Immediate Release: 19 October 2023
İstanbul – www.lmglobal.org | www.isikbinyili.org

“Hope Never Fades” titled book in print (October 2023) based on the 2021 & 2023 J.U.C. Media, Research, Writing, Türkiye100, and Water Action Awards will be launched at the 40th International TÜYAP İstanbul Book Fair on Friday, November 3, 2023.
The book launching event is scheduled at the TÜYAP (Beylikdüzü), Marmara room (1st floor) for Friday, November 3, 2023, from 12:00 to 13:30.

Booklet#3 of the 2023 J.U.C. Awards Ceremony | Booklet#2 of the 2021 J.U.C. Awards Ceremony
Media Release of the New Book: Hope Never Fades
The event language: English

Organized and Presented by: Işık Binyılı Association (IşıkBinyılı.Org, 2010, İstanbul),
In collaboration with
The Light Millennium Global (LMGlobal.Org, 2001, New York)

[LMGlobal.Org, October 19, 2023]
Işık Binyılı Association is a sister Organization of The Light Millennium, Charitable Human Advancement Organization | LMGlobal.Org. This year, its second time participating in the TÜYAP İstanbul Book Fair from October 28 to November 5, 2023. Along with this, it also organized and will be presented 2 panels within the scope of the Book Fair.

The first one is titled, “Su, Kullanılmış Su’yun Yönetimi ve SU+GIDA Sürdürülebilirliği Üzerine” (On Water, Waste Water Management, Sustainability of Water+Food), which is scheduled for Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at TÜYAP (Beylikdüzü) Büyükada Room (2nd floor) from 5:00 to 6:30 PM. This event will be presented in Turkish. For more information, please visit www.isikbinyili.org website. 

The second panel is based on the “2021 & 2023 J.U.C. Awards“, titled, “Hope Never Fades“, which is scheduled for Friday, November 3, 2023, from 12:00 to 13:30 PM.

The 2023 J.U.C. Awards, along with the “Hope Never Fades” book launching event dedicated to the:
100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye

The concept of the book and compiled by Bircan Ünver. 

The 25 names of the Contributors to the book are: 

Ambassador Rodrigo A. Carazo (Preface);
Sevinç Orman, Nazlı Eren, Simay Yüksel, Jyoti Kumari (Research); 
Sude Çapaoğlu, Begüm Serttaş, Eren Koruyan, Raneesha Jayarathane, Zeynep Özdemir (Writing General); 
Muhammet Ali Turan, Duru Büyükbaşaran, Baturalp Aslan, Elif Yılmaz (Türkiye100);
Prof. Olcay Ünver, Emine Karaman, Fatime Abakar Ousmane (Water Action); 
Zainab Bie, Korkmaz Can Sağlam, Deepak Kumar, Ahmet Yasir Destebaşı, Kavisha Amandi Jayarathne, R.A. Rukshana (Media);
Prof. Gary Grossman (Closing);
John Unver Culkin (by him/In Memory) 

The book also contains the full summary of the 2021 and 2023 Award Ceremonies.

Honorary Speakers of the Book Launching Panel at #TÜYAP #İstanbulBookFair on Friday, November 3, 2023 from 12:00 – 13:30: 

• Mr. RODRIGO A. CARAZO, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United Nations (2018-2022);
Member, UN Human Rights Committee, Geneva;
Chair, The 2023 J.U.C. Awards Evaluation Committee (via video, Opening Remarks)

• Dr. SERDAR SAVAŞ, President, Turkish Society of Public Health Genomics and Personalized Medicine; 
Co-Director, European Center for Public Health Genomics, Maastricht University (2010 – 2015) (Maastricht Area, Netherlands);
Health 2020 Committee Member European Regional Office of the World Health Organization European Regional Office of the World Health Organization(2010 – 2011)

• Dr. SERPIL TUNÇER, Ph.D, Board Member and Head of the History and Culture Commission at Darüşşafaka Foundation, and:
Ms. BURCU TUNCEL, Darüşşafaka High School. Foreign Languages Team Lead

Moderator/Concept by: BİRCAN ÜNVER, Author, Founder-President of The Light Millennium Global & Işık Binyılı Association

(If time permits) The interactive Section will be focused on the “2025 J.U.C. Awards/Water Action Decade”, which is also in the last section of the book under “What is Next?” title. 

