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Imports and GDP growth
There is strong evidence that the downturn has not stopped in the fourth quarter as argued by officials and that the slowdown has been continuing. On Thursday, foreign…
Indecisive Europe is causing Switzerland to lose its faith
The Swiss are disturbed by Europe’s efforts to deal with the crisis via liquidity injections. Go figure: Switzerland is becoming just like China! No, not because the…
Turning points in the PKK’s fortune
With the fall of the Syrian government, the PKK would not only obtain new arms and logistics capabilities but would also find new recruits. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party…
The dangers of filling the “leisure time”
Addressing the leisure time issue with the wrong perspective and devising policies accordingly can harm the quality of education in Turkey which is already low. The…
Will the adjustment cost for the TCC go beyond 6 billion?
Turkey increases the public disclosure burden on small enterprises while the U.S. does the opposite. The lower the cost of adjustment to a law is, the more smoothly that…
Teachers and leisure time
You need better trained teachers and academics so as to offer better education. So, the “leisure times” of these profession groups must be assessed with this…
Why can’t Turks speak English yet?
Diplomats are good at making comparisons to the past, especially if they are posted to the same place multiple times. I was recently talking to a foreign diplomat in…
Completely out of control
“Just let it go and wait for the ECB to step in, monetize and pay their due debts." Spain’s prime minister Mariona Rajoy has called on the European Central Bank (ECB) to…
What is the deal with the number 49?
Some companies in France are making keen efforts not to employ one more person to increase the number of employees to 50. According to a recent story in Bloomberg…
The institutionalization of sycophancy
Lately, I have become convinced that it would be useful to form the legislation and execution via separate elections. I was born in the first half of the 1960s. Süleyman…
Kurdish oil, the pipeline, and the PKK
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Necirvan Barzani paid a visit to Ankara last week. The Turkish government showed him great hospitality, because there…
Caution: Risk of material fatigue
I hope the extensive use of the policy tool (the material) does not cause a fatigue. So, how everything started? Before the global crisis, many countries already had…