We do not call them Islamic banks in Turkey. Banks are banks, administrative apparatuses. In the past, they were termed “Special Finance...

I was reading the key findings of the Transatlantic Trends (TTs) 2014 survey the other day. One of them is Turks’ growing discontent with immigrants....

I have often been asked about the housing prices in Turkey lately. My questioners often want to confirm their sense that the housing bubble is going...

Turkey is currently in a political transition process – a very orderly one so far. Let me tell you what we know as of this Friday. We have a new...

I think I first heard it from Bernard Lewis – Turks’ endless fascination in moving westwards. He writes of the move from Central Asia into Anatolia...

My niece Ela is seven. Yesterday we were chatting. She said, “my pattern is obvious. First I am skinny, than I put on weight. This is followed by a...

Reading the Obama interview of Thomas Friedman in the New York Times, I have come to the conclusion that we still do not know how to go from...

I was lately struck by a rather recent story from Gaziantep, Turkey. It is so ordinary and so horrible at the same time. It is about part-time...

Our deputy prime minister, Bülent Arınç, recently let slip his opinion that “women should not laugh in front of everybody” Why does he think so?...