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I wrote before that we cannot educate most of our youth as well as we should. It creates all sorts of problems. We do not have enough engineers and software project managers, but we have plenty of people who are good at low-level jobs. With this kind of a human resources mixture, Turkey cannot go forward as to reach its 2023 goals.

BELGRADE – The direct damage to agriculture is estimated at EUR 500 million and experts agreed Wednesday that it is necessary to re-sow the flooded fields as soon as possible and provide sufficient quantities of food for the surviving cattle.

Mutual distrust between the government and the Kurdish political groups will not yield a breakthrough in the ongoing resolution process, according to the social democrat opposition leader, who argued no one was really aware of the substance of the process.

The Croatian Mine Action Centre said the money was needed in order to clear the country of all the unexploded ordnance still left over from the war by 2019.

An annulment decision by the Council of State has revealed that a large urbanization decision about a central Istanbul neighborhood of 5,560 houses was made upon the inspection of only 14 buildings and almost no scientific examination.

Greece is hoping for a new tourism record this year, with arrivals likely to exceed 20 million, in a new sign that the country is winning back foreigners as the economy gets back on its feet.

After a poor season in 2012 – a year marked by back-to-back elections, political instability, and anti-austerity protests – the tourism industry seems finally to be getting its swagger back.

Washington June 3 dismissed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s accusations targeting CNN International correspondent Ivan Watson over his coverage on the Gezi protests. Erdoğan questioned CNN’s impartiality, labeling Watson “an agent” and blasting him for “wanting to stir up trouble in Turkey.”

Washington June 3 dismissed Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s accusations targeting CNN International correspondent Ivan Watson over his coverage on the Gezi protests. Erdoğan questioned CNN’s impartiality, labeling Watson “an agent” and blasting him for “wanting to stir up trouble in Turkey.”

The deputy chairman of Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) has urged Muslim societies to “update themselves” and “engage in self-criticism,” in a message penned to mark the 90th anniversary of the directorate’s establishment.

Orson Wells was at least partly right when he said: “Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in the Senate.” Unfortunately, we don’t yet have a better instrument for democracy than the ballot box.