Davutoğlu’s Visit to Kirkuk and the Iraqi Turkmens Evaluation Note / Hüseyin Raşit Yılmaz
03/08/2012- 2638
"...The unexpected visit of Turkey’s foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoğlu, to Kirkuk brought up the Iraqi Turkmens, an issue long forgotten within the context of the heated foreign policy agenda. Everyone, even those who are familiar with his senti
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Iraq, Turkish Foreign Policy,
GEP Turkey Releases a Bulletin The bulletin covered the activities and events carried out in the context of the Entrepreneurship Delegation to Turkey.
03/08/2012- 2049
ANKARA – Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP) Turkey, which is joint effort of TEPAV, TOBB and the U.S. State Department, released a bulletin on the activities and events carried out in the context of the Entrepreneurship Delegation to Turkey (
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GEP-TR, Entrepreneurship ,
Expectations in the Retail Sector Stagnate TEPE which was been standing in the negatives since January had a value of -5.1 in July 2012.
02/08/2012- 1559
ANKARA – The TEPAV Retail Confidence Index (TEPE) showed a slight improvement in July following the fall in June. TEPE therefore marked a 1.5 point month-on-month increase and a 5.8 point year-on-year decrease.
The balance value of the expectat
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TEPAV Retail Confidence Indicator (TEPE) , Retailing Sector,
TEPAV Wins in “the Oscars of the Think-Tank World” TEPAV’s work for the constitution studies brought it the third prize in the European Think Tank of the Year Awards 2012.
01/08/2012- 2674
ANKARA – TEPAV won the third place in the European Think Tank of the Year Awards 2012, organized by British magazine Prospect and known as the “Oscars of the think tank world”.
The relevant statement in prestigious British magazine Prospect said,
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Think-tanks,
Joshua W. Walker / The Spirit of the Truman Doctrine: 65 Years of Strategic Partnership between the United States and Turkey The fourth edition of the Turkey Policy Brief Series is authored by Joshua W. Walker, Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund Responsible for its Turkey Program.
20/07/2012- 3361
"The Truman Doctrine of 1947 set the course for a proactive and progressive US foreign policy that was motivated by a vision of an America that led from a position of unwavering strength with strategic allies across the globe. Unlike empires of old
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Turkish Foreign Policy, Turkish - American Relations, The Truman Doctrine,
Turkey’s Fastest Growth Companies Prepared to Become Global Players in the United States Delegates from the Turkey 25 companies paid a five-day visit to the US, one of the toughest markets in the world.
19/07/2012- 2487
BOSTON/WASHINGTON – Turkey’s 25 fastest growth companies, selected by the “Turkey 25” program, paid a visit to the US between July 9 and 13, 2012 in order to strengthen their global economic connections.
The visit was organized by TOBB, TEPAV, All
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Entrepreneurship , Turkish - American Relations,
The Number of Housewives Increased by 496,000 Annually As of the end of March, population out of the labor force grew by 868,000 year-on-year.
14/07/2012- 3186
ANKARA – Labor force participation rate as of the end of March decreased to 49.4 percent. As a result, the population out of the labor force grew by 868,000 people, 496,000 being housewives.
The eighth issue of the TEPAV Employment Monitoring B
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Employment, Employment Statistics, Women's Employment,
Industrial Relations Practices as a Response to the Impact of the Economic Crisis Discussed in Brussels Experts from partner organizations including TEPAV, from six EU-member and non-member countries came together in Brussels as a part of the EU-funded project.
06/07/2012- 1824
BRUSSELS – As part of the Project titled “The Economic Crisis Impact on Industrial Relations National Systems: Policy Responses As Key Recovery Tools”, experts from Bulgaria, Estonia, Poland, Croatia, Macedonia and Turkey came together for a study
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Global Financial Crisis, Industry, European Union, Social Policy,
What’s New at the New Turkish Commercial Code? (3) By Sarp Kalkan, TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst
06/07/2012- 3056
Compliance cost matters: Recent amendments to the code
As our column for the past two days have shown, the new Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) will bring numerous innovations to Turkish business life. Lately these changes have been discussed exte
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Turkey's New Commercial Code, Innovation, Technology,
What’s New at the New Turkish Commercial Code? (2) By Sarp Kalkan, TEPAV Economic Politics Analyst
05/07/2012- 2105
Yesterday we started to explore the new Turkish Commercial Code, (TCC) which aims to improve corporate governance in Turkish companies. We covered the new rules governing the Board of Directors (BoD) as well as shareholder democracy. Let’s continue
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Turkey's New Commercial Code, Technology, Governance, Transparency,
