Projects
- A Confidence-Building and Reconciliation Field Guide for More Sustainable and Efficient Turkish-Armenian Cross-Border Partnerships
- Preparation of Turkey’s Second National Communication Project
- Preventing Unregistered Employment Project (KADİP)
Focus
- Constitution Studies
- USA Studies
- TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator - TEPE
- The TEPAV Employment Monitoring Bulletin
Research and Publications
- Turkey Policy Brief Series-1/Meeting the Geopolitical Challenges of the Arab Spring: A Call for a joint EU-Turkish Agenda
31/01/2012
- Reflecting on the Two Decades of Bridging the Divide: Taking Stock of Turkish-Armenian Civil Society Activities
11/01/2012
- Will a “Turkic Spring” Follow the “Arab Spring?”
30/12/2011
Commentary/Fatih Özatay: Zero interest rate
Should the interest rate will go zero in line with the Friedman rule and if the normal real interest rate aimed at 2 percent, inflation has to be -2 percent. 21/02/2012 - "There is one subject I did not write about as it did not attract attention when it was raised: ‘Zero interest rate’. Today I would like to address it wit ... [More]
Commentary/Güven Sak: It is poor children who become paint-thinner addicts
One out of every four children in Turkey lives in a poor household. The OECD average for child poverty is 12.6 percent. 21/02/2012 - "According to OECD figures, Turkey is among the countries where child poverty is the highest. Prime minister Erdoğan recently jumped on the opposition part ... [More]
Commentary / Nihat Ali Özcan: "Contribution to MİT Debate"
How far could Turkish security personnel (TAF, the gendarmerie, the police, MİT) be disposed to do their job and provide quality service in light of these developments? 16/02/2012 - "Details of the negotiations carried out behind closed doors between the National Intelligence Organization (MİT) and the PKK have been brought into the op ... [More]
“The Constitution Platform - Citizens’ Meeting”, February 19, Diyarbakır
The first meeting of the Constitution Platform – Turkey Speaks Citizens’ Meetings was held in Ankara, followed by the second meeting in Konya and the third in Edirne. 16/02/2012 - ANKARA - The fourth meeting of the “Turkey Speaks: Citizens’ Meetings” series will be held in Diyarbakır on Sunday, February 19, 2012. The series is presented ... [More]
Constitution, Constitution Making, Constitution Platform, Public Participation, Civil Society,European Commissioner Georgieva: “We owe the current mechanism to lessons we learned during the Marmara Earthquake of 1999”
European Commissioner Georgieva visited TEPAV before her visit to Van and explained how the Marmara earthquake of 1999 helped them shape the current assistance mechanism. 09/02/2012 - ANKARA – Kristalina Georgieva, European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, delivered remarks at a meeting he ... [More]
European Union, Crises, Earthquake, Humanitarian Aid,
Retailers Lose Hope by the End of January 2012 The TEPE fell sharply in January 2012 to -1.7.
02/02/2012
ANKARA - In January 2012, the TEPE decreased by 9.2 points year-on-year. Non-adjusted serieses of TEPE hit the lowest value since December 2010. Expectatio
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
23,359 People Benefit from Unemployment Insurance Only one out of 100 unemployed receives benefits.
01/02/2012
ANKARA- In October 2011, the number of unemployed people who received unemployment insurance benefits from the Turkish Employment Agency (İŞKUR) was 23,359
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Employment, Unemployment Insurance, Unemployment,
New Policy Brief Series by TEPAV and IPLI The new monthly publication titled “Turkey Policy Brief Series”, launched by TEPAV and IPLI, will cover policy notes and briefs by highly recognized Turkish and international policy experts, analysts and practitioners.
31/01/2012
ANKARA/PARIS - TEPAV and International Policy and Leadership Institute (IPLI) have launched “Turkey Policy Brief Series” that will offer analytical coverage o
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Turkish Politics, Turkish Foreign Policy, Region,
TEPAV’s Agenda: “Arab Democratic Wave” One Year After… Assessing the grassroots movements in the North African and Arab countries, Alvaro de Vasconcelos, Director of European Union Institute for Security Studies, associates the democracy in the Middle East with Turkey’s EU membership.
30/01/2012
ANKARA – With a meeting held at TEPAV, successive grassroots movements in North African and Arab countries which started one year ago were addressed. The m
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Arab Spring, Democracy, Middle East, European Union, North Africa,
TEPAV Constitution Experts Seminar Series - 7. Prof. Gylfason: "High-Inflation Countries Need Detailed Constitutions." Professor Thorvaldur Gylfason, member of the Icelandic Constitutional Assembly, stated that the new constitution-making process in Iceland had been initiated with the “pots-and-pans revolution” after the economic crash of 2008.
24/01/2012
ANKARA – On Tuesday, January 24, 2012, a meeting titled “Making a New Constitution: The Case of Iceland” was held at TEPAV in the context of the Constituti
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Constitution, Constitution Making, Public Participation, Global Financial Crisis,
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