Sait Serkan Gürbüz, a second year International Relations student has been accepted into a summer internship at the International Institute for Political and Economic Studies (IIPES), and has been awarded a scholarship by the Fund for American Studies to attend the program.
The institute is sponsored by the Fund for American Studies in cooperation with Georgetown University and the Greek Association for Atlantic and European Cooperation. IIPES is an academic program that explores major political, economic and cultural issues important to the Eastern Mediterranean region. The aim of the institute is to foster relationships that bridge the conflicts among the Judaic, Christian and Moslem worlds; discuss economic, political and cultural ideas with young leaders from the Middle East, the Balkans and the United States; and study with faculty under the direction of Georgetown University. Serkan will be one of sixty university students from 20 countries who will participate in the program. This year the institute will be held in Chania, Crete.
Serkan says, “I am very happy to be chosen as a participant for such a valuable program. I will do my best to represent Turkey and Bilkent University.”