In this paper, we consider an extension of cycle-complete graph Ramsey numbers to Berge cycles in hypergraphs: for k ≥ 2, a non-trivial Berge k-cycle is a family of sets e 1 , e 2 , . . . , e k such that e 1 ∩e 2 , e 2 ∩e 3 , . . . , e k ∩e 1 has a system of distinct representatives and e 1 ∩ e 2 ∩ • • • ∩ e k = ∅. In the case that all the sets e i have size three, let B k denotes the family of all non-trivial Berge k-cycles. The Ramsey numbers R(t, B k ) denote the minimum n such that every n-vertex 3-uniform hypergraph contains either a non-trivial Berge k-cycle or an independent set of size t. We proveand moreover, we show that if a conjecture of Erdős and Simonovits [11] on girth in graphs is true, then this is tight up to a factor t o(1) as t → ∞.