Progressive Thought Institute

Progressive Thought Institute
founded in the year	2013
City	Istanbul
Country	Turkey
Website	http://www.toplumcudusunceenstitusu.org
address	Hattat Halim Sokak. Babadan Apt. 6/1 Balmumcu-İstanbul
Networks	Foundation for European Progressive Studies (FEPS), Think Tank
Last revision	29.04.2015

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Turkish: Toplumcu Düşünce Enstitüsü

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Hattat Halim Sokak. Babadan Apt. 6/1 Balmumcu-İstanbul

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Besim Ünsaldi, alternate board member

• Mahir Büyükyilmaz, secretary of the board

• Mustafa Üçbaş, alternate board member

• Yonca Özdemir Espinosa, board member

• Emre Çakir, board member

• Yaşar Seyman, board member

• Özge Zihnioğlu Tanirli, alternate board member

• Cengiz Erdoğan, vice chairperson of the board

• Ayşenur Suberk Özturanli, alternate board member

• Önder Özturanli Iskender, board member

• Melih Şengölge, board member

• Can Büyükbay, vice chairperson of the board

• Ismail Emre Telci, board member

• Inan Izci, alternate board member

• P Nebil, chairperson of the board

• Muhittin Atila Candemir, alternate board member

• Mehmet Ferhan Kaptan, alternate board member

• Can Büyükbay, alternate board member

• Barış Antik, alternate board member

• Mikayil Dilbaz, alternate board member

• Ahmet Arif Bağlica, alternate board member

• Ilay Aksoy, board member

• Refik Karakaş, treasurer, board

• Emre Özdemir, vice chairperson of the board

Members

Members are not actively engaged in the institution, but have some rights (participation in certain events...). Sometimes members have to pay extensive yearly fees.

• Altan Öymen, honorary member

• Kemal Kiliçdaroğlu, honorary member

• Haluk Ülman, honorary member

• Besim Üstünel, honorary member

Advisory board

People advising the Think Tank (mainly in scientific questions)

• Aydın Cingi, member of the advisory board

• Burhan Şenatalar, member of the advisory board

• Faik Öztrak, member of the advisory board

• Gaye Usluer, member of the advisory board

• Gün Kut, member of the advisory board

• Ersin Kalaycioğlu, member of the advisory board

• Hurşit Güneş, member of the advisory board

• Burak Gemalmaz, member of the advisory board

• Osman Korutürk, member of the advisory board

• Sencer Ayata, member of the advisory board

• Gülsün Bilgehan, member of the advisory board

• Soli Özel, member of the advisory board

• Ceyhun Yağlicioğlu, member of the advisory board

• Sedef Küçük, member of the advisory board

• Enis Berberoğlu, member of the advisory board

• Murat Yasa, member of the advisory board

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Ibrahim Uğur Semerci, alternate member of the supervisory board

• Bülent Çakir, member of the supervisory board

• Kader Sevinc, member executive board

• Hüseyin Çinar, alternate member of the supervisory board

• Zehra Figen Şardağ, member of the supervisory board

• Metin Yüksel, alternate member of the supervisory board

• Eryaşar Eyyüpoğlu, chairman of the supervisory board

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

References

ad Kader Sevinc: http://kadersevinc.blogactiv.eu/about/