The below-listed names are the confirmed student speakers:

2023 Overall Excellence | Submission Category #Türkiye100 
Muhammed Ali Turan, Şehit Velit Bekdaş Anatolian High School, Ankara / Türkiye

Except for Simay Yüksel, the below-listed names of the students will be participating from Darüşşafaka High School:

(2021) Sevinç Orman, (Research/First Place)
(2023)  Simay Yüksel, Research/First Place, TED College Ankara  
(2023) Eren Koruyan (Writing General/First Place)   
(2023) Emine Karaman (Water Action/First Place)
(2023) Elif Yılmaz (#Turkiye100/Special Award)                                                                        
(2021) Begüm Serttaş (Writing General/Second Place)
(2021) Zeynep Bayraktar  (Research/Third Place)
(2023) Zeynep Özdemir (Writing General/Third Place)
(2021) Esma Nur Sarı (Writing General/Third Place)
(2023) Hamide Begüm Yıldız (#Turkiye100/Third Place)

Further, 2 media award-winning projects will be screened by Can Korkmaz Sağlam, and Kavashi Amandi Jayarathne (Sri Lanka).

The Book Launching session will be moderated by Bircan Unver.

INTRODUCTION

The award-winning students (the names are listed above); who received awards during the 2021 and & 2023 J.U.C. Media, Research, Writing, Türkiye100, and Water Action Awards, will deliver a brief speech or presentation along with three Honorary Speakers, and the concept of the 2025 J.UC. Awards (for high schools) will be introduced by Bircan Ünver.

In particular, Darüşşafaka High School students applied both in 2021 and 2023 and received a total of 13 awards 9 award-winning students will be present at the event to deliver brief speeches based on each of their initially submitted award-winning pieces.

The book, “Hope Never Fades” mentions all the award-winning students including the first and second-place winning pieces, the Overall Excellence and Special Awards, and the introduction of the media projects.

Through this event, the “Hope Never Fades” book will be launched with the contributed student authors of the book who will have an opportunity to present his/her award-winning pieces in person. Ultimately, the event aims to bring the front-line students and inspire high school students toward participating in similar projects.

“Tribute to Beethoven & Atatürk” by Can Korkmaz Sağlam (2021 J.U.C. Media Award) and “See The Human” (Animation) by Kavisha Amandi Jayarathne (2023 J.U.C. Media Award)

SUMMARY OF THE EVENT

The event concept and context are based on the 2021 & 2023 J.U.C. Media, Research, Writing Awards, #Türkiye100 (2023) and Water Action (2023) Awards, which also provided both ground, context and contents to the “Hope Never Fades” titled book (October 2023).

In correlation with the 2021 & 2023 J.U.C. Awards, along with the “Hope Never Fades” book, the event aims to profile the award-winning students, in particular, from Darüşşafaka High School, along with the recipient of the 2023 Overall Excellence Award and 2023 First Place Winner in Research category from Ankara.

The 2023 J.U.C. Awards presented a special category on the 100th Anniversary of the Republic of Türkiye and delivered a total of 5 awards during the virtual award ceremony on June 17, 2023. In particular, the recipient of the Overall Excellence and the Special Award recipient in this category will present a summary of their award-winning essays at the event.

This event is organized and presented based on the “Hope Never Fades” book (October 2023), in collaboration with, IşıkBinyılı.Org and the Light Millennium Global (2001, New York). www.isikbinyili.org | www.lmglobal.org

BIOGRAPHY OF THE SPEAKERS:
(Brief bios of the speaker students will be included in the final version of the program.)

