Güven Sak, PhD
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Where will the exchange rate head?
The economy has accumulated risks during the process of uncontrolled growth. The exchange rate adjustment is seen as a remedy to this problem. It appears that the…
I am at the Erzurum-REDEVCO Shopping Mall
Women in Erzurum participate in business life more. Erzurum is changing as Turkey is changing. Yesterday this tweet was on Twitter: "I am at Erzurum REDEVCO Shopping…
TRT-Arabic in action
TRT, Turkey’s public broadcaster, launched its Arabic-language station about a year ago. This was supposed to be the landmark for Turkey’s return to the region. What a…
Meanwhile on TRT-Arabic...
It is not France but Turkey that is the natural extension of Europe's soft power in its region. The Prime Minister of Turkey is making a successful official trip through…
Sending non-Muslims away was a bad idea
Regional disparity is an important issue in Turkey. Take for example, the top 1,000 industrial companies list of the Istanbul Chamber of Industry (ISO-1000). Have you…
Political stability does not guarantee policy stability
Second generation reforms are closely connected to how business is done and are associated with the structure of the public administration. Can Turkey become the tenth…
In whose shoes I would never like to be?
The fact that the number of persons in whose shoes no one would like to be is increasing implies that we are in a process of deep transformation. Nowadays, I do not know…
Karl Marx in corporate boardrooms
If Marx was right in his opening remarks of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" in 1852, then is he in trouble? Remember the opening lines? "Hegel remarks…
What a contrast!
It is wrong to issue decrees that will confuse investors instead of taking steps to ensure that the new Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) functions properly. The parenthesis…
The Chilean Winter is not so different from the Arab Spring
Throughout the world, the middle-class has a problem. From this perspective, the Chilean Spring is not so different from the Arab Spring. Camila Vallejo Dowling was born…
End of Mickey Mouse state in Libya
Libya is one of those countries where two cultures meet with each other in a rather visible fashion. Do you remember the opening observations of Trotsky in "Russian…
I want to read news about innovation
Making local authorities compete for industrialization is one of the best aspects of the Chinese model. These days the news in the papers has been depressing me. One…