www.forumistanbul.com | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | Relations between Turkey and Iran will likely come under the limelight soon as the speculations intensify about an imminent US attack against Iran and possible role Turkey could be forced to play in it. The two countries are so close to one another in...
Today’s Zaman | 08 July 08, 2011 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ - LONDON - It is now a business-as-usual matter to see Turkey's extremely mobile and risk-prone entrepreneurs in the most unlikely places all over the world. I would not be surprised if they have already started knocking on...
Energy Intelligence | International Oil Daily | Vol.10, No: 105, | Tuesday, May 31, 2011 The 86-nation International Energy Forum (IEF), established 20 years ago in Riyadh to foster producer-consumer dialogue, is set this week to choose a new secretary-general. As the clock winds down to the vote...
asymmetricthreat.net | March 1, 2011 DEALING WITH TODAY’S ASYMMETRIC THREAT Cyber Threats to National Security S Y M P O S I U M F I V E Keeping the Nation’s Industrial Base Safe From Cyber Threats This document is intended only as a summary of the personal remarks made by...
Today's Zaman | 11 February, 2011 | By Mehmet Öğütçü* and Jonathan Clarke | By and large, ordinary people in the Middle East are fed up with corruption, nepotism, great disparities of wealth and suppression of opposition in every day life across the region. This state of affairs poses...
www.turkishpolicy.com | 09, July, 2010 Mehmet Öğütçü In today’s world, the globalization of international relations, the internationalization of ational policy areas and the growing awareness that global problems require global solutions signify new important functions for diplomacy. Yet, the traditional actors of international affairs are not suf with the...
FINANCIAL TIMES | 11 June, 2010 by Delphine Strauss | Can Turkey live up to its own rhetoric of being an energy hub? According to Joschka Fischer, the former German foreign minister now advising the Nabucco consortium, it all hinges on the pipeline planned to bring Caspian...
Insight Turkey Vol. 12 | No. 3 | 2010 | pp. 63-88 MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ* Abstract: Tectonic changes are not occurring only in the world financial system, trading and investment, geopolitics, and technology; a fundamental transformation is also underway in the global energy system. Myriad trends indicate that the current system...
Today's Zaman | 08 February, 2010 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ * | Most people do not engage in the mental luxury of speculating upon what the world and their country would be like if history had gone a little differently, i.e., if history had taken a course different...
Today's Zaman | 10 January, 2010 Mehmet Öğütçü | LONDON - The dividing lines are getting ever sharper in today’s Turkey in almost every part of life, be it politics, business, sports or culture.Shared values, a common vision and a sense of societal coherence are increasingly being blurred and...