"AMERS" Discussed the Past and Planned the Future

The Bahçeşehir University Center for American Studies (AMERS) Advisory Board came together at its 2012 Opening Meeting. At the dinner, new board members were introduced, recent activities were presented and detailed information was provided on upcoming projects.
 

At the meeting, attended by Milliyet newspaper columnist Sami Kohen, Chair of the Board of Erdem Holding Zeynel Abidin Erdem, TÜSİAD US Representative Abdullah Akyüz, Conrad Hilton Hotel Board MemberAlper Aksoy, from İdea Public Relations and Promotion Şila Gök, DEİK Business Council Member Melek Deniz Üner, Chair of the Board of the Bursa Young Businessmen's Association Nilüfer Çevikel, Program Producer Defne Samyeli, PKF Junior Consultant Hande Tibuk, and Bahçeşehir University faculty members Yılmaz Esmer, Nilüfer Narlı, Ebru Canan, Sabri Sayarı, Sean Cox, Nora-Fisher Onar and Mert Bilgin, discussions were held on relations with the business world, AMERS's media dialogues in the coming period and new projects to be developed.
 

Commenting on the meeting, Assist. Prof. Dr. Burak Kuntay, Director of the Bahçeşehir University Center for American Studies (AMERS), said: "We are the first and only Center for American Studies in Türkiye in political and economic terms. No research center in the world can operate without relations with the media and the business world. This center has an academic and administrative side within the university. Once again achieving a 'first' in Türkiye, we have turned this center of the university into a structure that brings it together with leading figures of the business world and the media, as you can see at many universities in America and Europe."

 

AMERS Advisory Board Chair Zeynel Abidin Erdem said: "Our purpose is to reflect America's position regarding Türkiye on the international platform, politically, socially and economically, to university faculty members, our students, those outside our circle and Türkiye, and to identify strategies. In identifying these strategies, we organize ourselves according to the agenda set by the Advisory Board. Although we may seem not to be very involved in politics, we believe we must strive to explain the pressure of American politics on Türkiye and the response to it to new generations, young people, the press and everyone. We want to bring people to a culture in which they can digest these policies, live them and carry their reflections into the future."