Turkey is currently in a political transition process – a very orderly one so far. Let me tell you what we know as of this Friday. We have a new...
I think I first heard it from Bernard Lewis – Turks’ endless fascination in moving westwards. He writes of the move from Central Asia into Anatolia...
My niece Ela is seven. Yesterday we were chatting. She said, “my pattern is obvious. First I am skinny, than I put on weight. This is followed by a...
Reading the Obama interview of Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, I have come to the conclusion that we still do not know how to go from...
I was lately struck by a rather recent story from Gaziantep, Turkey. It is so ordinary and so horrible at the same time. It is about part-time...
Our deputy prime minister, Bülent Arınç, recently let slip his opinion that “women should not laugh in front of everybody” Why does he think so?...
Turkey is about to set sail in uncharted waters. Starting August 29, we are going to have a directly elected President. That is the date for the...
I attended a meeting on the need for global infrastructure investments the other day. One of the speakers said, “If corruption were an industry, it...
On the plane to Sydney, Australia, this week, I took to reading Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar’s The Time Regulation Institute (1961). I had time; the flight...
It was in the Bloomberg Businessweek the other day...