A TRAVELER TOWARDS WORLD CITIZENSHIP
What have we learnt from COVID-19? If the first lesson is that national borders are “meaningless” in the face of global issues, the second lesson we’ll learn – by experience – is (unfortunately) the “climate crisis.” Now, we see that injustice in income distribution and inequality is causing the huge gap between the rich and the ...
Emmanuel Faber. Take note of this name. He’s one of those bold business personality who would be on the front pages if someone ever decided to write a book about visionary CEOs. In 2014, he was appointed head of Danone (a major international food company). Just like Paul Polman (who got behind the Unilever’s wheel in ...
We will witness that “ethics”—which goes back thousands of years—will become a hot topic in the coming days! Debates over vaccines that make you immune to Covid-19 makes you think like this. When we get to the bottom of the issue, we face the fact that things aren’t just about coronavirus. First, let’s take a short ...
The world’s superpower… The president of this superpower has perplexed the world with his character. He feeds off of ego, ambition, and arrogance. Only in a movie would president’s Twitter account be “suspended”. Well, not anymore… The president holds his grip over power — in the birthplace of freedom of press and expression. He has not “turned ...
The topic of this year’s online Betûl Mardin Seminar at Bilgi University was “Social Reconciliation and Public Relations”. Below is the speech I delivered at the online event on December 15, 2020. Perceptions are real, but what about facts? I’m picking up where I left off last year. Where and how do we reconcile? First, we need reconciliation on ...
While it strikes me as funny that my generation spun wheels of life, we were the ones who lived at the heart of action. We owned black and white TV that had just one channel. At first, it only programmed just a couple evenings a week. Eventually you could watch every night, but only until midnight. ...
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