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…

ISIL vs Turkish parties in social media In the coming years, there will probably be a Harvard Business Review article entitled: “A Case study: ISIL [Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant] on the Iraqi front, a best…

Samsun, Google and Prophetic Medicine Sometimes the three most unrelated words can tell you a lot about a country when they are found on the news on the same day. Samsun is a city of 605,000 people. It…

486… This number says a lot about Turkey 486 is not the title of a new TV series. It is not the number of a plane that goes to your favorite destination. It is the number of ICT companies…

Will agriculture save high tech companies? The tables have turned and agriculture, once seen as a low-pay, high-hassle industry compared to technology production, has become the possible savior of many high tech firms, especially in Japan. There are…

Please let Mr. Ciliv relax Turkcell is known as the crown jewel of the Turkish ICT industry. It is very profitable and it disseminates technology to every corner of the country far better than its rivals. Financially speaking, Turkcell…