I’ve lived a rather colorful life — filled with curiosity, contemplation, questioning, pauses, and progress. Each time, I chose to be someone who is guided by “the voice within, the path of their own reason, and the compass of their own conscience.”
Believing in the value that “everyone should have the freedom to shape themselves,” I’m happy to live a dynamic life grounded in the principle of trying, growing, and moving forward. I’ve prepared this page as a small corner of memories — a tiny snapshot from a much larger album.
Being born in the very land where philosophy itself was “born,” I come from a rather “colorful” lineage: Western Anatolia, Izmir, Afyonkarahisar, Greece, Crete/Chania, Istanbul, Tekirdag, Bulgaria, Tarnovo… In fact, my ancestors were part of the Ottoman Empire’s “Wandering Multi-Cultural Turkish Migrants.”
My dears, my mother and father… While they’re young!
I was born in Izmir – the most beautiful city in Turkey! (yes, that’s a “slightly” biased statement!) — and here a three years old Hatice Melisa (a little bit “serious” )
From my primary school in Izmir in early 2000s, here is a photo:
12 years old Hatice Melisa – Middle School days, (as you guess, I am the girl on the right side.)
High school years…
Ten years challenge
Getting a little bit grower.. Before an exam preparation:
Thinking intensively with in my undergrad years…
From a social responsibility I participated project in Konak Izmir
“This is exactly where I found my niche” I said, at my master’s graduation:
And exploring northern Britain in PhD…
Night dance break in Glasgow…
Republic Day Celebration…
Glasgow University – Philosophy Department summer PhD party!
A tour in England National Gallery
With Prof. Miranda Fricker, founder of the term “epistemic injustice”
With my academic advisor Prof Philip Pettit at Princeton University…
My friend Tong, while discussing our new academic magazine in an extremely delicious Italian restaurant in NJ.
Sunny day at Princeton campus
Exploring American islands! With a New York Architecture
A moment from Washington DC, Capitol building…
The Statue of Liberty (1886)
“Joy of snow” in New Jersey / USA
The journey continues at the University of Oxford… A moment, Radcliffe Camera!
A valuable meeting with an inspiring woman aero-space professor, Yurdanur Tulunay, in Oxford Union
My presentation at All Souls College, University of Oxford on “Ethical and Non-Ethical Propoganda” in a Political Science Department course:
Let us turn to be a little bit “personal.” Oxford – Waterstones… “We’ll rock you!”
The sunset accompanied by the echo of ABBA – Don’t Shut Me Down
