I previously wrote the two paragraphs below about the Makers Movement in Turkey: “The Maker movement seems to have been initiated in Turkey, too. There are a couple of ateliers, maker-spaces and hacker-spaces around the country where makers and hackers (hackers modify things to work differently) gather to ‘make something.’
I would like to call out to all the authorities and members of parliament who support the current government: Violence and non-transparency will not get you far. It can only bring all of us down into an abyss of intolerance and ignorance. Please stop, think, and benchmark
If you are a traveler or if you are here for business for a short time, you may have a feeling that Facebook and Twitter are not exactly the same as back at home
I will answer right away. Not much. As you might be aware, in the last presidential race, for the first time in Turkish political history, people and companies were allowed to donate to their favorite candidate.
Turkey's government holds the national record when it comes to claiming to have invented or built the most national technologies and devices.
“In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” -Martin Luther King Jr.
You have to look out of your box to see where the rest of the world is really at. When we are confined alone in Turkey, where we are still fighting for freedom of speech at the basic level, we lose sight of what science and technology offers to mankind on a greater scale.
The 7th of January is stained as a sad day, a black day for humanity, for eternity. I just watched the movie “Munich” by Steven Spielberg on Tuesday and on Wednesday the attack on Charlie Hebdo occurred.
Because the year 2014 ended yesterday, it is time to think about the coming year. When I think what would be the single most important thing we need in 2015