To date academic attention in social sciences remains inadequate with regard to research and analysis of public opinion in Turkey. Most of the existing research has assessed the public opinion during political election periods. Therefore it is of great interest to find out what the public thinks about current issues in the country and how to interpret the results to be able to reveal whether they may have any reflections on social political and cultural structure of the country. The current study ...

This article aims at evaluating the historical determinants and implications of Turkey's natural gas import dependency. We implement principle component analysis (PCA) methodology to construct a natural gas import vulnerability index (NGIVI) for the period between 1986 and 2014 using five factors: (1) the share of natural gas in primary energy consumption (2) the share of natural gas in primary energy imports (3) the non-diversification of natural gas import sources (4) the share of LNG in total ...

This article focuses on the mining activities of Turkish Coal Enterprises (TKI) the major lignite supplier in Turkey. First we analyzed the lignite production and overburden removal activities of TKI from a historical perspective and then employed the Principle Component Analysis to build a mining efficiency index of TKI and investigated its historical development since the establishment of the company. We found that labor productivity and operational structure have been the most important factors ...

This paper reports on an empirical study conducted within the SME sector in the city of Istanbul Turkey. The findings from this study enabled the creation of a behavioural and operational typology of competitive intelligence practice one developed from the work of S. Wright D.W. Pickton and J. Callow (2002. Competitive intelligence in UK firms: A typology. Marketing Intelligence & Planning 20 349-360). Using responses to questions which indicated a type of behaviour or operational stance towards ...

It would be unfair underestimating the accumulated knowledge and efforts which target to assess public opinion on certain issues and put forward effective plans. However many of the research aiming to analyze public opinion handle the issue mostly during political election periods and they do not have much idea about the different actors and factors that would be effective in the formation of public opinion. There is only a few research done in Turkey that measures public opinion regularly. Therefore ...

Soft power has been an influential concept in the field of international relations since it was developed by Joseph Jr. Nye in the 1990s. Even though the term was coined in order to assess American power in terms of its soft power resources such as values culture and policies it has been extensively used by politicians and scholars in different countries. The concept has also come into prominence in Turkey during the JDP period by highlighting a new foreign policy approach presented by Ahmet ...

Bu makale yakın zamanda petrol ve doğalgaz gibi iki önemli ham-madde etrafında gündeme gelen ve soğuk savaş dönemini anımsatan çekişmeyi konu edinmektedir. Makale uluslararası piyasalardaki fıyat artışları sonucu, petrol ve doğalgaz zengini Rusya’nın elinde bulunan dolar rezervlerinin arttığını, buna bağlı olarak Rusya’nın, Stalin dönemini hatırlatan bir yayılmacılık ve etki alanı oluşturmaya çalıştığını tartışmaktadır. Rusya ve Ukrayna arasında boy gösteren bu çatışma bahsi geçen ham ...

Electricity markets have undergone regulatory reforms since the early 1980s around the world. Technical analyses of these reforms usually pay lip service to the influence of politics over regulatory processes. Existing studies examine certain aspects of the market such as demand pricing and efficiency and they touch upon political issues only passingly when economic models cannot provide sufficient explanation This approach problematically takes politics as an ad hoc variable. This study shows ...

The Precambrian metamorphic basement of the Istanbul-Zonguldak Unit (IZU) NW Anatolia Turkey is represented by the Sunnice Group composed essentially of four different metamorphic assemblages: (1) Cele metaophiolite (2) Yellice metavolcanics (3) Demirci metamorphics and (4) Dirgine metagranite. The field relations and structural characteristics of these units were studied and representative geochemical analyses of Cele metaophiolite and related volcanics were obtained from the Sunnice Almacik and ...