Projects
- Public Engagement in Strategic Planning and Policy Making Project
- Functional-Institutional Review of the State in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
- The Economic Crisis Impact on Industrial Relations National Systems: Policy Responses as Key Recovery Tools
Focus
- Constitution Studies
- USA Studies
- TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator - TEPE
- The TEPAV Employment Monitoring Bulletin
Research and Publications
- The Possibility of “Transformational Partnership” Between Turkey and the EU: Will “Opportunity” Become Reality?
15/05/2012
- Turkey's Interest and Strategies in the South Caucasus
14/05/2012
- Turkey Policy Brief Series - 3/Principles of Turkish Foreign Policy and Regional Political Structuring
19/04/2012
TEPAV Articles
Esen Çağlar - The New Investment Incentive Package and the Other Turkey
09/04/2012
The new investment incentive package was announced at the beginning of April. According to the initial reflections in the media,
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Esen Çağlar - The annual cost of keeping women at home is $574 billion
02/04/2012
Those of you who watched TV in the 90s might have come across a show called S
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Esen Çağlar - The European Union has to be Turkey’s Growth Story
19/03/2012
Ever more of us nowadays think that the crisis in Europe has shaken the foundations of Turkey’s European Union (EU) project. Loo
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Esen Çağlar - What if Mark Zuckerberg joined the army in Turkey?
22/02/2012
If Mark Zuckerberg had not been born in New York but in Istanbul, he would now probably be brooding over when and how to fulfill
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Esen Çağlar - Why the Mark Zuckerbergs of the world don’t live in Turkey
06/02/2012
Facebook is about to go public. The company’s value is estimated at $100 billion and the personal wealth of its 27 year-old foun
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Esen Çağlar - The five differences between the ministries of education in Turkey and the UK
23/01/2012
I actually wanted to continue writing on the issue of sidewalks as we are buried in snow. The municipal mentality that plows the
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Esen Çağlar - Are women in our cities not working because of insufficient subway systems?
09/01/2012
There is a debate we have missed out on due to the tumultuous agenda of the week: The Mayor of the Istanbul, Kadir Topbaş, said
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Esen Çağlar - North vs. South Korea - Eastern vs. Western Turkey?
26/12/2011
When I heard about the death knell of North Korean leader Kim Jong, it took me a second to even remember that there was a countr
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Esen Çağlar - How can Turkey become world’s 10th largest economy with these pavements?
12/12/2011
I spent the last week in three different cities: three days in Istanbul, two days in Paris and two days in Ankara. Lately, whene
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Esen Çağlar - Turkey in between Arab Countries and South Korea: A picture of mediocrity?
28/11/2011
If I was to draw a picture worth a thousand words, it would be the graph below. It shows per capita income in Turkey, Arab coun
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