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Sedat Laçiner has been designated a Young Global Leader in 2006

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* Representing Turkey Dr. Sedat Laçiner joins 175 leading executives, public figures and intellectuals under the age of 40 from 50 countries who have been selected to collectively shape the future. * Laçiner is the first Turkish who named YGL in the intellectuals category. Geneva, Switzerland 9 January 2006 - The Forum of Young Global Leaders, an affiliate of the World Economic Forum, proudly announces today that Assist. Prof. Dr. Sedat Laçiner, founding president of Ankara based Turkish think tank the International Strategic Research Organisation (USAK), has been named a Young Global Leader 2006. Laçiner is one of 44 Europeans chosen to become Young Global Leaders in 2006 and will join a global community now including 410 leaders from all regions and stakeholder groups. Dr. Laçiner has been selected YGL in the category of intellectuals. Drawn from a pool of 8,000 candidates from around the world, the Young Global Leaders nominated in 2005 have been selected by a nomination commit...

Turkey Earthquake: What We Learned, What Should We Do?

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By Sedat LAÇİNER, PhD It is not the first time that Turkey has faced an earthquake disaster...  Earthquake, like rain, like snow; a fact of Turkish lands... one of the most common events we encounter in our daily lives... Almost all of our lands are on fault lines and tens of thousands of earthquakes are recorded every year in our country... An earthquake of magnitude 4 and above happens almost every day... According to earthquake records, there have been at least 23 earthquakes with a magnitude of 7 and above in our lands since the 1500s. In other words, there have been approximately 5 major earthquakes every 100 years, which causes a major earthquake on average every 20 years. Moreover, some of them are earthquakes that cause great loss of life. For example, in the Great Erzincan Earthquake of 27 December 1939, 33,000 people lost their lives, 100,000 were injured… More than 116,000 houses were destroyed in this earthquake… The earthquake was 7.9 and it was definitely a big ea...

Russia's Depopulation Problem: Causes and Results

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RUSSIA'S DEPOPULATION PROBLEM Causes and Results. Is Russia Dying? December 2022 By Sedat LAÇİNER (PhD) The slowdown in population growth is the general problem of the modern and developed world. The comforts of modern life and certain features of the 'new society' are driving fertility rates down rapidly. In the 2000s, populations in many OECD countries either stagnated or regressed. Decline of population growth can cause many vital problems in the economy, politics and social relations. Chief among these problems is the difficulties in financing the aging population. The decrease in the proportion of the young population in the total population also negatively affects business life, negatively affecting productivity and creativity in the labor market. Just as the aging of a person causes negativities, the aging of a society brings similar problems: Aging nations begin to lose their vital functions, and they lose their flexibility and productivity in many areas from ec...

Sedat LAÇİNER (Old) Photos - USAK Days

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 Sedat LAÇİNER (Old) Photos - USAK Days USAK President Sedat Laciner making a statement in his office, USAK House 2010 USAK President Sedat Laciner making a statement in his office, USAK House 2010 USAK President Sedat Laciner making a statement in his office, USAK House 2010 Official aircraft of the Prime Minister. USAK President Sedat Laciner and other academics and journalists talking foreign policy issues with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan - On the way to Diyarbakir, 2011 USAK President Sedat Laciner evaluates the latest developments in the Parliament office with Cemil Çiçek, President of the Turkish Grand National Assembly. With Cemil ÇİÇEK, Speaker of the Turkish Parliament                                                                         Pakistan, 2010 TUYAP ISTANBUL Book Fa...