I’m starting a new series of articles. I’ll be writing about individuals who have achieved great success worldwide by reflecting their character in sports and who I follow as role models. In each article, we’ll learn important lessons from these role models. In this first article, I’ll be featuring Semih
In this article, I won’t be writing the story of Galatasaray, which recently won the Turkish Soccer Super League championship. You can read about this story from various perspectives in the media and on social media. I’ll be writing this article so that Galatasaray and Fenerbahçe, the two Istanbul teams
I recently came across an important masterclass supported by the BMW Foundation. After reading that it was a training “on how we can achieve balance and resolve tension and conflict in a polarized world,” I decided to attend. I will be sharing some of the information and experiences I gained
Last Saturday, I watched the documentary “Singing in Dark Times,” which tells the story of the Hatay Academy Orchestra, which continued to perform in Antakya immediately after the earthquake, which devastated the city on 6 February 2023, by one of the largest earthquakes in the history of the Republic of
Last Sunday, I attended a talk by world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, who came to Istanbul at the invitation of Roots & Shoots Turkey, a group I’ve been a member of since its inception and participated in several events with children and young people. In this article, I will introduce you
I haven’t written about solar energy in a long time. I recently came across two excellent articles in PV Magazine. I was delighted to read in these articles that everything I’ve been preaching about solar energy for the past 13 years is starting to come true in 2023 and 2024.
The holiday, with all its intensity, has come to an end. Those who spent the holiday in Istanbul, or those who, like me, made a strategic mistake and ended up on Büyükada during the holiday, experienced the city’s intense human density, especially at transportation hubs. What I observed on the
In my last article, I wrote about how Ali Koç and others like him harm themselves, their families, Fenerbahçe, and Turkey, respectively. This article, which received significant support, was met with considerable fanaticism, and as expected, some fanatics were not indifferent. In this article, I will write about fanaticism, which
The problems in Turkish football, a country plagued by constant problems, have reached a peak this year. Last night, Turkish football was completely disgraced after Ali Koç, a shareholder in Koç Holding, Turkey’s largest company, and Fenerbahçe’s chairman, and his board, who have emerged as the instigators and fuelers of
