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Shelter Animals Get Some Love From TDP Volunteers
On November 28, TDP student volunteers organized a trip to an animal shelter belonging to Hayvan Kurtarma Derneği. Before the trip, donations of dry pet food, plastic bowls and veterinary medications were collected on
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The International Chronicles
BY AMNA KARA (MAN/III) Name: Reem Abbas Department: ELIT/I Country of Origin: Yemen What do you like best about Turkey? The weather and the scenery. Fall was absolutely beautiful here, and winter is a
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Changes in Academic Administration
Prof. Hilmi Volkan Demir, of the Departments of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Physics, was appointed director of the Institute of Materials Science and Nanotechnology (UNAM) as of December 8, 2015. Prof. Demir took
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Recent Administrative Changes
Ebru Ural Özkan, who had served as Human Resources manager at Bilkent University since 2013, decided to leave the position as of November 30, 2015. Ersun Türköz will take over as Human Resources manager
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Coming Full Circle
At the beginning of this semester, I made a small yet profound request of my readers: that we not let the years we spend getting our education go to waste. That was certainly not
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Gilgamesh the Student of Bilkent University
Tablet 1. Introduction There was a student, who used to be very lazy; He wasn’t studying, or doing any activity; He was as poor a student as there was at any Turkish university And
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Black Hippy Movement
In some of my previous columns, I have mentioned that I think we are witnessing the rebirth of socially aware hip-hop and will in the future remember this era as the second wave of
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