İstanbul Gelişim University (İGÜ) hosted the 2nd International Black Sea and Caspian Basin Symposium on 14 October 2026. As part of the symposium, an international conference titled “Searching for Cooperation and Integration in the Turkic World” was held.

At the conference, Asst. Prof. Dr. Burçin Çakır Gündoğdu presented her paper titled “The Dynamic Effects of Financial Development and Environmental Innovation on Carbon Emissions in Türkiye: An ARDL Approach.” The study uses the ARDL (Autoregressive Distributed Lag) method to examine how the development of Türkiye’s financial system and innovation in environmentally friendly technologies affect carbon emissions in the short and long run. The paper adds to the debate on the role of financial policy and green innovation in tackling climate change.