{"id":6121,"date":"2024-11-07T10:49:04","date_gmt":"2024-11-07T15:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=6121"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:43","slug":"fall-convocation-stories-meet-fatma-ozgur-turker-master-of-social-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2024\/fall-convocation-stories-meet-fatma-ozgur-turker-master-of-social-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Convocation Stories &#8211; Meet Fatma &#038; Ozgur Turker, Master of Social Work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Fall Convocation Stories &#8211; Meet Fatma &#038; Ozgur Turker, Master of Social Work\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>After moving their family from T\u00fcrkiye to Canada and completing undergraduate studies that built on their previous degrees, married couple Fatma and Ozgur Turker embarked on the next step of their academic journeys. Fatma, driven by a passion for mental health, and Ozgur, drawn to social policy, found their shared path in Carleton\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/admissions.carleton.ca\/programs\/social-work\/?gad_source=1&amp;gclid=EAIaIQobChMIvfC3iZi2iQMVPUX_AR38ow8CEAAYASAAEgLPb_D_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master of Social Work program<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both note that their program peers were a significant influence on their education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe diversity of experiences and perspectives that our peers brought to the classroom was invaluable,\u201d says Ozgur. \u201cTheir insights challenged and expanded my own understanding of the world and structural social work \u2013 making my education a truly transformative experience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fatma echoes this sentiment: \u201cOur friends all had different experiences and brought their perspectives to the classroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/story\/honouring-ravens-2024-fall-convocation\/\">full story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After moving their family from T\u00fcrkiye to Canada and completing undergraduate studies that built on their previous degrees, married couple Fatma and Ozgur Turker embarked on the next step of their academic journeys. Fatma, driven by a passion for mental health, and Ozgur, drawn to social policy, found their shared path in Carleton\u2019s&nbsp;Master of Social [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6123,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6121\/revisions\/6123"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}