December 2011
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Dec 29th
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Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 20th
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Dec 19th
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Is Turkey an Entrepreneur Friendly Country?
Earlier in 2011, you may have caught the results of a 24-country BBC World Service poll, which surveyed more than 24,000 people to find out about the sentiments with regards to entrepreneurship and startup culture in their respective country in all five continents. The survey focused on four-questions: how hard they felt it was for people like them to start a business in their country,  whether...
Dec 19th
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The cutest, geekiest, most creative marriage proposal has got to be this. Full details here.
Dec 19th
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Dec 18th
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Dec 18th
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25 sene sonra Lise’ arkadaşlarımla buluştum. Nevizade’ye, İmroz Lokantası’na gittik. Güzel yedik, içtik. 
Dec 18th
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How to eat lahmajoun   Lahmacun nasıl yenir?  Buyrun göstereyim efendim, işte aynen böyle yenir. Afiyet olsun. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lahmacun (Turkish pronunciation: [lahmaˈdʒun]) or lahmajoun (Armenian լահմաջուն lahmaǰun or լահմաջո lahmaǰo), from Arabic: لحم بعجين‎, lahm bi’ajīn, “meat with dough”, is also known as Turkish Pizza, or Armenian Pizza.  It’s a round, thin...
Dec 17th
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Elif’le tanıştık sonunda… 
Dec 17th
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Dec 17th
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1995 Letter to Dale Carnegie
Just a reminder that all the way to mid-1990s even major organizations did not have websites.  Here’s a letter I wrote when I was in my mid-twenties to Dale Carnegie Training, to inquire about the classes they offered: According to the Wayback Machine, even Dalle Carnegie Institute  started their website in late 1998/early 1999.  It’s funny that in 1995 I had a website hosted under...
Dec 16th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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Dec 15th
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MUCK :) looks awesome!
..this awesome trailer seems to belong to a new Glee-like Turkish TV Show.  Check it out:
Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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Dec 14th
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“50 million: The number of people worldwide who have a mobile phone but that do...”
– The mobile web in numbers | Royal Pingdom (via courtenaybird)
Dec 14th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 12th
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Dec 12th
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Impressive Commitment to Recycling in Istanbul
I get bothered by the fact that some of my extended family members or some friends do not recycle in the United States.  I never understood that.  Typically they have this-or-that lame excuse for not doing it. At the office complex where our company is located, there is no recycling program (unfortunately).  So, for the last three-plus years I’ve been dragging my recyclables from the office...
Dec 12th
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“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”
– Eric Hoffer (via livejamie)
Dec 11th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Turkish Breakfast
Wake up to see this beautiful table all set and ready to go — my father’s turkish breakfast masterpiece:
Dec 10th
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Dec 10th
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Have you heard the story of the man who stops a...
Man: Do you know how I can get to Carnegie Hall?
Musician: Practice man, practice!
Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 9th
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Dec 2nd
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