Ibrahim Melih Polat

Currently, I am a private advisor of the deputy of Gaziantep, which is one of the provinces where refugee problems are encountered the most. This opportunity, which I took in my third year at university, allowed me to learn the working principle of the Turkish Grand Assembly, to spend time with many other deputies and to listen to different ideas. At the same time, it was very useful in terms of points that I should pay attention to while expressing my own ideas. While the various phone calls I made for the deputy strengthened my communication skills, processing, analyzing and interpreting the data about the people of Gaziantep and trying to create effective policies with comments improved my analytical thinking skills. Previously, I did an internship at the Turkish Ministry of Interior, General Directorate of Civil Society Relations, in order to better understand non-governmental organizations, which are another pillar of policy making. This experience has helped me a lot in gaining knowledge in the fields of laws, regulations, state and civil society relations. In the first year of my university year, I completed two more internships. One of them was my internship at Çankaya District Governor's Office in order to better understand the state regulations and their scope. I had the opportunity to observe a state organization by being in all units of the district governor's office. In addition, I wanted to improve myself in finance, so I applied to the QNB Finansbank internship program and was accepted.After this intership my interest on finance and economics has been increased.During my internship i gained experience regarding economics and i improved my finance skills.