An inadequate educated population and personality issues

Although I believe that education is one of Turkia's biggest problems, being in the well-educated segment of this, I believe that those who don’t increase their horizon and knowledge development, don’t conform to the current era, are judgmental and narrow minded and also contribute to and are equally part of the problem. I received many comments to my previous written article which are some recent typical examples of this… read more...

Our country’s English name should be “Turkia”

It has hosted numerous civilizations, formed of many deep historical layers, consisting of such a rich cultural country, in the most widely used foreign language in the world, our country name actually means “Turkey" (as in the animal) which I find unacceptable. As previously suggested by Ege Cansen, as many countries have ended their name with the suffix “ia”, it is more appropriate to call our country “Turkia” formed by also adding the “ia” suffix. read more...

I am the first passenger of the new airport!

As a result of fate, I was the first passenger to board the first flight departing from the new Istanbul Airport even though I made no effort to achieve this. Here is the story of my “by chance” historical feat…   read more...