In 2012, Turkey made the Ro-Ro agreement with Egypt, which allowed its goods easier access to Middle Eastern markets. The agreement is going to...

In 2012, Mexico was the first emerging economy to lead the G20. So Turkey is not first. But those out there with unhealthy “first time ever”...

I have been hearing two seemingly contradictory tales about Turkey’s transformation lately. One ends with the AKP’s election victory in 2002, while...

People seem to think that Turkey has changed in some basic way in the past couple of years, that the system of 80 million people somehow shifted its...

Internal migration made Turkey. Families packing up and leaving their hometowns has been one of the major building blocks of our growth model. But no...

Santa Claus is a citizen of Turkey - or he would have been if he was living today. In the third century, he was known as Saint Nicholas of Myra,...

It takes courage to accept failure. President Obama showed the world that he can learn from the facts and abandon a long-failed policy. Because US...

What comes to your mind when you think about the Middle East? For me, it’s the low level of connectivity. Here we have  a region composed of clammed...

I was in Israel last week, where I saw a Picture of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and his wife, posing with their youngest son who is about to be...

Since the onset of the financial crisis, the G 20 Forum, whose membership consists of systemically important advanced and emerging economies, has...