I speak at EFNI

I am speaking  as a panelist in the Plenary Session “Shared challenges facing Turkey and European Union in a globalized world” at European Forum for New Ideas (EFNI) in Gdansk, Poland together with Mr Zbigniew Brzeziński (Center for Strategic & International Studies, USA), Mr Ludwik Sobolewski (President, Polish Stock Exchange –GPW-, Poland), Ms Beata Stelmach (Undersecretary of State, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Poland), Mr Jürgen Thumann (President, BUSINESSEUROPE, Germany), Mr Cevdet Yilmaz (Minister of Development, Turkey) on Friday, September 28 at 9 am CET.  Click here for the details!

Waving The Flag at the Dig, the pirate one this time :)

On digging strenuous inspirations for self.

My friend Peter is the only person I know in the corporate world besides myself who is interested in archeology, especially the living part of archeology, i.e. the digs. We had a discussion at the dig he works in today. Folks around us are amazed why one would be interested in digging up dirt alongside whatever comes in it, pieces of pottery, seeds, and all that is good for carbon reading. We are amazed to their disinterest. How can humans be so interested in today or tomorrow when they have no perspective on the past? 

Equilibrium Must Prevail; Socially Responsible Business

With Intel Mexico Country Manager

There was a great session on corporate social responsibility and why should businesses care for people and the planet. In attendance was Carlos Slim Domit, world's richest man's (Helu) son alongside other three CEOs of Unilever, Manpower and Groupo Bimbo. Audience listened attentively the strategies and plans of the biggest companies of the world how they address the gaps between the ones who have and who don’t.

B20 Notes, First Day.

With President Calderon

Los Cabos is a beautiful small resort town of Mexico on the Baja peninsula. It is similar to our Antalya in Turkey, with big resorts and endless beaches. President Calderon chose this beautiful secluded part of Mexico to host the world's business and economy leaders.

The Four Billion Dilemma...

And why isn’t technology fixing things?

First day of G/B20 in Los Cabos , Mexico, there were two very interesting speeches on technology and its applications. One at a fifty thousand feet level with biomedical changes and genome and how it will change us humans; the other on real life applications to problems for other 4 billion people; power and electricity. 

Dean Kamen is president of DEKA company. He worked on stairs climbing wheelchairs; prosthetic arms; pap smear test machines prior.  In his opening line he mentioned all the CEOs who are coming to G20 represented business who operated mostly in the 60 countries in the world and had no interest to go beyond that for economic reasons and he made a call to the room for everyone to focus and help to find a way to fix two very fundamental issues that people in remaining of the world faced today. Water and electricity. He talked about two billion people on earth with no access to electricity and over one billion people with no clean water access; and the other two billion scrambling to get it.

Celebrating global women summit in the city of Athena; 
Goddess of wisdom, courage, inspiration, civilization!

I have several favorite cities that I love going back to in the world. Since I got the invitation to attend Global Summit of Women in Athens, I been so anxious. I kept on planning, just being happy that I would go to Athens finally after a while. You see, I am originally from Izmir, a beautiful Aegean town right across the sea from Athens, same parallel, same geography, same climate.And in the years I used to cover Greece from Istanbul, I always would feel like I was visiting Izmir with the palm trees, four story apartments w sun shades, our very own food but called Greek food mostly with greens, oh and if I may add, the very same loud and beautiful blonde women Izmir is known for J I did my usual round, ran to the Benaki museum to smell the ethnography of a part of my town Izmir brought to Athens at end of last century; as well as traditional clothes, artifacts, paintings, ancient and archaeological finds from Asia Minor-the land which we call Anatolia today.