Qatar and Turkey, new business allies
Last week I wasn’t able to write an article as I was attending the Turkish Festival in Doha. Qatar has been on my radar ever since Pozitron (now a part of Monitise) opened…
Laughing for all the wrong reasons
Yesterday was April 23, National Sovereignty and Children’s Day.Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Cabinet members delegated their seats to children as part of the national Children’s Day tradition, letting young…
Where does Turkey belong, digitally?
It is very difficult to decide where Turkey belongs to in any given area. There are as many maps that put Turkey in the Asia section as maps that place Turkey in Europe. The…
Minding my business
I frequently write about the lack of transparency in decisions made by major Turkish technology companies, such as the Fatih project and national warship tenders, as well as the management of telecommunication firms. In almost every…
The government had enough time to prevent Soma disaster
Below is my column from May 2010, when a mining accident in Zonguldak left 30 workers dead. Unfortunately, in four years nothing has changed. We are still losing lives for…
We have a major HR problem
I started journalism around 12 years ago. Ever since, the most famous quotation I have heard from Turkish political leaders is “our young population gives us strength” or “Turkey’s most important resource is…
Wearable technologies and the future
One of the hottest topics of the year is wearable technologies. Everybody was talking about cloud computing in the previous years, now it is all about machine to machine (M2M) communication and wearable technologies.…
Wearable technologies and the future
One of the hottest topics of the year is wearable technologies. Everybody was talking about cloud computing in the previous years, now it is all about machine to machine (M2M) communication and wearable technologies.…
Long live slacktivism
I wrote before that we cannot educate most of our youth as well as we should. It creates all sorts of problems. We do not have enough engineers and software project managers, but we have plenty…
