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Why will Turkey be affected more severely?
The reason why Turkey would be affected more severely by the mentioned global circumstances if faced today is that today Turkey is encountered with bigger…
Unnecessary statements
Instead of confusing statements, take steps to overcome the mentioned vulnerability, which clearly attracts attention under the current global circumstances. It was the…
‘Let’s go to Tahrir’ in Nicosia
I have noted some time ago that there are two types of countries in the Middle East, the ones that require demonstrations in their Tahrir Squares to initiate change and…
No asphalt roads, no automobiles.
The pictures below of two families from Egypt and Chad, respectively, are good course materials for understanding the technology content of the import demands of the two…
How can Turkey benefit from Gen Petraeus’ experience?
Last week, Turkey had an important visitor: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the U.S. secretary of state. Her appearance on TV overlooking the Bosphorus with President Abdullah…
Unemployment, budget and the crisis at the doorstep
We can back the measures against heating up by raising taxes on certain consumption goods. Findings concerning the financial crisis in many countries suggest that the…
Will external conditions cool down the economy?
Given Italy's condition, the challenges facing the European Union have grown. In such milieu, caution can be expected in both demand side and supply side. One way to…
No new orders from Syria since the New Year
Syria is among the top five trading partners of Kocaeli. It seems that the country's lack of an industrial strategy will be very costly. Recently I visited Kocaeli, an…
Preventing evaporation: What to do?
I believe that to ease the heating up, the fiscal policy should be tightened. Let me begin with a thesis that I cannot understand. There are some who think that when you…
It's the politics, stupid
For a professional economist, the global crisis is a heaven-sent opportunity to observe what is normally unobservable. Crises are good laboratories. Nowadays, I am…
Turkish companies rank first in World Bank tenders
Companies that built highways and big construction projects in the Özal period today have become giants which seek business opportunities on the global scale. Recently a…