Business in Turkey

How do you like reading your daily newspaper? Are you a classical reader who prefers having the feel of the actual paper and turning its pages despite newspaper ink on your hands? Or have you already become a digital reader with an online subscription?I am experiencing a big dilemma these …

It was my second year in college. I took a first-year international relations course for which I had to read Orientalism by Edward Said. This was my first official encounter by a well-defined concept of ‘the other.’ Said defined ‘the other’ as lower, less important, different or even strange. The …

2010… Another year passed by… the first decade of the millennium is over. How will you remember 2010? What happened in these 365 days that made the year significant? Natural disasters, information leaks, technological breakthroughs… 2010 was the year of natural disasters. Different parts of the world were shaken by …

Most of us see things that need to change but we don’t know how to go about it. As we walk down the Istiklal Avenue, we see kids selling tissues to survive in the midst of dangerous streets.  Some of us stop and give them a few coins, others are …

The information age makes all kinds of information and images available. Because we receive a lot of irrelevent data besides useful and interesting ones, we take only a few seconds to screen and label them as ‘worth reading or watching’ or ‘junk’. The job of advertisers is tough because they …

Last week I went to a public lecture by Tamar Almor at Sotheby’s Singapore. It was a good lecture to hear about trends in the art business. If you’re simply an art enthusiast, art investor or creative business professional interested in art, you will enjoy to see new perspectives in …

I used to love futuristic movies as a kid. In 1990s Hollywood made us imagine that the future world would be a utopia where human factor would be minimised and electronic machines would control the cities, maintain security and restore information. Boys of my age were mesmerized by flying cars …

One of the rarest joys of living abroad is to visit home. In my case, home is Istanbul. Most of my friends and colleagues prefer vacationing in the exotic spots of the Mediterranean or travel thousands of miles just to relax and get into the mood to vacation. In contrast, …

Most of us come up with many unusual and creative ideas during the day but have hard time transforming them into concrete projects or include them in processes.  Some of us take notes and make an effort to make use of these new ideas, others easily forget them within the …

Turkey comes to mind as a beautiful destination for vacationing by the Mediterranean coast, indulging with delicious food and venturing the cultural sites by the Bosphorus and Sultanahmet in Istanbul or Ephesus in the West. Not many people would think of Turkey as the place to conduct global business meetings, …