Most of the OIC countries have closed and heavily controlled economies and they don’t trade enough among themselves. Because their governments...
Any country willing to undertake a regional role has to go beyond rural coffee talk. The other day in Barcelona, an official from a company that...
To be able to assess the countries of the region with a different perspective, Turkey has to compile data. You cannot easily become the...
In the past, Syria has sponsored Kurdish rebels inside Turkey. Now Turkey seems to be sponsoring a similar insurgency inside Syria. There are...
The key challenge is to enrich the people and strengthen the middle class. Without a strong middle class, Turkey cannot become a high-income...
If Turkey could improve its female labor force participation rate to that of South Korea, it could have a national income of $1.1 trillion today....
Women in Turkey do not work. I think that our cities are simply not women-friendly environments. Women in Turkey just don’t work. Our country has...
Yes, two Greeks make one German in terms of productivity. But two Turks hardly make a Greek. The world has been changing constantly. Even the...
Turkey can change its fate only by diversifying trade activities towards the east. But of course, trade diversification is not an easy task. How...
It is thanks to the Tahrir revolutionaries that the ballot box has finally come to Egypt. I was in Cairo this week and met with many different...