SDG 8

Kadir Has University fosters inclusive economic growth and supports decent work opportunities through research, entrepreneurship, and student engagement. The University’s Teknopark and entrepreneurship programs encourage students and alumni to develop innovative solutions in the technology and creative industries. TÜBİTAK-funded projects explore new strategies for market development and sustainable business practices, while career workshops and internship programs connect students to local and international employers. Social responsibility courses and collaboration with municipal partners allow students to actively participate in projects that enhance employability and contribute to the local economy.

8.1. Events

• Wednesday Conference: Prof. Dr. Bilgehan Çetiner, “Determining Additional Damages in an Inflationary Environment” (24 May 2023).[1]
• Panel: “Commemorating Prof. Dr. Mustafa Dural: Current Developments in Private Law” (10 June 2023).[2]
• International Conference: “Taxation of Data and Artificial Intelligence,” organized by Prof. Dr. Xavier Oberson with the support of Asst. Prof. Dr. Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu, University of Geneva (12 September 2024).[3]
• Faculty: Faculty of Art and Design | Unit/Center: Theatre | Training Activity: Zorlu PSM Workshop | Date: 10 January – 31 May 2023 | Participants: Trainers – Serdar Biliş, Özlem Hemiş, Özlem Özhabes; Trainees – Writers, directors, and producers applying as scholarship recipients | Summary: PSM Workshop is a free training program offered by Zorlu PSM with expert instructors to nurture new talent in theatre, enrich original productions, and contribute to the sustainability of the performing arts.[4]

8.2. Projects

• Internship Commission Activities: Summer internship opportunities for 3rd-year Kadir Has University Faculty of Law students at major law firms in Istanbul (17 April 2023).
• Internship Commission Activities: Career Planning and CV Writing Techniques for Law Students (22 October 2024).[5]
• KHAS Law Academy VI – Work Life and Artificial Intelligence: [6]
• Prof. Dr. Hande Heper Aykaş, “The Outlook of Artificial Intelligence in Employment Relations: Algorithmic Management by Employers”
• Prof. Dr. Deniz Ugan Çatalkaya, “The Threat of Artificial Intelligence to Workers’ Fundamental Rights and Freedoms: What Safeguards Can Be Established?” (19 March 2024).
• Occupational Health and Safety (ISG) Projects:
• Kadir Has University Silivri Technopark was established in 2023 in partnership with Silivri Municipality and the Kadir Has Foundation, located in Selimpaşa, Silivri. It accepts companies working in its focus areas into the technology park and aims to contribute to the regional and national economy through R&D projects carried out under the University-Public-Industry-Civil Society quadruple helix model.
• FabriKHAS aspires to become a unique creative hub for the screen industries, offering an ecosystem for collaboration, innovation, and professional development. It aims to foster synergy among professionals, strengthen creativity, and position itself as the heart of Istanbul’s screen industries.
• Faculty: Faculty of Art and Design | Project Type: TÜBİTAK 1001 | Project Title: Gender Dynamics of Skilled Migrant Women’s Labor Migration and Urban Life Experiences: The Case of Istanbul | Program Code: 1001 | Project No: 221K001 | Project Leader: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ezgi Tuncer | Scholarship Holders: Ela Gök, Liana Kuyumcuyan, Sare Nur Avcı – MA in Architecture and Urban Studies | Project Period: 01.04.2022 – 01.11.2023 | Summary: This project explores the socio-spatial dynamics shaping the migration, settlement, daily life practices, and urban experiences of highly educated (skilled) migrants living and working in Istanbul. It examines the migration reasons and processes of middle-class, transnational communities from the Global North and Global South, investigating their urban life experiences (home, work, and socialization) at the intersection of gender, nation, and ethnicity (identity and origin). The study highlights that these well-educated migrants, often perceived as a privileged “expat” group, are in fact transnational middle classes who may face precarity, economic crises, conflict, and repressive regimes. It aims to reveal the discriminatory practices they encounter in Istanbul and to contribute to the development of new urban and legal policies to improve their living conditions.

