Gaming is serious business If you ask me, one of the reasons why we live is to play games. I don’t mean just digital games but sports, interactions between peers verbal games, etc. To play games makes you happy, fills…

Is the end of the digital agencies near? The advertising industry is one of the most established industries in the world. There are many multinational companies and many world dominators, like WPP and Omnicom along with thousands of…

How to prevent rigging the elections I have been a volunteer for the Oy ve Ötesi (Vote and Beyond) Platform for the last three elections. I will be at the ballot box for the fourth time this Sunday. As…

17,880 votes I wrote about the election security last week. I did my duty as a volunteer for Oy ve Otesi (Vote and Beyond), took a signed copy of the official result of my ballot box and handed it…

The first Grand Prix will hopefully not be the last Turkey is not a country well known for its creativity. If I ask readers of this newspaper to name three aspects of Turkey, most probably anything related to…

Ziya Boyacıgiller On June 20, 2014, Ziya Boyacıgiller passed away. I wanted to write about him, as he was not just an entrepreneur but a role model to many people. I believe that we Turkish people tend not…

It is good to be a startup these days! Summer brought a new wave of investment for startups all over the world. Maybe it is really true that good weather makes people more positive and ready to take…

The gap between 10th and 45th Turkey has always had very ambitious governments. All of the governments that I can remember had very amazing projects and future plans for Turkey. It seems that the voters of this fine country…

What happened this year in the startup arena? After I wrote about entrepreneurship recently, I had the opportunity to be able to speak to Ayşe İnal about the topic. Inal is the general secretary of Galata Business Angels (GBA), the…

Big data or SMS marketing? Recently in Turkey electronic means of marketing have been regulated harshly. However, the demand for sending texts by companies is not broken. One by one, companies are breaking the legislation or finding loop…