its implementation to be competable with human dignity and international human rights standards.

The main pillar of Mülteci-Der activities is the provision of individual legal/protection counseling for effective and easy access to rights and services of the target population. Legal/protection activities focus not only on those refugees/migrants in rural settings but also those in immigration detention. It is one of the rare CSOs in Turkey that works on access to justice and the rights of immigration detainees.

Mülteci-Der organises informative sessions for refugees on their rights & obligations in different cities and focus group meetings with woman refugees in Izmir with the aim of enhancing their resilience through the provision of right and up-dated information and to analyse and monitor the needs and challenges, living conditions and access to rights & services of the target population.

Mülteci-Der conducts capacity building trainings to professional groups who are in close and constant contact with the target population. Lawyers, bar associations, social workers are the main target group of capacity building activities. Through various activities, it tries to combat prejudices and discrimination targetting refugees. Mülteci-Der conducts advocacy activities at local, national and European levels to advance the policies and practices in the asylum and migration field.

Association for Supporting Tarlabasi Community (known as Tarlabasi Community Center/TTM) is an NGO active in the Tarlabasi area of Beyoglu, Istanbul. TTM serves to reduce the prejudices against Tarlabasi and to empower the inhabitants of the region via psychosocial activities and advocacy with professionals and volunteers with a perspective on universal human rights, gender equality, social inclusion, and child well-being.

Since its establishment in 2007, the Association for Supporting Tarlabasi Community has always been a safe space especially for children and provided social, psychological and educational support for vulnerable children, youth and women living in Tarlabasi.

For further information about Tarlabaşı: Most of the population who came from the Southeast in 80’s and 90’s has settled at Tarlabaşı. In recent years, Tarlabaşı has taken its current form with the settlement of new, mostly unregistered immigrants from Iran, Iraq, Africa and recently Syria. 20% of this population consists of Romanis, and they often reside around the lower region places close to Dolapdere. Kurds. About 3000-3500 Iranian, Iraqi and African refugees live in Tarlabaşı. The number of Syrian registered refugees who settled in the neighborhood is around 9000. Nevertheless, the actual number is much higher when the unregistered refugees are considered.TTM aims to create a safe space for all who mentioned above where children in Tarlabasi can learn about their rights, fulfill their potential, and become socially and psychologically empowered.

CCC Turkey works together with trade unions and workers in the textile sector to ensure that the fundamental rights of workers are respected. We educate and mobilise consumers, lobby companies and governments, and offer direct solidarity support to workers and labour unions. CCC Turkey brings together stakeholders such as trade unions and NGOs covering a broad spectrum of perspectives and interests, such as workplace health and safety, women’s rights, consumer advocacy and poverty reduction. CCC Turkey is a member of the international Clean Clothes Campaign alliance, with national campaigns in 15 European countries and a network of 250 organisations worldwide.

Foundation for Society and Legal Studies (TOHAV) was founded by 46 lawyers registered in Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir Bar Associations in October 1994 in Istanbul.

TOHAV is a non-governmental, independent, impartial, non-political and civil-society organization established under the Turkish Civil Code.Members of TOHAV consist of lawyers registered in Istanbul, Ankara, Izmir,Diyarbakır, Batman, Van and Malatya Bar Associations. TOHAV carries out its activities through member and volunteer lawyers and physicians working in the field of torture and rehabilitation.

TOHAV's Headquarter is located in Istanbul. It has a Board of Directors consisting of 7 principal and 7 substitute member lawyers and a Supervisory Board consisting of 3 principal and 3 substitute member lawyers. Members of the board of directors and Supervisory Board are elected by members of TOHAV for a period of two years.

Troya Environmental Association works in the field of preventing climate change and focuses on energy production, one of the major reasons for the climate crisis, by promoting the use of renewable energy. The association aims to spread the use of renewable energy in houses/workplaces of the people in rural areas. That means an energy transition with the hand of the community. Troya works for lobbying to developing and strengthening renewable energy cooperatives all around in Turkey and in east Europe (including Georgia, Armenia, and Ukraine). The association has its own energy cooperative which is the only member in east Europe, within the European umbrella organization of energy cooperatives, REScoop.eu. For this reason, every year an international conference is organised by Troya Association. In the third year of the conference, for the first time, speakers from Armenia took stage at the conference and shared their experience. Troya also publishes some publications about renewable energy communities for cooperatives.

TUSEV was established in 1993 by Turkey's leading civil society organizations and has grown to support network of 80 associations and foundations that share a vision of strengthening the legal, fiscal and operations infrastructure of the third sector in Turkey. Among TUSEV's main objectives are non-profit law reform, research on civil society and philanthropy, promoting social investment and social justice philanthropy, and facilitating partnerships across sectors, as well as across borders.

Yaşama Dair Vakıf (YADA Foundation) was established by a group of social scientists and project management and implementation specialists in 2005 with the mission of designing and implementing projects in order to minimize the gap between “theory” and “actual life”. It aims to produce knowledge regarding the different aspects of social life and convert this knowledge into sustainable and applicable projects.Throughout the research and implementation projects, YADA has developed cooperations and partnerships with international organizations (the European Union, UNDP, UNICEF, UN Women, etc.) scientific institutions (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, METU, Ankara U., Şehir U., Akdeniz U., etc.), prominent NGOs of Turkey (STGM, TÜSEV, TEMA, WWF, Greenpeace, etc.) and private companies (Unilever, Coca-Cola, Danone, Pirelli, Koç Holding, etc.), as well as by prestigious academic organizations such as TÜBİTAK, Ankara University, Middle East Technical University, etc.Most current works of YADA focus on increasing dialogue between CSOs and increasing the impact capacity of CSOs and different decision-makers and stakeholders. Through this approach, a series of events under the name “Meydan” (Square)[1] is being conducted.Another important platform for civil society dialogue in Turkey established by YADA Foundation is Sivil Sayfalar (Civil Pages[2]). Civil Pages has been put into practice with the aim of bringing the disconnected civil society world together in an online course, making the produced knowledge and experience visible and traceable, creating opportunities for collaborations, and popularizing the notion of “civil society journalism”.