The “Concept Workshop” was held on November 22, 2025, by the Bülbülzade Foundation Education Teachers Unit. The workshop took place at Zade Life Hotel and was moderated by Ebuzer Nas. The event featured various presentations aimed at enhancing conceptual clarity and re-evaluating intellectual frameworks.
The workshop began with an opening speech by Turgay Aldemir, President of the Bülbülzade Foundation. Aldemir, who shared his reflections on concepts, emphasized that the human mind thinks through concepts, yet a sound mind does not reduce truth solely to concepts, stating, “Truth is greater than the concepts and meanings that describe it.”
The first session continued with a presentation titled “Rethinking Our Concept Sets” by Ali Özcan, President of the Refar Institute. Özcan addressed the background of concepts and the re-evaluation of established thought sets.
Ebuzer Nas, the coordinator of the Concept Workshop, detailed the intellectual framework of the workshop in his presentation titled “The Purpose and Objectives of the Workshop.” Following his talk, Cumali Kaplan, the Secondary Education Commission coordinator, held a two-question “open discussion” on the workshop’s areas of study.
The workshop continued with Ahmet Taşkesen’s presentation titled “Evaluation of Existing Contexts.” After the presentation, focus groups were formed and group discussions were conducted.
The third presentation of the workshop was delivered by Şehadet Gerçek under the title “Defining New Conceptual Contexts.” Highlighting the importance of concept sets, Gerçek stated, “The time has come to produce our own concepts and contexts with a strong, confident, and self-assured psychology.” After the presentation, participants engaged in a “brainstorming” session on concept analysis, laying the groundwork for the emergence of new ideas.
Following the analyses, the workshop proceeded with the sessions titled “Concepts and Contexts to Be Avoided” and “Risk Analysis,” where the possible impacts of the conceptual choices were discussed. Finally, after the session titled “Concepts/Contexts to Be Prioritized and Abandoned,” the workshop concluded with the sharing of views on concepts and the closing speech.
