Chalk vs. Tablet: Can FATIH Project Revolutionize the Turkish Education System?
In many ways, and by any standard, Turkey is a vibrant country. Those who follow events in Turkey closely would definitely agree, as they must nowadays have difficulty with following the dizzying pace of events and making sense out of them. To be more concrete and specific, it would be appropriate to mention a few [...]
Egypt: Facing the Challenge of Democracy
The elections in Egypt are a great deal since the aim of the Tahrir Revolution was and still is ‘democracy’. Considering the on-going experiences of my country, Turkey, I am very well aware that the consolidation of democracy is not something that might come over in one election. It will take years before Egypt is [...]
Drug Trafficking and Countermeasures in Turkey: A General Assessment
Drug trafficking has been on the global agenda for more than a century.1 In simplest terms, it is a global illicit trade involving the cultivation, manufacture, distribution, and sale of substances which are subject to drug prohibition laws.2 Globally, United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that between 149 and 272 million people, [...]
Turkish Women’s Movement
It is known that cultures have deep impact on societies and ‘directs’ its people. Cultures consist of long-term practices, traditions, customs, proverbs and more. Moreover, cultures usually shape the way people live. The culture in Turkey has limited the Turkish Women’s Movement, but has not destroyed it. However, cultures can be changed very slowly. For [...]
Women in Turkey: Are They Born to Suffer?
I have never been exposed to domestic violence. Even though I still clearly remember how my dearest brother employed innovative and semi-sadistic tactics to provoke me for another round of a brotherly scuffle, or how my stubborn babysitter threatened me to make me finish a mountain of rice on my plate, I cannot identify my [...]
Is there no space for the disabled?
Let me start by answering the question above. There is of course enough space for the disabled, for everyone actually. All that is needed looking around more carefully: the disabled are an ‘invisible’ sub-culture. They are ‘invisible’ because they are not wanted to be seen or remembered often. However, they do exist in every society [...]
Wake up EU, it’s 2011!
So, here it is. The third term with the AKP, the political party that has been making the reforms for the accession negotiations with the EU, the party which the hard-core secular Turks are scared of, the party that made Turkey much more confident in its foreign policy by expanding its range. This more independent [...]
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