Ambassador RODRIGO A. CARAZO

Mr. Carazo, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of Costa Rica to the United Nations in New York (2018 – 2022); currently member of the UN-Human Rights Council (Geneva), 2022 President of UNICEF’s Executive Board, and Chair of the 2023 J.U.C. Awards Evaluation
Committee
Professional development in the public sector includes: first Ombudsman of the Republic of Costa Rica (1993-1997); Member of the Legislative Assembly (2002-2006). Professional development in the private sector includes: being a liberal professional since 1971 in the fields of Economy, Law and International Relations. He has also served as a consultant for
International Organizations (Government, Intergovernmental, Non-Governmental) as well as for private entities. He has 48 years of experience as a businessman in commercial, industrial, tourist, agricultural and service sectors.
Academic background includes: serving as a university professor in Costa Rica and the United States; Member of the Board of the public Distance University in Costa Rica; he holds a Law Degree from the University of Costa Rica and a similar degree in Economic and Social Sciences from the
University of Costa Rica, a PhD in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Geneva- Switzerland and has completed further studies in History and International Law. He speaks Spanish, English and French. Ambassador Carazo is 75 years old, married, father of 4 daughters and grandfather of 11 grandchildren

Dr. B. SERDAR SAVAŞ

Short Bio: Dr. Serdar Savaş is one of the first physicians and scientists who have applied genome-based information to personalized preventive medicine in the world and is one of the pioneers of this field. After serving as Deputy Undersecretary of the Turkish Ministry of Health and as Director of Programme Management at World Health Organisation (WHO) Europe, Dr. Savas established the GENAR Institute for Public Health and Genomics Research at Hacettepe University Science Park in Ankara, with researchers and scientists from Hacettepe University. Under his leadership, the GENAR Institute developed Gentest as a personalized healthcare model. In 2004, Dr. Savas founded Gentest Institute to work on public health genomics and personalized medicine, which has been developing innovative solutions for prevention of the major chronic diseases and their complications. Gentest is based on the ‘7K Medicine’ concept, developed by Dr. Savas, which refers to personalized, predictive, preventive, comprehensive, precise, evidence-based, and participatory medicine (words that all begin with ‘K’ in Turkish). In Turkey and around the globe, Dr. Savas has been working on the vision of integrating 7K Medicine in health care services in Turkey and around the globe.

Dr. SERPIL TUNÇER, Ph.D., Board Member and Head of History and Culture Commission at Darüşşafaka Foundation

Following her graduation from the Political Sciences Faculty, Public Relations Department of İstanbul University, Serpil Tunçer got a Master’s degree at

the American Culture and Literature Department, Institute of Social Sciences at İstanbul University. Her MA Thesis was titled, “Feminine Gothic in Joyce Carol Oates’ Short Fiction”. She got her doctoral degree based on her work,titled,”PostmodernEthics:The Ethical Problematic of the Individual in Don DeLillo’s Work”. After attending the American Gothic Literature, Postmodern American Literature and Translation classes at the department of American Culture and Literature,İstanbul University, She lectured at the Linguistics department of İstanbul University, having recommended for the first time, the “Ecolinguistic” classes which have provided a wide world view for students relating the vital ecological problems of the planet.
Her research fields are Sociolinguistics,Ecolinguistics, and Cultural Ecology.

Besides various articles in scientific magazines, she translated, “The European Myths of Orient” by Rana Kabbani, “The Fall of the Public Man”, by Richard Sennett, “Matmazel Paradies”, by Brian O’Doherty, into Turkish.
She is the author of the book, “Yaşayan Mazimiz: Darüşşafaka” (Our Lively Past: Darüşşafaka).
She retired in September, 2022. She is a board member at Darussafaka Society and is studying on an ecolinguistic introductory book for Turkish students.

