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With  Kader’s tragic death, a 14 year-old child bride who was married off at the age of 12 in Siirt making the headlines again, it has been reported that the issue of child brides, which Turkey fails to find a solution for, was also a violation of children’s rights. The latest news on  14 year-old Kader being found dead from gunshot wounds, who was married off at the age of 12 in Pervari, Siirt and lost her second child due to premature birth, once again brought the attention back to the child brides. 

Students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Faculty of Fine Arts and Design returned from competitions with awards. While Kaan Selçuk, junior student of IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Industrial Design came in first place, Tayfun Çelik, senior students of Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design received an encouragement award at KOÇTAŞ Açık Fikir Interior Design Competition.

The mosaics of historical city of Agora, located at the heart of Izmir, will live in the motifs of hand-woven carpets. The mosaics of Agora, which was left to its own devices, were excavated by the support of Izmir Chamber of Commerce, and carpets were hand-woven in mosaic patterns. The mosaic designed carpets, which were woven upon the recommendation of Ekrem Demirtaş, President of the Board of Trustees and Chairman of the Executive Board of Izmir Chamber of Commerce, will be used as gifts in promoting Izmir. The carpets bearing the colours and weaving techniques of Western Anatolia will be decorating the offices of statesmen all around the world. The first group of carpets are finished and took their place at the Office of President Demirtaş at IUE.

Nebahat Mine Tunca, graduate of Izmir University of Economics, Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Architecture (2013) won the Serra Special Award at Archiprix Competition for her “han” project which reflects the light and shadow effects of Basmane region. This award qualified Tunca to attend an architectural trip in Holland. Tunca, who got inspired by the light effects between the historical and unique alleys of Basmane to create her “han” project, established an access route between Basmane Train Station and Historical Kemeraltı Bazaar by this way.

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Graduate School of Social Sciences will be training qualified individuals needed by the banking sector that is in the growth process. Banking and Applied Finance Master Program to be offered at IUE will provide training on various simulation applications and financial modelling methods for bankers.

Asst. Prof. Dr. Emre Ergül, Lecturer at Izmir University of Economics Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, returned with 2 awards from the architectural project competitions held by Ministry of Family and Social Policies and Ministry of National Education. Ergül won honourable mention awards with his designs for Adıyaman Active Living Centre Architectural Project and Istanbul Beykoz Education Campus Architectural Project at competitions respectively held by Ministry of Family and Social Policies and Ministry of National Education.

Izmir University of Economics (IUE) will be representing Turkey at the International Furnishing Show (IMM Cologne 2014) that will be held at Cologne, Germany. IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Departments of Industrial Design, and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design will represent the country with 17 pieces of furniture they designed at the fair that will be held on January 13 – 19. The furniture projects designed by students will be displayed at the fair, where only IUE from Turkey has been invited, as part of their Furniture Design course co-conducted by Departments of Industrial Design, and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design. 

New Year cookies have been baked to make the children, in need of protection, happy. The New Year cookies, prepared by the students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) Department of Culinary Arts and Management as part of their Pastry course, are on sale for the benefit of Turkish Foundation for Children in Need of Protection (KORUNCUK). All the funds raised by this sale will be used for the children within the foundation. Each of the Santa Claus, snowman, snowflake, gingerbread man, and reindeer shaped cookies were baked to support protecting the children. 

The founding organization of Izmir University of Economics (IUE), Izmir Chamber of Commerce Health and Education Foundation, welcomed 2014 with its members at a New Year’s party held at IUE Conference Hall. The members enjoyed a night of dances and songs, and wished each other a happy new year at the party hosted by Ekrem Demirtaş, Chairman of the Executive Board of ITO Health and Education Foundation. Chairman Demirtaş and the Executive Board cut the New Year’s cake together.

Designer students of Izmir University of Economics (IUE) set out to make ill children happy. The students made doll clothes and decorated them as part of the “Yaren Dolls Project”, co-organized by IUE Faculty of Fine Arts and Design, Department of Fashion and Textile Design and Bostanlı Rotary Club, which will later be sold for the benefit of children who have leukaemia, heart and kidney problems. The raised funds will be donated to children hospitalized at Behçet Uz Children’s Hospital.