Güven Sak, PhD
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If you cannot protect the İnci Patisserie, you cannot maintain your industry
Those who are not trying to protect İnci Patisserie cannot be considered conservatives. A conservative without tradition is like meat-free sausage or milk-free yoghurt.…
Why Turkey wants Kurdish oil
Diversification is always good, but regional turbulence makes Turkey even more interested in Kurdish oil and natural gas. There are two types of countries in the world –…
What happened at TÜBA happens at CERN
Losing space of autonomy, TÜBA has become an element of administrative organization during the rule of the current government. Science does not like politics. Positive…
Turkish cities are not fond of persons with disabilities
Turkey’s urban governors are not aware that a person who rides a bike worth 100 liras has the same rights as a person who drives a car worth 100,000 liras. Ankara was…
Why is Mohamed Morsi governing badly?
Egypt definitely needs a decentralization strategy. Municipalities are good areas for opposition groups to come of age. Egypt’s president is acting like a business…
Turkey cannot even sweep CERN’s floors
Turkey has chosen to select between companies and persons. With this mentality, it cannot even sweep CERN’s floors. I used to think that it was important only to…
What does a physicist do in Turkey?
Unless Turkey advances from a medium-technology to a high-technology economy, achieving the 2023 targets will remain a sweet dream. According to the Turkish Atomic…
A rising tide lifts all boats in Egypt
Egypt can be an important regional actor only if it has a stronger economy. Egypt has returned to regional leadership. The country played a vital role in brokering a…
Switzerland is a shop on the main street
Switzerland gives and takes back the highest rate of brain drain in the world. There are two types of countries in the world: those on the main street and those on a…
Turkey cannot prosper by exporting rebar
The shares of high-technology exports in total exports are 20 percent in Korea and 3 percent in Turkey. Turkey has been a middle-income country ever since I am able to…
The untold story of Turkey’s soft landing
The contribution of domestic demand to growth has declined to 10 percent, from above 50 percent. I was recently talking to business people interested in green field…
Why was he not using the sidewalk, you say?
Ankara will not become a developed city just because the municipality hangs advertisements on billboards everywhere claiming that it is indeed a developed city. The…