Osman Şenkul In his famous book ‘The Republic’, the Greek philosopher Plato states, ‘The servants of the state (civil servants) must serve without accepting any gifts; those who do not…
Noam Chomsky (The Progressive)¹ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts…
Can Baydarol Even the title I chose for this article made me realise how ‘outdated’ I am, and it did cross my mind that the young people reading this would…
Can Baydarol We ended the week with warnings coming from the European Union front. First, the former Italian prime minister, then European Central Bank President Mario Draghi raised the question,…
Efforts to reduce global plastic pollution, which have been ongoing for years, have reached an impasse due to the United States’ opposition to production restrictions, which many countries see as…
Can Baydarol Immediately after the bilateral summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska, several European leaders, the NATO Secretary General and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss the…
Levent Gürses Unemployment in Turkey has tripled compared to the European Union (EU). The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has published the results of its Household Labour Force Survey for the…
Osman Şenkul According to the latest data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the seasonally adjusted narrowly defined unemployment rate, which was announced as 8.6% in the second quarter…
Osman Şenkul According to the Balance of Payments Statistics announced by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) on 12 August, the situation can be summarised as follows…
A group of international researchers has developed a new method to identify so-called positive tipping points, when small shifts in behaviour, technology or policy could spark sweeping, self-sustaining climate progress.…
Plato: You cannot enjoy kleptocracy without trampling on democracy
Osman Şenkul In his famous book ‘The Republic’, the Greek philosopher Plato states, ‘The servants of the state (civil servants) must serve without accepting any gifts; those who do not…
The clock is ticking
Noam Chomsky (The Progressive)¹ The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock has recently been set to ninety seconds to midnight, the closest it has come to termination. The analysts…
A comparative history of crises
Can Baydarol Even the title I chose for this article made me realise how ‘outdated’ I am, and it did cross my mind that the young people reading this would…
Is the building crumbling?
Can Baydarol We ended the week with warnings coming from the European Union front. First, the former Italian prime minister, then European Central Bank President Mario Draghi raised the question,…
Geneva talks on plastic pollution reach a deadlock
Efforts to reduce global plastic pollution, which have been ongoing for years, have reached an impasse due to the United States’ opposition to production restrictions, which many countries see as…
Scenario
Can Baydarol Immediately after the bilateral summit between Trump and Putin in Alaska, several European leaders, the NATO Secretary General and Zelensky met at the White House to discuss the…
Unemployment triples in the EU, and unemployed young people raise alarm bells
Levent Gürses Unemployment in Turkey has tripled compared to the European Union (EU). The Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) has published the results of its Household Labour Force Survey for the…
High interest rates for production means turning a blind eye to unemployment and poverty
Osman Şenkul According to the latest data released by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat), the seasonally adjusted narrowly defined unemployment rate, which was announced as 8.6% in the second quarter…
Hot money heated by high interest rates does not create production or employment
Osman Şenkul According to the Balance of Payments Statistics announced by the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT) on 12 August, the situation can be summarised as follows…
Can we force a climate breakthrough?
A group of international researchers has developed a new method to identify so-called positive tipping points, when small shifts in behaviour, technology or policy could spark sweeping, self-sustaining climate progress.…