No one has thought just for ten minutes with a holistic perspective what it is like for children to grow up in Ankara. What is the link between not...

Can a country home to the ‘Hello Fatih’ scandal achieve the income level of rich countries? First of all, I have nothing in common with my namesake...

Expected rates float above the targets. So do realizations. This is a critical mistake Number four on the policy mistakes lists is the policy to...

If Turkey wants to be an important actor, it should just maintain a solid economy and strong democracy, that’s it. A foreign diplomat asked me this...

Looking for a positive figure on the Turkish economy? Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) figures might help. They were around $1 billion per year in...

If you are wondering what has happened in Turkey over the last five years, take a look at the employment statistics. Turkey’s labor force is ...

GDP growth will be a meager 4 percent in 2013. Turkey has suffered a “high current account deficit-low GDP growth” challenge in the last two years....

I think it is time to separate women’s affairs from the Ministry of Family and Social Policy. Women’s issues exist in Turkey. I don’t know if you...

Turkey has made critical economic policy mistakes over the last couple of years, which increased the risk perception. Let’s start from the moment and...

Remember the famous mathematical formula for corruption? You have three major variables: sum up monopoly power in decision making and discretionary...