Monthly Archive: April 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has a growing negative impact on economies all around the world. In an earlier study, we estimated the possible output and employment effects of the Covid-19 pandemic in Turkey. Our predictions,...
Does anybody remember the crises that the Turkish government had pushed to the forefront before the COVID-19 crisis blew up? We were kept on the edge of our seats by these issues presented by...
With the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic, we are facing a complex, versatile, case with a number of questions and answers. It may be useful to deal with the problem in two separate stages, as temporal...
Throughout the world, people are struggling to assess the consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic. From an economic perspective, most experts agree the crisis will have lasting negative effects. At the same time, the crisis...
Why does Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan has been targeting local administrations of the big cities so harshly? I can guess that you can count some reasons from not being able to control municipal revenues...
Yes, April 22 is Earth Day! We are celebrating the day’s fiftieth anniversary! So how do we celebrate this important day? It seems that in the shadow of the COVID-19 outbreak, we are celebrating...
COVID-19 has quickly become a global pandemic. The virus does not travel, but people do. And the virus is spread through contact with contagious people. Therefore, many governments resort to social distancing measures and...
Restrictions and quarantine: as people stay home, and the cities go quiet and calm, urban wildlife starts to make itself known.
As part of safety measures to fight the COVID-19 epidemic, a 48-hour weekend lockdown was implemented during April 11-12th. The second one is this weekend.
Devlet Bahçeli, leader of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) always gets what he wants. No, I’m not only saying this because of the release of Alaattin Çakıcı, an organized crime leader from jail in...