Protests in Boğaziçi University: What is Really Happening?

Author Team of PRESENT

11.01.2021

1 January 2021, midnight. Turkish President appointed Melih Bulu as the rector (who is generally referred to as the “kayyum”) of Boğaziçi University. A “professor” (frankly, naming a person a “professor” who owes his rise in academia to plagiarism does not sound appropriate) becoming the head of the university was witnessed for the first time since the 1980's military coup.

Anti-Maskers: What is The Point of Wearing a Mask?

Ümit Altar BİNİCİ

04.01.2021

Unlike anti-vaxxers, anti-mask protests have emerged only during the COVID-19 pandemic, when the public health regulations put into place globally. While neither of these trends shares a common cause, both of them became a thing thanks to misinformation and fallacies.

Reasons for Economic Contractions: What is Narrative Economics?

Didem ÖZÇAKIR

04.01.2021

The reason why economic contractions happen has been one of the most important and fundamental questions of macroeconomics. There have been several different approaches to explaining these phenomena.