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, has developed new traits that we all need to understand. No need to ask why, simply we consume media 7/24.An experienced
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 that, those who are appointed to the Bank Council of the Central Bank could keep their teaching posts in the universities,
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 of the United States.Antagonism that Trump seemed to trigger across large sections of American society didn’t seem to affect the support
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 from a Bosporus mansion called “Pelican”, mainly for public opinion manipulation. It turned out that the #NationalAccountsHere (#MilliHesaplarBurada) operation was the
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 be defeated through a united global effort. Without a vaccine, the virus will remain amongst populations anywhere and the rest of
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 started to give direction to our lives. We witnessed that factories designed to manufacture refrigerators, autos, or UAVs have started to
May 9 was Europe Day. And the European Union (EU) celebrated it in what must be the most scattered, shaken circumstances since its foundation. With the formalization of Brexit, the Union had begun 2020 with heavy blows both politically and economically. The EU had frozen all political dialogue with Turkey due to the military operations
The restrictions implemented to fight with Covid-19 and its virus are slowly being eased. There will be many changes we will need to adopt to in this new world waiting for us. I want to discuss here the return of foreign investment to Turkey, because I believe some of the economic policy decisions taken to
Although not all have been announced to the public yet, the normalization schedule for June on (and late May) the coronavirus measures are more or less clear. That is, of course, if no extraordinary developments follow.Health Minister Fahrettin Koca had said that before May 28 that the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic would still be at high
In Turkey and elsewhere we hear it often these days ‘native and national’. (*) In primary school, I remember we had ‘national products week.’ We still do. There is always a tendency to think we can resolve global issues by local means. Turkey has become a more integral part of global markets, especially since the