06/11/2025
We remember Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the great leader and founder of our Republic, with respect, gratitude, and longing on the 87th anniversary of his passing.
In this regard, a Commemoration Ceremony for Atatürk will be held on Monday, November 10, 2025, at 8:45 a.m. at the Sabancı University Performing Arts Center (SGM).
As part of the ceremony, Mert Moral from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences will deliver a presentation titled “Atatürk and the Turkish Republic's Science and Education Visions.”
As the Sabancı University community, we will come together at this meaningful ceremony to honor the founder of our Republic, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, and to reflect once again on his vision grounded in science, reason, and education.
About Mert Moral
Mert Moral is an associate professor of political science and international relations. He received his Ph.D. in political science at the State University of New York at Binghamton and joined the faculty at Sabancı University, Istanbul-Turkey, in 2017. His research interests are voting behavior, political participation, democratic representation, political polarization, political and survey methodology, and comparative and Turkish politics. His research has been published at, among others, the American Journal of Political Science, Political Analysis, Political Behavior, Electoral Studies, Party Politics, and Political Research Quarterly. Dr. Moral has received several grants, fellowships, and honors, including the Turkish Researcher Association's Academic Owl Award (2024), Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award (2022), and Outstanding Young Scientist awards of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA-GEBİP, 2020) and Science Academy, Turkey (BAGEP, 2018), and is co-principal investigator of various survey studies including the Turkish Election Studies (2018, 2023) and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality Survey Study (2019).
