We organized a farewell dinner event to honor the retirement of our esteemed faculty member, Prof. Dr. Kıvılcım Metin Özcan. During this event, which was attended by our faculty members, our department head, Prof. Dr. Seyithan Ahmet Ateş, and our deputy head of department, Ayşenur Karakaş Aydınbakar, presented gifts to Prof. Dr. Kıvılcım Metin Özcan on behalf of our department.

The article titled "Corruption and Informal Practices in the Middle East and North Africa: A Pooled Cross-Sectional Analysis" co-authored by our faculty member Assist. Prof. Fatih Kırşanlı, has been published in the "Journal of Institutional Economics".

The article titled "Can Religious Fasting Nudge People to Smoke Less? Evidence from Ramadan" co-authored by our faculty member Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Burcu Uğur and our PhD student Abdullah Doğan, has been published in "Nicotine & Tobacco Research".

The article titled "Unhappiness among the unemployed: The roles of descriptive norms,injunctive norms and personal beliefs" co-authored by our faculty member Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Burcu Uğur and our PhD student Ayşenur Durak, has been published in "Asian Journal of Social Psychology".

Our faculty member, Prof. Barış Alpaslan, has been appointed as an advisor to the Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology. We congratulate him and wish him success in his new position.

We held the third session of our EconTalks webinar series, titled "The Political Economy of Corruption", online on April 23rd, 2025. In this event moderated by our faculty member Assist. Prof. Fatih Kırşanlı, our distinguished speaker, Assoc. Prof. Chandan Kumar Jha from the Madden School of Business and Economics at Le Moyne University discussed the relationship between corruption and economic policies.

Our faculty member and Vice President of the Committee of Experts on the 2030 agenda for Sustainable Development Goals at the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO, Prof. Barış Alpaslan, moderated the panel titled "Women in a More Equal World", held on April 12, 2025.

The project proposal prepared by our undergraduate students, Ahmet Taha Avcı, Asude Durulmuş, Ayşen İmran Sarıcaoğlu, Enes Melikşah Ak, and Eren İlber Bal, under the supervision of our faculty member, Lecturer Dr. Mehmet Akif Gündoğdu, has been accepted for funding within TÜBİTAK 2209-A Project Programme.

The article "The Myth of Meritocracy: Does Meritocracy Promote Economic Growth? Evidence From Turkey" by our faculty members Prof. Barış Alpaslan and Res. Asst. Mevza Kurtulmuşlar, has been published in the "Review of Development Economics".

Our faculty member, Prof. Barış Alpaslan, has been selected as a finalist in the "Social Action" category of Study UK Alumni Awards 2025 by the British Council.