And here’s another outbreak: the infodemic
The first, unrivaled item on the global agenda during the past six months has been the coronavirus. It still has not lost this first place. There’s nobody left in the world who doesn’t know...
Monthly Archive: May 2020
Turkey and the Covid-19 crisis after two months
Let’s evaluate the last two months of our COVID-19 experience.Turkey started with immediate partial lockdown measures which were enhanced over the course of the pandemic. Schools were closed in mid-March and the businesses were...
The Libya update: Haftar upsets his supporters
On May 20, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump about the Covid-19 pandemic and also about Libya. Macron had concerns about “worsening foreign intervention” in Libya. He was asking the...
Ankara: is it time to get what you want from Erdoğan?
We say “in Ankara” out of habit, to mean Turkish politics, but President Tayyip Erdoğan has been in Istanbul for more than two months. After chairing a meeting in Ankara about the measures against...
New rules for media; the most for the least
The question of media entertains us all, endlessly. With or without the boost of the Corona times, we go through a big time of transition. Corona seems to have stepped up the gear. Media,...
Turkey: political anatomy of a Central Bank appointment
The Presidential Decree No. 62, which was signed by Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan on May 16 and published in the Official Gazette on Sunday, May 17, consisted of a single sentence. The decree stipulated...
Is Trump running against Biden or against a virus?
Before the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the outcome of the 2020 Presidential Elections in the United States was more or less certain. Donald Trump appeared to have guaranteed a second term as President...
#NationalAccountsHere: a social media operation
At first, I thought this was merely a social media attack of the Pelican Mansion group. This think-tank/media group was founded in parallel to Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) social media efforts...
The pandemic cannot be defeated with selfishness
Of all the pronouncements made over the past weeks, the Director-General of the World Health Organization has made one important point that we can’t afford to look past. He said that COVID-19 can only...
Will science dominate now, or authoritarian rules?
Other than those who did not give their minds blindly to their beliefs, understood the importance of science and technology in our lives after the break of the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. Physicians, statisticians suddenly...