I believe that political polarization has been blocking our way and reducing our luck. The US has the same problem. Politicians love political...

  I was at the Prague Enlargement Dialogue meeting last week, where I was asked whether the prolonged accession process had led to reform fatigue ...

  At the outset of beating the odds lies the courage to confront history. The EU has been courageous enough,  ASEAN has not. The European Union...

  The political situation in Syria is changing. Bashar al-Assad’s army maintains operational capacity, but it has lost most of northern Syria. ...

  The number of SMEs operating in Turkey with EU capital has increased from 4,000 in 2003 to 15,000. Turkey’s per capita GDP has reached 50% of the...

  Turkey’s economy and public life today is deprived of the skills and creativity of half of its population. Turkish women do not get jobs....

  Turkey is a country where you can rent a car; India is not. But there are interesting similarities between the two countries. There are two...

  The best exit strategy for Turkey is to hope for the creation of a negotiation table in Syria. In Syria, as the number of dead and refugees...

  The share of FX liabilities in the Central Bank’s total debt rose from 44 to 67 percent. On Tuesday, I addressed the positive aspects of the...

  In Turkey, as spending on housing contributes more to the GDP, the domestic savings rate decreases. Turkey is not like China. When it achieves...