IELMUN

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Letter from the Secretariat:

On behalf of the Secretariat, it is my distinct pleasure and honour to extend to you all a very warm welcome to the eleventh annual session of Istanbul Erkek Lisesi Model United Nations Conference.

Looking far beyond the 21st century, the world is manifestly standing at a watershed. Whilst humanity may in the nearest future succumb to the harsh changes of nature, the world is transforming at a rapid pace, driven most particularly by science and technology, into the yesterday’s utopia. Ceaseless changes of the planet as a result of globalization, expeditious development of technology and the armament race between countries, lead to one common and ineluctable conclusion: the actions of a few individuals can bring humanity back to the dark ages, or towards a golden age of civilisation.

As the world witnesses such a metamorphose of human nature, one should undoubtfully revamp his/her frame of reference while handling the complications of the present time. In De Brevitate Vitae, Greek philosopher Seneca seeks to reconcile mankind’s profoundest desire, immortality, with learning from the bygone and harnessing the experience to the fullest in the present. “History never repeats itself but it often rhymes,” Mark Twain utters in accordance therewith. 

Thus, we, as global citizens, are evidently to beware of theoretical illusions by going after the acquisition of experience, culling knowledge from all available resources in the Age of Information and planning our common future with distinctive circumspection. 

Pursuing the ideals of the new world order, we could not be expected to brush aside the history while designating the topics to be discussed by the leaders of the upcoming generation. Therefore, this year’s edition of IELMUN will be featuring 10 committees revolving around the roots and the basis of the future in the history, all staffed by extraordinarily passionate academic team members and, for which varying degrees of experience are requisite. An assortment of competent MUN participants and meritorious individuals well versed in the topics at hand will preside over our committees withal. From our renowned Historical Security Council, which will be taking place in the year of 1991 and tackling with the intricate situations in the fracturing USSR and Yugoslavia, to our multifarious Specialized Agencies, namely The World Health Organisation and the Human Rights Council, from the fruitful debate in our General Assemblies, to the intimacy and heated atmosphere of our multiple Crisis Committees, delegates are going to have access to exceedingly and rewarding debate in diverse committee styles and forms. One of IELMUN 2022's hallmarks will beyond doubt be its reduced committees, which will enable our delegates to have a chance to actively participate in the debate. As the academic team, we strive to ensure that at IELMUN, all delegates will develop skill sets that are central to - but also applicable beyond - the world of Model United Nations, therefore all committees with their allocated agenda items are meticulously designed to foster negotiation and public speaking skills, to introduce delegates a range of global challenges, and to provide culturally diverse perspectives on a variety of issues. Our strong emphasis on representation at our conference from schools across the globe as well as our committees organised in _ (was?) different languages, all of which provide the high academic standards the passionate delegates are especially looking for, ensure that IELMUN is an experience one cannot easily forget. With commitments to social impact and a celebration of diversity, our partnerships with various conferences from all around the world coupled with our nightly social events for delegates never fail to provide all IELMUN attendees a superb Model United Nations experience for years to come.

And as I sit writing this, I do not hesitate to state that I am both humbled and honoured to be a member of IELMUN society and assume the role of the Secretary General in this year’s edition of Istanbul Erkek Lisesi Model United Nations Conference, the exponential growth of which I luckily had the chance to witness throughout the previous years, and am eager to fulfil all of the responsibilities the role I assume entails.  

As the IELMUN family, we are excited to embark on this innovative and unique journey with you, and cannot wait to welcome you to an enriching and rewarding MUN experience that would go a long way in moulding the attendees into the future leaders. 

It is my hope that my words herewith convey my boundless enthusiasm for the upcoming year and the conference, and I look forward to seeing you in Istanbul Erkek Lisesi Model United Nations Conference in 2022 for what I hope will be IELMUN’s greatest chapter yet.

