The Constitution Platform Revives Reviving after the acceleration of efforts to make a new constitution in the TGNA, the Constitution Platform is to hold provincial meetings with broad participation.
26/12/2011- 2083
ANKARA – The Constitution Platform established in 2007 under the leadership of the TOBB and with the participation of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) is rallying. The Platform will search for “common sense” for the constitution-making proce
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Constitution Making, Constitution Platform, Constitution, Public Participation,
Evaluation Note/Burcu Gültekin Punsmann, PhD Is the French Bill Hate Speech Regulation?
21/12/2011- 1754
"It is presumed by its advocates that the bill for the criminalization of the denial of the ‘Armenian Genocide’ introduced to the French Assemblée Nationale is intending to approximate the French criminal law provisions as required by the EU Frame
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Turkey - Armenia Relations, France,
Policy Note/Selim Koru & Jesper Åkesson Turkey’s English Deficit
21/12/2011- 3789
"In a popular television comedy, a nervous character one night barges into his coworker’s apartment. 'It’s all over, over I tell you!' he shouts. Their company, he says, is being bought up by Americans. He drops on the sofa, hands covering his face
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Education , Foreign Language,
Israel Model Addressed for “Matchmaking” US-Turkish Companies in R&D Applicability of the model that successfully matched the US and Israeli firms for R&D projects to Turkey discussed.
20/12/2011- 2660
ANKARA - TEPAV organized a meeting as a part of the Global Entrepreneurship Program (GEP)-Turkey that brought together representatives from institutions that support technology development and the innovation system in Turkey, to have a better under
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R&D, Private Sector, Entrepreneurship , Turkish - American Relations, GEP-TR,
Iraq after the US Withdrawal … Speaking at TEPAV, Joost Hiltermann of the International Crisis Group stated that Exxon contract was a test for Iraq in turbulence after the withdrawal.
19/12/2011- 1790
ANKARA – After last US troops withdrew from Iraq, the current state of affairs in the country was addressed with a meeting held at TEPAV on December 19, 2011, Monday. The roundtable meeting titled “After the US Withdrawal: Turkey, Iraq and the E
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Iran, Middle East, Energy, Security, Iraq,
Policy Note/Sarp Kalkan Growth Record Albeit the “Tightened” Monetary Policy
16/12/2011- 1692
"Turkey has demonstrated a noteworthy growth performance in a period when the ongoing debt crisis in Europe turned first into a banking crisis and then into a political crisis. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew year-on-year by 8.2 percent, the seco
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Growth,
Merih Celasun 2011 Award Winner Announced Merih Celasun 2011 Award given to the article titled "Agricultural Productivity and Growth in Turkey" by Prof. Ayşe İmrohoroğlu and Prof. Selahattin İmrohoroğlu of South Califonia University and Dr. Murat Üngör of the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey.
16/12/2011- 2396
ANKARA- The Competition for the Merih Celasun Awards launched by TEPAV has ended. Winner of this first competition was the study titled "Agricultural Productivity and Growth in Turkey" by Prof. Ayşe İmrohoroğlu and Prof. Selahattin İmrohoroğlu of S
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Turkish Economy, Merih Celasun Memorial Day, Growth, Productivity, Agriculture,
Commentary/Esen Çağlar: How can Turkey become world’s 10th largest economy with these pavements? TEPAV Economic Policy Analyst Esen Çağlar assessed Turkey's goal to become the tenth largest economy of the world, this time with reference to the urbanization experience.
12/12/2011- 2290
"I spent the last week in three different cities: three days in Istanbul, two days in Paris and two days in Ankara. Lately, whenever I leave Ankara, questions about city planning run through my mind. The biggest question I had after the two d
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Urbanization, Life Quality, Turkish Economy,
“EU-Turkey Relations: Towards Visa Liberalization?” TEPAV organized a meeting in partnership with the ESI that wants to use its experience in the Western Balkans to help initiate a visa liberalization process for Turkey.
06/12/2011- 2470
ANKARA – TEPAV organized a roundtable meeting on November 6, 2011, Tuesday in partnership with European Stability Initiative (ESI), a think-tank that has conducted a major project on visa liberalization for the Western Balkans and contributed to it
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EU - Turkey Relations, EU Accession, The Balkans, Visa Liberalization,
TOBB&TEPAV Sessions Received Great Attention at the Second Global Entrepreneurship Summit TOBB sessions organized with the contributions of TEPAV at the second Global Entrepreneurship Summit in Istanbul, first of which was held in Washington, received great attention.
05/12/2011- 1836
ISTANBUL – At the 2nd Global Entrepreneurship Summit held at the Istanbul Congress Center on 3-6 December 2011, the sessions organized by TOBB brought together important names. The sessions that were contributed by TEPAV received great attention b
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Entrepreneurship , Turkish - American Relations, GEP-TR,
