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Gezi spirit and the twitter wars prevail
I have to thank Türk Telekom for reminding me yesterday morning that Turks, well at least 50 % of them, are celebrating the first anniversary of the Gezi Park incident…
Turkey’s Misery Index and the shy rate cut
Remember the old Misery Index of Arthur Okun and Robert Barro from the past? It is simply the sum of the unemployment and inflation rates. When it was first invented in…
Why are more Turks dying for a ton of coal?
Turkey is mourning for its losses in Soma. A record number of miners have lost their lives. The death toll is creeping to 300, making it comparable only to the 19th or…
Growing pains in Turkey
Turkey is a country in flux. My personal history happens to cover all the major parts of my country’s transformation. I was born in the western part of Turkey in 1961.…
Why Turks cannot make long term plans
“Turkish economy still vulnerable to reversal of capital flow” reads the headline. It was a piece published last week by an S&P analyst on the dynamics of the Turkish…
Malaysia and Turkey: similar or not?
The prime minister of Malaysia, Najib Razzak, was recently in Turkey. The two countries signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA). As I was listening to Razzak talking about…
EU still means hope in Turkish
The results from two different surveys surfaced last week. Both show the attitude of Turks towards the European Union (EU). Lately, Turks’ frustration with the EU has…
Twitter wars continue in Ankara
What is our elites’ problem with the Internet? Let me tell you the brief answer: They simply don’t know what it is for. Of course, they individually use I-pads,…
Guess, who has won the elections in Turkey?
Now that the people of Turkey have voted, we now have to decide what they have said. The first question: Who was victorious in the elections in Turkey last Sunday, March…
Flash in the pan
Turkish markets have been interesting to watch lately. I see a kind of serenity in them, if not optimism in the last two or three days. Why is that so? Any change in the…
What is the purpose of the Ankara Department of Urban Aesthetics?
In Ankara, there are 52 clock towers, each one uglier than the next, spattered along the roadsides. There are two types of cities: those which are oriented toward…
First as a tragedy, second as farce
Twitter was on when I went to bed Thursday night (March 20). There was no twitter when I woke up Friday morning (March 21). So started the eradication campaign the prime…