Güven Sak, PhD
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To improve the sophistication in production, Turkey has to educate dynamic engineers. It has to increase the number of Da Vincis against that of Dilberts. Turkey needs…
If you cannot create a new world, you have to bear with the old one
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BDP represents Kurdish Turks
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What does an engineer do in Turkey?
The problem is about the system. Engineers in Turkey do not practice engineering because of deindustrialization. I grew up watching the Star Trek series. The USS…
The ethnic conflict in Cyprus is turning into a greater game
Cyprus was already a rather complex problem. The discovery of natural gas reserves around the island has made it even harder to disentangle. There are two communities on…
Turkey does not consume meat and milk
In Turkey, the kilogram price of milk in 2010 was €0.89. Compared to the EU average, milk prices are 30 percent higher and milk consumption is 40 percent lower.…