Teachers cannot go beyond the textbook, encourage students to read newspapers, or write movie critiques. TEPAV and the British Council recently...

The population of Jordan is less than 7 million, in comparison to Turkey’s more than 70 million. However, the 1 million Syrian refugees might have...

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...