Ms. BURCU TUNCEL Darüşşafaka High School. Foreign Languages Team Leader

Burcu Tuncel is an experienced educator who has been serving as the Head of the Foreign Languages Department at Darüşşafaka High School. Ms. Tuncel began her teaching career after earning her Bachelor’s Degree in English Language Teaching from Marmara University in 2000, specializing in English as a Second Language (ESL). With a passion for language education, Ms. Tuncel dedicated 9 years to the department, demonstrating her commitment to fostering a dynamic and effective learning environment for students. For the past 4 years, she has contributed her expertise to her latest institution, further enriching her career in education.

BİRCAN ÜNVER, M.A. , Author, Founder-President of The Light Millennium Global & Işık Binyılı Association

Bircan is an independent TV Producer (developed/produced and cablecast over 220 television programs including 36 Water Action Commitments), Originator, Founder-President, and Head Representative of The Light Millennium, a Charitable Global Human Advancement Organization (2001, NY, LMGlobal. Org) to the United Nations Department of Global Communications (UNDGC_CSO); and Executive Producer of #LightMillenniumTV since January 2000; Content Provider at QPTV since 1992; Co-founder of the Turkish Library & Museum’s vision & Ambassador of Peace and Goodwill for Anuvrat (Anuvibha) Global Organization (since 2014, India); and Member of the Global Movement for the Culture of Peace (GMCoP, an NGO platform at the U.N. since 2012). Bircan has undertaken LMGlobal’s e-publications, public programs, and Light Millennium TV Series and Specials’ in all aspects since January 2000; also all UN-related activity and programs since 2005. Also, she is the founder-president of the IsikBinyili.Org Association (Turkish counterpart of the LMGlobal.Org) based in İstan- bul, Türkiye (01/2010). 

Author of: “En Kutsalı Yaratmak” (1995, 2022), “Sanatın Labirentlerinde” (2016), “Işık Yollarında” (poetry, 2017) and “Bin Yıl Daha” (2020) in Turkish. Including the 2021-2023 J.U.C. Awards and “Hope Never Fades” concept, Bircan is also the author of numerous implemented public events and UN-related programs over the two decades, along with the #LightMillenniumTV Series since 2000.

Holds a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Degree from the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University (İstanbul, 1988) and a Master’s of Arts Degree (M.A.) from Media Studies of the New School University (New York City, 1999).

She is the mother of Barış Ünver and John Unver Culkin, (1997-~), and has two granddaughters.

 Media Release of the Hope Never Fades book (pdf)

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Special Thanks to:
Burcu Tuncel, Darüşşafaka High School, and the Guide of the students to bring to the event to TÜYAP;  
Haluk Velidedeoğlu, Engineer, and
İlknur Boray, Ataturk Society of America

Booklet#3 of the 2023 J.U.C. Awards Ceremony
Booklet#2 of the 2021 J.U.C. Awards Ceremony

The Light Millennium Global also collaborates with its Turkish sister association, IşıkBinyılı.Org for another panel at the 40th TÜYAP İstanbul Book Fair on “SU, KULLANILMIŞ SU YÖNETİMİ VE SU+GIDA Sürdürülebilirliği Üzerine” (On Water, Waste Water Management and Sustainability Water+Food) in the Büyükada Room (2nd floor) on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 at 17:00 – 18:30.
Detail of the panel is available through www.isikbinyili.org web site:

https://isikbinyili.org/2023/10/18/40-tuyap-istanbul-kitap-fuarindayiz-su-kullanilmis-su-yonetimi-ve-su-gida-surdurulebilirligi-uzerine-1-kasim-2023-panel.html

Web siteleri: www.lmglobal.org | www.isikbinyili.org

Emails: iletisim(at)isikbinyili.org | JUCAwards(at)lightmillennium.org

2019 – “Amended & Broadened” Purposes of The Light Millennium Global
IşıkBinyılı.Org Purposes & By-Laws (2010, İstanbul)

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