Serdar Karadağ
Founding Member and President
Graduate of Istanbul technical Uni, City and Regional Planning and Marmara University Management Specialization. Specialist in the private sector for 35 years.
Our Team
We were established, bringing together a wide ranging expertise, in 2018 to provide Sustainable Development support to Local Authorities.
SUDA is both a Platform and a civil society Association
The working format of the Platform with the Association empowers and allows us to be more efficient and effective, and to amplify our work through our inclusive collaboration.
What makes our collaboration rich and inclusive is that we are a diverse group of people, each from a different background and with a different area of expertise.
We are all motivated to contribute to robust and far-reaching solutions and we all adopt a holistic and collaborative approach, preferring cooperation culture instead of competition culture.
Our Advisory Board:
consists of 16 of Turkey's leading academics and professionals.
The board members are from various esteemed national and international institutions such as Istanbul Technical University.
Our Advisory Board are academics in areas such as Urban Planning, Energy, Agriculture, Mobility, Sociology, Tourism and more...
Our Story
Our Core Association Members:
consists of 24 of Turkey's professionals in a wide range of areas, all dedicated to contributing to Sustainable Urban and Rural Development.
Some of Our Core Association Members:
Ayça Aytaç
Founding Member
Senior Urban Planner
VQA Certified Professional Coach
Education and Career Counselor
Instructor
"She assists along the journey towards a happy future."
Jodie Harburt Karadağ
Founding member
Jodie is a designer, artist, writer, gardener, mother and partner. She uses her construction, landscaping and design-based foundation in continuing work on various projects and also as Circle host and workshop facilitator.
Pınar Gerikalmaz
Member
Focus: food security, local women's entrepreneurship, horizontal and democratic organization. Also inclusion, rural women's work, sustainable agricultural production and cooperatives, branding, and national / EU supported projects.
Elif Huriel
Member
Food engineer. Corporate company (beverage industry) for 27 years. I am currently retired. Ongoing field of agriculture education.
Ceramics artist for 25 years and I am working on my project to move from hobby status to a small scale manufacturer.
Married with two children,
Fatma Cam Denizci
Member
Founder and Chairperson of Şile Ovacık Village Women's Seed Association. A Founder of Slow Food Şile Palamut.
Co-founder of Slow Food Şile Earth Market. One Day in Ovacık Village project manager.
Working to include producing women in social and economic life and raising social awareness
Yalçın Kurt
Member
He is a manager in a private institution that provides Commercial Real Estate, Valuation and Consultancy Services,
And every week, on the channel “Property of the Rich Züzürün Çenesi”, again with the title of real estate; He makes podcasts and broadcasts with news from the country and the world.
Burçak Salungan Dinç
Member
An art historian who likes to live life naturally, wants to enjoy being in touch with art and nature, knows the value of what nature has given us and wants to pay off her debt to nature ...
Adem Akkır
Member
Graduated from Istanbul Bilgi University Faculty of Law,
Partner at MGC Legal.
In addition to SUDA, he also operates in the Living Law Association and the Değer Autism Association
Pınar Gökbayrak
Member
Architect. She designs human-oriented physical spaces.
