Güven Sak, PhD
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How to picture doing business in Turkey?
Let me help you. I came across this photo on the internet the other day. Have a look at it, if you would like to get an idea about the business environment in Turkey. It…
Are we going on the Karatay Diet?
The MTP does not foresee an improvement in public savings. If public savings are constant while revenues increase, then the plan is to increase expenditures as well. Two…
How many people can fly a remotely piloted aircraft?
1300 RPA pilots were employed in the US Army as of 2013, making up 8.5 percent of the total. I believe that Turkey is not aware of the change, though the change is…
The disparity of perceptions on Turkey
Sometimes who you are and how others perceive you are two completely different things. The GE Innovation Scoreboard on the perceptions of policy environments towards…
Has Turkey struck oil or something?
What I think Turkey needs is to focus on the task rather than to talk. About a month ago in Yalta, Turkey’s minister of European Union affairs, talking on Turkey’s EU…
The Turkish state is Internet illiterate
The Turkish state is Internet-illiterate. It has no interest in the progress of the Internet economy. The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2013 was recently announced. The…
The politics of polarized country
Actions speak louder than words. The Constitutional Reconciliation Commission in Ankara’s Parliament is still working. In principle, all of the four political parties…
Let's both eat and lose weight
It's good that Turkey has a medium-term plan, but I don't understand how we can increase our domestic savings rate while at the same time maintain growth based on…
Obama too will know his place
Everyone has to know his or her place, including President Obama, who is in his second term as the leader of the most powerful country of the world. The US government…
Wonder why Iran has invented Rouhani?
I was at a TEPAV-BP-Energy Ministry event when I saw why Iran had invented Hasan Rouhani: in 2011, the major disruption to the supply of oil was the Libyan uprising…
YÖK is a lost cause
YÖK is a body of political tutelage and has nothing to do with higher education, established to expand the rule of martial law to the universities. Lately, I have been…
Would you embark on an investment with a return of forty years?
At this rate, the twenty-first century will not be Turkey’s century. There will be no Turkish miracle like the Korean miracle. Not by producing small fry and accepting a…