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How did Bush Win?

Ali Gunertem
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Contrary to expectations, the 2004 Presidential elections ended without any complications, as the Democratic candidate John Kerry called President Bush to concede the elections. The chaos of 2000 elections did not repeat.

December 15, 2004
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Written by Ali Gunertem

It's Election Time!

Ali Gunertem
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Only one and a half months are left until the Presidential elections. Pre-election preparations and campaigns are going full stream. The focus of discussions is changing fast, and right now military records and army services of the candidates are the hot topics.

November 15, 2004
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Written by Ali Gunertem

Bush or Kerry?

Ali Gunertem
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Iraq’s current status implies that the New World Order, which started on September 11, 2001, has an unknown future. The U.S. is trying to prove to the civilized the new world order of its own by using military power.

June 15, 2004
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Written by Ali Gunertem

Being An Enterprenuer and A Manager

Cemil Ozyurt
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I have always been curious about the tricks that managers of successful comp an ies have up their sleeves. And I am interested in the ways that the CEOs of the Fortune 500 comporations carry out their daily lives.

October 15, 2007
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

"Turkish Bob's" Love Of Half a Century

Ali Cinar - Connecticut
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When American protest singer Bob Dylan, in his autobiography “Chronicles” mentioned his ancestors’ origins as Turkey, it had major repercussions in Turkey, and we experienced the happiness of finding somebody else with ties to Turkey.

April 15, 2005
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Get rid of the Psychological Quotas

Mustafa Aykaç-Boston
Fahri Karakaya, PhD is a teaching fellow at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is specialized in market entry and entry barriers. “Entry Barriers and Market Entry Decision: A Guide for Executives” is the first of his three books. He is currently expanding his studies to global markets and toward the field of electronic trade.

November 15, 2004
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Written by Mustafa Aykac

Third Dutchman in the NATO

Yasin Yağcı – The Netherlands
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Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, the new Secretary of General of the NATO has officially taken office. The NATO was established during the Cold War era but is increasingly being questioned for its current raison d’etre. Last September, Mr. Schaffer was appointed to replace George Robertson, who retired from the NATO, while he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Netherlands. He is the third Dutch Secretary General in the history of NATO.

April 15, 2004
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Written by Yasin Yagci

Presidential Elections and Turkey

Ali Gunertem
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2003 was a quite busy year. As we entered 2004, most readers who are interested in the US-Turkey relations as much as I am had great expectations. In 2003, Iraq will continue to be the most important subject in foreign policies of Turkey and the US.

March 14, 2004
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Written by Ali Gunertem

Country of Legends

According to legend, the Sultan of the Kubadabad Dynasty in Anatolia was told by a fortune-teller that the princess he loved would die on her 18th birthday due to a snake bite. The Sultan, intending to protect the girl from snakes, had a tower built in the middle of the Bosporus Strait in Istanbul and safeguarded her there.

February 15, 2008
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

Shopping Craze!

Cemil Ozyurt
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Thanksgiving Day is one of the most important celebrations in the USA. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the last Thursday in November, and was first celebrated in 1621. The Plymouth Colony, which was made up of some of the first settlers of the present day USA, celebrated the bounty of their harvest following a hard winter, and later turned this into an occasion to thank God for all that He gave them.

December 15, 2007
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

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Just Another Magazine

Cemil Ozyurt
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According to a study done by “Mr. Magazine,” Prof. Samir Hüsni, chair of the Journalism Department at the University of Mississippi, 60% of all new, independent magazines in the USA endeavoring to bring something new to their readers end up folding within their first year in print.

June 15, 2007
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

Can I Sell You Some Information?

Cemil Ozyurt
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Do you know how the oft-repeated phrase `we live in the information age` is transformed by the business world into money? Let's take a look at how the information being disseminated from the four corners of the globe is collected into a single integrated package before being then distributed.

March 15, 2007
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

Looking for Marketers, Fast?

Cemil Ozyurt
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The best apricots of the world grow in Turkey. We also have one of the world’s richest cuisines. The best coasts in the world, places that are revered as holy by the three main monotheistic religions, the best view of a strait, hand woven regional carpets, each more valuable than the next, and the tastiest baklavas are all to be found in Turkey.

January 15, 2007
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

Why There Are No Turkish Companies in the New York Times?

Cemil Ozyurt
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Every morning when I’m reading the business pages of the New York Times, my eyes long for a few things to read about a Turkish company. When I’m scanning the news about countries like China, India, Malaysia and Singapore, as well as European countries, I feel sorry that I cannot often see success stories about Turkish companies on these pages.

October 15, 2006
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Written by Cemil Ozyurt

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