Why Turkey and Japan should collaborate more? Turkish people have positive views on Japanese people and culture as they find it both similar and exotic at the same time. According to a public survey in Turkey conducted by the Japanese Foreign Ministry in 2012, 83.2 percent of respondents said relations between Japan…

Cyprus is fastest way to obtain European passport As the elections draw near everybody is thinking a little bit more about their future than ever. Regardless of whom they support, a few main themes come up when you talk to people. Turkish people want to be able to travel to any country…

How useful was social media for the Turkish elections? I’ve written before the elections that main opposition Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) presidential candidate Muharrem İnce dominating social media would probably not translate into a victory in the June 24 elections. I stressed that the followers of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan by and…

How to win in an economic crisis There is a debate among economists these days. Some say we will have a crisis soon, others say we are already in one. However, some say we will never have an economic crisis. I will dismiss the latter and will write about what the case…

It’s all about data In his book “From 0 to 1,” Peter Thiel tells the secrets of building a fast-growing startup. He underlines that it is all about being the monopoly in any field. If you can achieve to be the only source of a service or a product, he says, you…

Silicon Valley must change its ways We technology journalists usually love everything about Silicon Valley. We love the founding fathers of IT businesses, the decorations of offices, we find new ways to motivate people very innovative, we are amazed by the personalities of the valley, and all in all we just love…

BinYaprak empowering women Throughout history, in every country, women have earned their equal place beside men through great struggles. As a man, I am ashamed women have had to fight to prove they can contribute to society as much as men. How men think women are inferior is beyond me. However, unfortunately,…

How to fix the education system?   Unfortunately every year the quality of education in our beloved country sinks even deeper. I have written before, Turkey lags far behind in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) scores compared to countries with which it wants to compete. Now that there is a university…

Can the Turkish defense industry catch up with the world? The progress in the Turkish defense industry is unrivalled. No other industry in Turkey has done so much in so little time. In the last decade, Turkish businesses and state-owned R&D centers have put amazing effort into their work and received amazing…