İSMET BERKAN

A close look at energy policies İSMET BERKAN

A close look at energy policies

Unfortunately, the most recent figures I could find on the International Energy Agency (IEA) website belong to 2008 and according to them, Turkey in that year consumed energy that corresponds to a total of 99 million tons of oil.

November 06 2014
Why no investments are made for solar energy İSMET BERKAN

Why no investments are made for solar energy

As of the end of 2012, Turkey had the capacity for 57,059-megawatt electricity production. Out of this, 35,027 were from thermic power plants, 19,609 from hydroelectric power plants, 162.2 from geothermal resources and 2,260 from wind turbines.

November 04 2014
The biggest portion of our stock of problems İSMET BERKAN

The biggest portion of our stock of problems

Turkey is a country that prefers to postpone issues rather than solve them. Not that any of our problems have truly been solved, but those we sweep under the rug and tend to forget are many times worse than the ones we’ve solved.

October 29 2014
Is there consensus on the peace process ‘road map’ or not İSMET BERKAN

Is there consensus on the peace process ‘road map’ or not?

Sırrı Süreyya Önder from the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) phoned me to explain in his own terms the course of the process since Sept. 3.

October 23 2014
Davutoğlu’s calendar of the past two months İSMET BERKAN

Davutoğlu’s calendar of the past two months

I had an opportunity to have a long conversation with Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu on Oct. 18 on his return from Amasya.

October 21 2014
Does PM Davutoğlu remember what he told al-Assad in 2011 İSMET BERKAN

Does PM Davutoğlu remember what he told al-Assad in 2011?

I'm sure he remembers. It lasted hours, that final meeting of PM Ahmet Davutoğlu with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, when Davutoğlu was still the foreign minister

October 16 2014
When does the school lose our children İSMET BERKAN

When does the school lose our children?

There have been serious advances in the schooling of the current population in elementary and secondary schools in the past years.

October 03 2014
When adolescent politics replaces mature politics İSMET BERKAN

When adolescent politics replaces mature politics

The world is talking about what the armed group calling itself the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has done in the Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria, right across our border.

September 23 2014
Wealth of the rich always the talk of the poor İSMET BERKAN

Wealth of the rich always the talk of the poor

According to a survey by the Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK), the average income of the top 10 percent of our population that received the highest share of income in 2012 was 78,569 Turkish Liras.

September 12 2014