Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç Elected Member of the World Academy of Art and Science

Our Faculty of Medicine Dean Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç has been elected a member of the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS), the world's most prestigious science academy, whose founding visionaries included the famous theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, as well as Bertrand Russell, one of the greatest mathematicians and philosophers of the 20th century, Joseph Needham, one of the greatest historians of science and civilization, and the renowned nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer.

We congratulate Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç, Dean of our University's Faculty of Medicine, who has made a name for himself in international medicine with his work in neurosurgery, is regarded as one of Türkiye's most important brain surgeons, and, nominated by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, has become the first Turk elected to the World Academy of Art and Science, on this achievement.

Ceremony Held at Bahçeşehir University

A ceremony was held at Bahçeşehir University in honor of Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç's achievement. Our President Prof. Dr. Şirin Karadeniz congratulated Prof. Dr. Türker Kılıç on his election to the World Academy of Art and Science. BAU Global Chairman Mr. Enver Yücel emphasized the value of the unity of science and art. Muharrem Usta, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of İstinye University, thanked Prof. Türker Kılıç for his contributions to science.

About the World Academy of Art and Science (WAAS) 

Founded in Geneva in 1960 and registered in the state of California, USA, the World Academy of Art and Science is an international scientific organization of more than 700 individual fellows from more than 80 countries. Members are elected for distinguished achievements in science, the arts and the humanities. The signatories of its founding charter included Nobel laureate thinkers such as Earl Bertrand Russell, Lord John Boyd Orr, Hermann Joseph Muller and Harold Urey, as well as violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Philip Noel-Baker, while the world-famous physicist Albert Einstein took part in its preparatory work. The Academy's motto is expressed by Albert Einstein's words: "The creations of our mind shall be a blessing and not a curse to mankind." In 2013, WAAS launched the World University Consortium. WAAS programs include the abolition of nuclear weapons, global employment, higher education on a global scale, the development of individuality, the formulation of a new human-centered economic theory, the limits of rationality and methods of acquiring knowledge.