Are we going forward or backward? Writing a column on Turkish technology events and news once a week is clearly not enough. The subjects just pile up until yesterday. Turkey is going through a very active phase in terms…

A little bit of simplicity is all we want One of the greatest Turkish novels of all time is undoubtedly “The Time Regulation Institute.” It is one of the best ironic criticisms of the bureaucratization process. It is about…

God vs. technology In Turkey the belief that everything that happens to a person is God’s will is very important. Other countries have the same kind of belief, but the Turkish version might be the strongest. When something bad…

The week of summits The highlights of this week are no doubt the Webrazzi Summit and the Retail Days.class="cf"> Webrazzi, founded by Arda Kutsal, is the leading source for any technology-related business news in Turkey. The Webrazzi Summit was held…

The ‘wait and see’ approach Whenever I speak about an investment in Turkey with a foreign company CEO, this is the sentence that I hear the most: “We will wait and see for now.” Governments have changed and Turkish…

A strategy? What is that? Authorities always name Turkey as a country with great potential. It does have great potential. However it cannot realize it. This is what happens when you have millions of talented youngsters but don’t have…

Responses There have been many responses to the two articles that I have written lately; namely, “Fighting and cooperating” and “Will technology save our education system?”class="cf"> “In Fighting and cooperating,” I wrote about the issues of discussion in between Mehmet…

Fighting and cooperating I have written about the issues between Mehmet Emin Karamehmet and TeliaSonera in this column before. The power struggle over control of Turkcell creates a new crisis at every board meeting. In public the two partners…

Will technology save our education system? There are different realities when it comes to education in Turkey. First of all, the money spent on education is rising fast. The Education Ministry is enjoying budgets that have never been seen…

Is Turkey ready for cyber war? ERSU ABLAK On Nov. 8, the Turkish Ministry of Finance’s website www.maliye.gov.tr was hacked by the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) . A song praising Abdullah Öcalan, the leader of the terrorist group, was playing…