Today's Zaman | 27 February, 2012 | Mehmet Öğütçü | Sitting in a street café in Sultanahmet, the heart of historic Istanbul, it is possible to sense the vibrations of business dynamism in this bustling city -- an energy that can now be felt all over modern Turkey. For...
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...
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...
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...
www.abvizyonu.com | 23 Eylül 2009 Mehmet ÖĞÜTÇÜ – LONDRA Yeniden artmaya başlayan petrol fiyatları, üretici ülkelerin kaynak milliyetçiliği damarlarının kabarması, enerji üretim bölgelerindeki jeopolitik riskler, tüketici ülkelerin ikmal güvenligi kaygıları, iklim değişikliğinin tahminlerden önce gerçekleşmeye başladığı korkusu, 2030’a kadar 21 trilyon dolara varan enerji yatırım gereksinimi, boru hatları...
Kazinform| 18 August 2009 | MEHMET ÖĞÜTÇÜ | LONDON - When I first ventured into Central Asia as a Turkish diplomat back in 1989, it was still viewed as a terra incognito, yet to be declared independent -- people could hardly pronounce the full names of these...