8.3. Publications

• A possible transformation of tourism education: A chaos theory perspective
  Authors: Kırlar-Can, B., Ertaş, M., Kozak, M., and Altinay, L.
  Year: 2024
• Economic Policy Uncertainty and Climate Change: Evidence from CO2 Emission
  Authors: Benlemlih, M. and Yavaş, Ç.
  Year: 2024
• Cryptocurrencies as a means of payment in online shopping
  Authors: AlReshaid, F., Tosun, P., and Yanar Gürce, M.
  Year: 2024
• Barriers to gender-based pro-environmental travel behavior
  Authors: Chalermchaikit, V. and Kozak, M.
  Year: 2024
• REFLECTION AND INTUITION IN A CRISIS-RIDDEN WORLD: Thinking Hard or Hardly Thinking?
  Authors: Saribay, S. and Yilmaz, O.
  Year: 2024
• Anatolia–unveiling its multidisciplinary landscape and future orientations
  Authors: Kaurav, R., Singhania, S., and Kozak, M.
  Year: 2024
• Pious people, patronage jobs, and the labor market: Turkey under Erdoğan’s AKP
  Authors: Oyvat, C., Tekgüç, H., and Yagci, A.
  Year: 2024
• Türkiye in Central Asia
  Authors: Aydin, M.
  Year: 2024
• The Return of the State and Its Alla Turca Version
  Authors: Izmen, Ü. and Özel, S.
  Year: 2024
• Nigeria’s Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption-GDP Relation and its Effect on National HDI: 2005-2022
  Authors: Oyejide, O., Akindele, G., and Efemena, O.
  Year: 2024
• Romantic Relationships in the Workplace: A Critical Approach to the Turkish Courts’ Case Law on the Employee’s Right to Respect for Private Life
  Authors: Çatalkaya, D. and Heper, H.
  Year: 2024
• Politics of household indebtedness in Turkey
  Authors: Ayhan, B., Aydin, M., and Ulcay, A.
  Year: 2024
• The Turkish Bourgeoisie at the Foundation of the Republic of Turkey: The Case of the Ship Owners
  Authors: Basaran Lotz, N.
  Year: 2024
• Merging Grid Technology with Oil Fields Power Distribution: A Smart Grid Approach
  Authors: Al-Eryani, O., Kayakutlu, G., Bektas, Z., and Kayalica, M.
  Year: 2024
• Climate change and security debates in the United Nations Security Council between 2007-2021
  Authors: Çelenk, B.
  Year: 2024
• Scholarly publishing in tourism and feelings of envy: impacts on emotional exhaustion, job satisfaction, and life satisfaction
  Authors: Ertaş, M., Kozak, M., and Kırlar-Can, B.
  Year: 2024
• Aging and Robotization: The Duality Between Generations and Robot Adoption
  Authors: Aydın, A.
  Year: 2023
• Mega-events and placemaking: Place image construction between reality and imagination
  Authors: Husukić, E., Zejnilović, E., Dimelli, D., Erek, A., and Duho, N.
  Year: 2023
• Determining and making sense of recruitment practices for tourism academics in the UK
  Authors: Seraphin, H., Kennell, J., Smith, S., Mandić, A., and Kozak, M.
  Year: 2023
• (Non-)deport to Discipline: The Daily Life of Afghans in Turkey
  Authors: Karadaǧ, S. and Sert, D.
  Year: 2023
• Transforming Türkiye’s power system: An assessment of economic, social, and external impacts of an energy transition by 2030
  Authors: Acar, S., Kat, B., Rogner, M., Saygin, D., Taranto, Y., and Yeldan, A.
  Year: 2023
• Toward a green income support policy: Investigating social and fiscal alternatives for Turkey
  Authors: Dogan, B., Tekgüç, H., and Yeldan, A.
  Year: 2023
• Cannabis tourists’ perceived constraints to engaging in commercial cannabis tourism overseas: a comparison of first-time and repeat tourists
  Authors: Wen, J., Kozak, M., and Ying, T.
  Year: 2023
• Financial Statecraft
  Authors: Kutlay, M. and Karaoğuz, H.
  Year: 2023
• Economic Governance
  Authors: Kutlay, M. and Karaoğuz, H.
  Year: 2023
• Development and Foreign Policy: State of the Art
  Authors: Kutlay, M. and Karaoğuz, H.
  Year: 2023
• Turkey: Challenges and strategies toward de-carbonization and sustainable development under the age of finance
  Authors: Yeldan, A.
  Year: 2023
• DRIVERS OF EMPLOYEE DIS/SATISFACTION: A COMPARISON OF TOURISM AND SPORTS INDUSTRIES
  Authors: Sevilmiş, A., Kozak, M., and Özdemir, İ.
  Year: 2023
• The economic well-being of nations is associated with positive daily situational experiences
  Authors: Gardiner, G., Lee, D., Baranski, E., Funder, D., Beramendi, M., Bastian, B., Neubauer, A., Cortez, D., Roth, E., Torres, A., Zanini, D., Petkova, K.
  Year: 2023
• The ties that don’t bind: trading state debates and role of state capacity in Turkish foreign policy
  Authors: Karaoğuz, H. and Kutlay, M.
  Year: 2023
• Poverty and income distribution incidence of the COVID-19 outbreak: investigating socially responsible policy alternatives for Turkey
  Authors: Tekgüç, H., Unsal, E., and Yeldan, A.
  Year: 2023
• Turkey’s public–private partnership experience: a political economy perspective
  Authors: Ayhan, B. and Üstüner, Y.
  Year: 2023

