Turkey day and night: music, arts, books, gastronomy, movies. An enjoyable account of social and everyday life and culture of Turkey, from music and arts festivals to gastronomy, archaeology and books.
2021 Turkish export figures indicate that the share of high technology products in exports has dropped from 4 percent to 3 percent. We export more kilograms of goods but we earn less in dollars because the goods we export are not high value added products. Many people consider digital transformation as the remedy: They plan
The Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV) is a non-profit cultural institution that began its activity precisely 50 years ago, in 1972. During his student years in Germany, Nejat Eczacıbaşı had attended city festivals such as the Salzburg Festival. He returned to Turkey with the dream of a similar festival for Istanbul and took
Already struggling with energy cuts and soaring prices, winter has come with snow storm and freezing conditions for Turkish public. Much of Turkey was placed under a snow storm alert by forecasters amid chaos on the roads as blizzards brought meters of snow, cars were stuck on roads, temperatures fell to 4 to 6C below
Suicide of a student, murder of a women, assault to an immigrant. Turkey read these news one after another on January 11. Medical student Enes Kara committed suicide in a dormitory in Elazig, where his family was forced him to stay. In the video and letter that Kara left behind, we saw the pressures he
One of my friends from business circles shared an interesting analysis with us yesterday. The KONDA research company complied the data they have collected in the last ten years while doing their public surveys and shared it with their subscribers. It shed a light to the transformation that Turkey has gone through in the last
University rankings originated in the United States, which has over 4000 “universities”. In the US, there is neither a central authority for higher education nor central placement: Universities handle their own admissions. University education is expensive and consumers need to assess the quality of the service. Therefore, there is a great need for university rankings.
The Covid 19 Omicron wave shakes the world, especially Europe. Although Christmas and New Year celebrations in Europe are one of the most important events for both individuals and businesses, many countries have taken strict measures. On Friday, the head of the World Health Organization, who has been diligent in respecting member states’ sovereign rights
American multinational consumer goods corporation Procter and Gamble’s shampoo brand Pantene is subjected to boycott calls of women in Turkey due to their sponsorship of an award given to superstar Ibrahim Tatlıses who is known for his violent behaviour towards women. “Boycott Pantene” many women’s rights activists wrote on social media accounts on December 5,
For the last 30 years, I have been a professor at Boğazici University, one of the top universities in Turkey. Every year, I give letters of recommendation to good students applying for graduate study abroad. This year, I received more requests than usual and shared this fact on Twitter. My tweet went viral and I