What do coffeehouses and the Internet have in common? Both, believe it or not, are mediums of information exchange. What’s the problem with them?...

After the Gezi Park incident, Istanbul Mayor Kadir Topbaş said, “I won’t even change the location of a bus stop without asking the people.” I think...

The meaning of the grocery business is changing; as is every other form of business. The “small grocery stores against supermarkets” story has...

The Turkish Statistical Institution released a survey late last year showing the country’s internet population is predominantly urban, male and...

The responsibility of these does not fall exclusively on the Central Bank. It would be extremely unfair to claim so; but so would to ignore the role...

The current size of the creative class should be improved. Each city should have a higher share of the Gezi Park community. Otherwise, there will...

What would the unemployment rate be if labor force participation rate sharply surged to a level close to that in the troubled countries of...

Countries which become more unbalanced in an age of declining global imbalances are called vulnerable. It was quite some time ago, in the first...

If the below table is considered an indicator of how Turkish economy shines like a star, I am really concerned about the future; because if so we are...

We appear to be living in an age of current account reversals. Just have a look at the graph below, taken from a TEPAV study. If you take both the...