8.4. Courses

• LAW 438 – International and European Labor Law (Elective)

Course Description: Covers the International Labour Organization (ILO), European Union, Council of Europe, European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), and the European Social Charter, as well as Article 90/5 of the Turkish Constitution. Includes analysis of the European Court of Justice and European Court of Human Rights case law, along with decisions from ILO bodies related to labor relations.[7]

• Faculty: Faculty of Art and Design | Department: Architecture | Course: ARC302 | 2024–2025 Fall Semester | Architectures of Transiency: Impermanent Dwelling in Insecure Times
• ARCH503 | Pre-Thesis Seminar | ARCH503-S01 | Sabri Gökmen, Didem Kılıçkıran, Ufuk Soyoz, Doğu Durgun, Ezgi Tuncer, Gürbey Hız | Fri: 19:00–19:40 | B-302
• ARCH503 | Pre-Thesis Seminar | ARCH503-S01 | Sabri Gökmen, Didem Kılıçkıran, Ufuk Soyoz, Doğu Durgun, Ezgi Tuncer, Gürbey Hız | Fri: 19:00–19:50 | B-302
• ARCH504 | Architecture and Urban Studies Thesis | ARCH504 | Ezgi Tuncer, Didem Kılıçkıran, Sabri Gökmen, Ufuk Soyoz, Doğu Durgun, Gürbey Hız | Sat: 21:00–21:40 | B-201
• ARCH504 | Architecture and Urban Studies Thesis | ARCH504 | Ezgi Tuncer, Didem Kılıçkıran, Sabri Gökmen, Ufuk Soyoz, Doğu Durgun, Gürbey Hız | Sat: 21:00–21:50 | B-201
• ARCH518 | Space, Politics, and Power | ARCH518-S01 | Ezgi Tuncer
• KH542 | Current Issues in International Tax Law | Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu | Fri: 19:00–21:50 | D-113
• KH556 | Legal Theory, Political Theory, and Neuroscience | Mehmet Ozan Erözden | Tue: 18:00–20:50 | D-103
• KH542 | Current Issues in International Tax Law | Alara Efsun Yazıcıoğlu | Mon: 18:30–21:20 | D-103

[1]https://www.instagram.com/p/CsYVy6sKAEE/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[2]https://www.instagram.com/p/CtT0vMQKM_I/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

[3] https://www.unige.ch/formcont/en/courses/taxation-data-ai

[4] https://www.zorlupsm.com/kurumsal/psm-atolye

[5] https://www.instagram.com/p/DBJOp1kMwmu/

[6] https://www.khas.edu.tr/events/khas-hukuk-akademi-vi/

[7] https://bologna.khas.edu.tr/ders/30003173/program/50000736