Sinan Yüce

Well, there has been a lot of discussion about Erdoğan's call of Öcalan as a "mister". And Ibrahim wrote a post about the issue after showing funny comics from Bizimcity. Well, I have a few words to say about the issue and you can see it in the comments section.

Well, the post here might not seem to have anything related to your career. The post discusses about William McAdoo who was -according to the post- one of the unknown financial superhero. He was the man who saved the face of the US dollar around the years of first world war and with the help of his work, US eventually turned to be the global financial leader.

I strongly recommend you to read through that article. Because at the end, you will get the most valuable career advise you will ever hear. In every call in which we talk about the career, my father always gives the same advise but I did not take it so seriously up to now. Perhaps, I should start to do so.

Well, one of the most compelling ideas I got when I departed from the internship of JPMorgan was getting more information about Islamic Finance –no, they do not offer anything about Islamic Finance here. Well, here in Turkey, the issue is somewhat sensitive due to the indigestion of secularism, but it is often taken as another business opportunity in the rest of the world. I read a lot of articles from different magazines (e.g. the Economist, BusinessWeek) and it is a fact that world’s biggest banking institutions are looking for those candidates who have the knowledge of Islamic Finance.

The oil boom that led to savings of excess money in the Islamic countries also brought urges to use this money in different financial instruments. Due to the laws of Islam, not all of the instruments proposed in the markets are allowed for the Muslim people. Therefore, one should also obey to the rules of Shariah –Koranic law- in terms of his investments.

Well, in this article, BusinessWeek draws attention to another interesting fact about Islamic Finance. According to the article, a lot of colleges including Harvard consider adding courses and programs for those who are seeking more about Islamic Finance. Well, according to the article, the area is one of those very special cases where demand exceeds supply.

While the world is evolving, what happens in our own country? Well, nothing interesting. I can not imagine any college that offers such a course without starting the discussion of secularism. Well, what a pity for us! By the way, it is worth mentioning the fact that even the parties who are supposed to be the representer of Islam started to acknowledge the fact that “money has one color, it is only green and is only for the dollar”. Is that so?

I don’t think so.

I know that there has been a lot of work in this area in Turkey. Especially the special type of banks which were previously called as ‘Finans’, -e. g. Faisal Finans, Anadolu Finans,- offered such services. Their model got such acclaim that they gave seminars in the Western Europe –remember, one of the candidates of recent central bank’s top position was Adnan Büyükdeniz who was one of the founders of such institutions-. But recent laws in banking systems started to limit the capabilities of these institutions. But the authorities should realize that unless our banking system does offer financial services in depth for Islamic finance, we will witness more examples of Yimpaş, Jetpa, etc. in which the people who are seeking to invest their savings according to the Islamic laws were exploited and caused a lot of complaints in the public.

Well, I am taking notes about the issue. When I have more time in the future, I will be looking issue more closely and the opportunities that Turkey can have.

Well, here, I found a good article about those tiresome interviews. Despite they are just for internship, it is a good demonstration of what someone can face. Well, I do not think anyone here in Bilkent had that kind of rash experiences, but it is still worth reading.
By the way Business week B-schools feed is a great source of information for those of you who want to apply for business school, namely MBA. Right after talking about advantages of RSS, it is time to give some good source of feeds, is not it?

Well, ever since I knew RSS, it became one of the most useful tools for me. The practical usage of RSS is so huge and so easy that now, instead of checking the websites I am interested in, I usually subscribe to RSS feeds of those web site and start reading the articles of those websites from my favorite RSS Reader (well, I have to mentioned that I first came across to RSS feeds when I first installed IE7, so I suggest you to use it because it does not let you to leave your favorite browser while you are notified with new updates on your RSS subscriptions).

Well, It has been almost 10 months for me to use RSS feeds so heavily but I realize that there are a lot of people around me that say "RSS, hmm, I'm sorry, what was it for?". And to tell the truth, it is not something that you can explain in a few minutes.

But, I came across this beautiful video about RSS, that will be very great start for you to understand what is RSS. For those of you who haven't met RSS yet, go and check it.

Free speech to me!

Well, I have discussed the ban of YouTube in Turkey here. And I recommended you to check Information Week’s Weblog for further comments. Well, IW journal Mitch, happened to answered my comments and he said that:

“Sorry, Turk(another poster on the issue) and Sinan, but you're falling into the logical argument that censors everywhere use today. Free speech includes the right to insult other people. Period. Free speech with regulations isn't free, it's regulated speech.”

Of course, I intended to reply it with what I think of free speech. I don’t know how but the posts that I send, happen to be not seen on the page. Well, perhaps they blocked my IP addresses.

Well, darling... Free speech when it comes to me… So you shut up!

Note: My thoughts about free speech is as the following. Well, I figured out to copy it first when third time I tried to send it.

Mitch,

I strongly recommend you to recheck the sources of your knowledge about the freedom of speech. I strongly agree that everyone can have any idea about anything and he has the rights to express it by using any medium. But when it comes to the publicity, there are some bindings that he or she should care. And these are not for the censorship but for preserving the existence and protection of both the speecher and the community (s)he addresses to.

If you look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech, almost every part of the world, the speeches that ignite war propaganda, violence and HATE SPEECH are condemned and prohibition of them does not considered as violation of freedom of speech.

Well, the InformationWeek journalist, Mitch Wagner, posted an article to Information's Week' Digital Life Weblog, about recent ban on access to Youtube in Turkey. Well, like in all cases, the western-born journalist gets it as an assault on a "freedom of a speech" -though, this case aside, Turkish authorities often are not at good at dealing with freedom of the speech-.
I tried to give my opinions on the issue there, but I really encourage you to look at and give your thoughts about it.

Here, in my Turkish blog site, I posted a small passage about the relationship and the marriage. Well, I hope, you have a minute to look at it.

Well,
The holder of the title, Barcelona, had an early finish in Champions League this year. Well, here, in İbahim's blog, I tried to convince others that Barcelona had a very little opportunity in this time and they would need a miracle to pass this round. Well, after the match, I tried to give a detailed analysis of the game, which is you can also see in the comments. By the way, it is Turkish. Believe me, I would write in English but talking football in English does not give same taste as it gives in Turkish.
Enjoy your read...

The topic might seem a little bit awkward but that is what happened when last training mission of Swiss soldiers, they accidentally crossed the border of Liechtenstein. Since the country is so small, the next time they should double check where they step in.