The current size of the creative class should be improved. Each city should have a higher share of the Gezi Park community. Otherwise, there will...

Countries which become more unbalanced in an age of declining global imbalances are called vulnerable. It was quite some time ago, in the first...

We appear to be living in an age of current account reversals. Just have a look at the graph below, taken from a TEPAV study. If you take both the...

While Turkey has yet to deal with the issues brought by the industrial revolution, the questions raised by the ICT response are already waiting to...

We have recently realized with the Edward Snowden case that security organizations have been using a gigantic set of data about our lives without...

Tapering has revealed the vulnerability of the Turkish economy. What is Turkey’s problem? The current account deficit is going to be too high, the...

I started with shopping malls and digressed to corruption and the parallel state. I feel that I should not go any further. The biggest building in...

Let me tell you how: be creative and focus on the right measures. Change urbanization policies. “In the heart of Ankara, in Kızılay, stores on busy...

Looking for a difference in attitude between the Turks and the Europeans? Let me tell you one. Turks do not trust each other but have a deep-seated...

hat is this about, the quality of the education at Harvard or the investment climate in Turkey? I vote for the second. I have been thinking about...