Güven Sak, PhD
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“I am currently feeling what the figures will tell you two months from now”
A few days ago, a businessman while explaining senior bureaucrats the problems companies in his city face said "I am currently feeling what the figures will tell you two…

The reform decreases corruption perception and increases public satisfaction
First findings of the research "Vision of the Society about Public Administration and Public Services" were recently announced. The research was carried out by Fikret…

To what degree we are ready for the Everlasting Trials Period
Are your aware that the process we are in has an everlasting period? Barack Obama, new US President explained what this period meant in the best way possible. A few days…

The ostrich tactic did not work; the global crisis is now the crisis of Turkey
There are different ecoles of people. Nowadays we are familiar with the kind that makes unnecessary explanations. While the global crisis becomes the crisis of Turkey,…

What kind of a thinking shall be employed about the crisis?
We are in the middle of the biggest economic crisis of the era and we are still confused. There are two dominant approaches: The former desperately argues that there is…

How shall the corporate sector respond to the crisis? First challenge is the ‘You do not say embarrassment’
We are living the deepest and most far reaching crisis of the world history. The crisis is approaching our shores in full flood. Did you notice the emphasis: It has not…

What is that smell over the Balkans this time?
In 1930s, Rebecca West writing about the Balkans said "I hate the corpses of empires, they stink as nothing else." Back in that decade, Austria-Hungary Empire and the…

Is it licit that banks are restructured by bank managers?
The answer is: No, it is not. Let us see why. The main problem of our world, nowadays, is that, it has not changed despite a whole year passed. The source of the problem…

The ones missing the essence of the matter will just be laughed at
Life is becoming harder and harder for the ones missing the dynamics of the global economic crisis. Are you aware of the local example that is apparent with all aspects?…

Is February 3rd good or bad?
I wonder whether anyone told President Obama to "Beware of the February 3 rd ". We cannot know the answer. If the two developments that happened on the third day of…

When does protectionism become a legitimate argument?
Two days ago British people were making a protest with the slogan "British jobs for British workers". The world is going through a process not we are unfamiliar with but…

Okay, but what do the people living in Gaza thinks?
Have you ever seen Gaza? The first time I saw Gaza was in 2005. Israel had just retreated from Gaza. It was the times of the disengagement policy of Ariel Sharon. Gaza…