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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…
Kurds, Arabs and Turks
It will be no surprise if Turkey ends up being the most confused actor in such a scenario in which Kurds and Turkmens, half of them Shiite, will be facing Sunni Arabs…
Getting a clear signal in all the noise
Abundance of data sometimes causes a lot of “noise.” And it is a difficult task to get a clear signal in the noise. Turkey used to be an absolutely “data-poor” country,…
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…
The pursuit of transparency (4)
We don’t know the CBT’s estimations of credit growth rate under different scenarios on external conditions. Inflation reports are among the key communication tools of…
The pursuit of transparency (3)
The CBT can fulfill the authorities granted by the relevant law more easily if it helps economic actors shape healthy inflation and interest rate expectations. The…
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…
Israel’s Gaza operation and the PKK problem
Öcalan’s role was downplayed by the Turkish media, which is busying itself with a less risky subject: Israel’s Gaza operation. This is not a piece about the effects of…
Lessons Turkey can take from Japan
With its production structure driven by external demand, the output of the automotive sector decreased inevitably. Japan’s exports in the first ten months of the year…