Y. Batın Tan

Secretary-General of IELMUN 2022

Venue:

Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (Istanbul Boys' High School) is one of the most well-known and oldest high schools in Turkey. In the past, it was one of the first western-style Turkish high schools in the Ottoman Empire. Today it is one of the most famous and most successful high schools in Turkey. Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, founded in 1884, is a public school. The school has both "Anatolian High School" and "Gymnasium"(Germany's top level for High School Education) statuses. The old Duyun-u Umumiye (Ottoman Empire Debts Department) building is now the school building, located in Cagaloglu, Fatih and has a wonderful view of Bosphorus and Halic.

Istanbul Erkek Lisesi;

is the first school to publish a students' newspaper

is the first school to use the term "High School"

is the first high school to give German education

is the first school to show a film

is the first school to have a theatre club

Istanbul Erkek Lisesi, with its 43 Turkish and 35 German teachers, its management team and its modern language and science labs, is one of the best schools in Turkey. Students of the school are not only granted with Turkish high school diploma but also an Abitur diploma (highest high school certificate of the German school system). We hope that during the conference you will make unforgettable memories in Istanbul and Istanbul Erkek Lisesi.

IELMUN Society:

IELMUN Society is a community which has been active since approximately 2006 in Istanbul (Erkek Lisesi) and has formed around IELMUN Club (IELMUNC). At the beginning, IELMUNC took only part in specific German conferences in Germany, but in the course of time it began to take part in conferences in Turkey. In 2011 the club regulation was adopted and IELMUN advanced its institutionalization. In 2012, adding Turkish as the third language, it organized a trilingual conference, which was the only trilingual conference in Turkey and among a rare number of conferences in the world. As IELMUNC improved IELMUN both academically and socially, it was deemed appropriate for various awards at the conferences it participated. After IELMUN put its club system in order, it separated the Organization and Academic Teams from another. It maintained its rise with its new top-sub committee and delegation systems.

Apart from the conferences it’s participated abroad and in Turkey, IELMUNC led the conferences held in different parts of Anatolia. Since 2011 IELMUNC has also had a European Youth Parliament (EYP) department and engaged in the works of EYP. The members of IELMUNC, who have repeatedly achieved to attend the international sessions, also hosted the 13th National Selection Conference of EYP Turkey.

IELMUN is honored to organize the first German conference and to be one of the few Turkish conferences held in Turkey, while contributing to the development of MUN in Turkey. Today, IELMUN is much more than a school club, with the conferences it has participated, its partnerships, achievements, members, graduates, supporters and all friends. IELMUNC has become a social formation, a community, which has long exceeded the limits of Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi.

Previous Editions:

IELMUN is a Model United Nations conference for high school and university students, held in the 136-year-old high school, Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi, by its students, in the last days of every summer.

Model United Nations means the simulation of United Nations, in which the participants act as delegates, ambassadors, Secretariat members and journalists. IELMUN was the first and only conference to organize a trilingual conference (Turkish, German, English) in Turkey and one of the few in the world, in 2012, when our journey first began.

In 2013, IELMUN brought the Turkish, German, and English committees all together with a new sub-committee system, which is still operational and effective.

In 2014, the third session of the conference was held, like any others, at the center of Istanbul, which was once capitals of Ottoman and Byzantine Empires and has a history of thousand years, in the Historical Peninsula, at the circa 200-year-old building of Istanbul (Erkek) Lisesi.

Having grown strong partnerships throughout the world, IELMUN 2015 has gathered various participants from 11 different countries and 30 international high schools; and from different cities of Turkey like Ankara, Izmir, Adana, Mersin, Giresun, Adiyaman etc. So far, IELMUN has achieved its goal to become not only a multilingual but also a multicultural conference. This year, IELMUN will raise the bar and become a greater conference than it already is.

Contact Us:

Secretary-General:
Yiğit Batın Tan: +90 552 624 10 28

Directors-General:

Çağrı Erdal Tosun: +90 535 441 08 09

Ata Utku Tünaydın: +90 531 831 26 06