Turkey and African countries decade’srelationships provides a concise and wide-ranging introduction to the subject, spanning from the earlier era of the Ottoman Empire, to the Turkish Republic and later, to the Justice and Development Party.

This is an introductory book which provides sources and materials on Turkey and African countries relations. Drawing on history from the Ottoman Empire, to Turkish Republic and the Justice and Development Party, this book provides firsthand information on their relations. Showing how Turkey and African countries that are located on different continents established relationship, it goes on to consider how they support each other at international stages. The book deals, in particular, with political, economic, social and cultural relations between Turkey and African countries; it explorers the challenges they face in military and security terms. This general introductory text benefits students, scholars and researchers eager to gain an insight into Turkey and African countries relations.

Kieran E. Uchehara was formerly a lecturer at Atılım University, Ankara, Turkey. Currently, he is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and International Relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University, Gaziantep, Turkey.

Understanding the behavior of asset prices is essential in evaluating investment decisions so that practitioners and academics have been investigating what assets are worth and whether asset prices are predictable. The degree of stock return predictability is a statistical concept and totally an empirical issue. In this study, we conduct an empirical application on the equity premium forecastability concept. We consider both macroeconomic and technical indicators in order to predict the equity risk premiums of selected thirteen stock markets including Belgium, Greece, Malaysia, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Brazil, Hong-Kong, India, Russia, and South Africa. Incorporating information from all indicators including domestic and foreign macroeconomic indicators, oil price changes, and technical indicators provides in-sample fitting gains. Out-of-sample forecasting results show that the strategy of combining forecasts provides out-of-sample gains. Portfolio performance analyses suggests following the forecasts generated by the proposed models to obtain positive returns over the buy-and-hold strategy.

Bu kitap, Avrupa Birliği ve Kalkınma Ajansları başta olmak üzere, diğer fon sağlayıcı özel kurumlar tarafından çıkılan teklif çağrıları aracılığıyla hibe programlarından finans desteği alarak, Türkiye’nin proje yapabilme ve uygulayabilme kapasitesine katkı sağlamak isteyen tüm sivil toplum kuruluşları, üniversiteler, belediyeler, resmi kurumlar ve şahıslar için hazırlanmıştır.

Uygun ve kabul edilebilir bir proje hazırlayabilmek için dikkat edilmesi gereken Proje Döngüsü Yönetimi örneklerle açıklanmaya çalışılmış ve örneklerle de desteklenmiştir. Yanı sıra örnek proje bütçesi ile bir projenin belki de en zor kısmı daha da görsel bir şekilde sunularak zoru kolaya dönüştürme amaçlanmıştır. Yanı sıra Avrupa Birliği ve Avrupa Birliği – