Güven Sak, PhD
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Can you imagine James Taggart guiding the economic policy of a country?
Last week I asked , “Can a country be run like a company?” and stressed in particular that the issue raised by Mr. Erdoğan is in fact a very interesting debate from an…
Turkey doesn’t get the issue of climate change
Are you aware that Turkey is an extremely inward-looking country? We do not follow what goes on in the world at all. We don’t pay much heed to the world. We don’t know…
First we have to stop dreaming of conquest during this defeat
Have I pointed out before that this Twitter is a great communication medium? Well, let me say that again. A while ago , I asked why company managers think they are doing…
Imagine what Turks went through during WWI
On March 18, 1915, British and French naval forces launched a campaign on Turkish positions in the Dardanelles. They failed. The date has been ingrained in my head since…
Can you manage a country like you manage a company?
Can you manage a country like you manage a company? The issue raised by Mr. Erdoğan recently is in my opinion a very interesting framework for debate and one that is not…
The British are doing what the Turks should have done
The highlight of the last week came from beyond the ocean. The headline of the Financial Times last Friday was “US attacks UK’s ‘constant accommodation’ with China.”…
Why do Turks overestimate themselves?
They do! That, at least, is what a recent survey says. According to the OECD, only 3% of people in Turkey say that they are underqualified for their current jobs. The…
Why are the Turks obsessed with the interest rate?
We have been here before. It has been more than a decade and a half since our country’s politics steered our economy into the ditch. We must not have learned our lesson.…
If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys
Turkey has lost the chance of success by doing everything exactly the way it has done so far. Staying the same used to be a possibility, but not anymore. That’s why…
What’s the trouble with Turkey?
Denmark has had no majority government since 1982. Turkey, on the other hand, has been ruled by a tight single party majority since 2002. That is 33 years of debate and…
Have you heard the cry of Özgecan?
Özgecan Aslan was a 20-year old university student. She was killed in a private bus after an attempted rape in Tarsus, between Mersin and Adana on the southern coast of…
Greek debt no longer a technical problem
The European Union has approached the Greek debt problem as a technical one up until now. Greek governments used to share that perspective. No more. Alexis Tsipras and…