The foundation of the European Union, a unique economic and political partnership covering most of Europe with 27 member states, was laid in 1951 when six countries (Belgium, Federal Germany, France, the Netherlands, Italy, and Luxembourg) founded the European Coal and Steel Community. The European Union has gone through six enlargement periods from the past […]
ANATOMY OF THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION
On the afternoon of February 11, the Tehran Radio made a historic statement: “This is the voice of Iran, the voice of true Iran, the voice of the Islamic Revolution.” The loud voices of millions of Iranians silenced the 53-year-old dynasty and the 2,500-year-old monarchy. Their revolution became a watershed event that heralded the return […]
THE COMPLEX URBAN IDENTITY OF ANKARA
The concept of identity is defined as the distinctive character or property of a person or object. Urban identity is that the city reflects its distinctive characters and differences, in other words, a set of meanings, that depend on the history formed in a city by urban inhabitants. At this point, it is important to […]
A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW OF GENDER
You may think that being male or female is simply dependent on the gender of our bodies. But the nature of masculinity and femininity is not easily classified. In this article, I will try to explain the origins of the differences between men and women. Before we get into the details, let’s look at what […]
UNDERLYING CAUSE OF SUCCESS: STARBUCKS CORPORATION
Starbucks, an American corporation established in Seattle in 1971, and become one of the well-known companies around the world. The business strategy of Starbucks has facilitated the company to captivate scores of customers from all over the world, which reciprocally gives rise to being one of the biggest coffee house chains in more than 62 […]
URBAN IDENTITY
The word citizen was used, as someone who lives in a particular city in this assignment. (Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English) Do you think that individuals living in cities can be considered citizens? The phenomenon of the city is a dynamic concept that has a different meaning in every period of history. Cities are defined […]
STAGGERING DECLINE IN THE VALUE OF THE TURKISH LIRA
Ever can’t help thinking about why the Turkish Lira doesn’t appear to stretch as far as it is used to? The explanation is quite simple: It’s less valuable. In summing up the situation, Mahfi Eğilmez’s, a well-known Turkish economist who graduated from Ankara University, tweet is striking. He states that the Turkish lira has depreciated […]
THE COUNTRY RISK ANALYSIS
Country risk analysis is not a novel phenomenon in the finance literature, instead, it has a deep-rooted historical background. Owing to the fact that it facilitates multinational firms, seeking new opportunities abroad, to identify and assess the business environment in which they are to perform, the significance of the country risk analysis ought to be […]
A GLIMPSE INTO DEFINING THE REPUBLIC
Democracy is a bill of ethics that is based on virtue – Ignacio Ramonet The 97th anniversary of the proclamation of the Turkish Republic has motivated me to type these lines. Since I was a child, I have heard a lot about the republic. So, what do we know about it? What does […]
CONSEQUENCES OF LANGUAGE CHANGES IN THE MUSLIM WORLD
Arabic became the language of Islam when the Quran was revealed in it in the year 610. The Quran`s first audience were Arabs from Mecca and the first Muslims were mostly Arabic-speaking…Turkish itself also became a literary language with time after Arabic and Persian.
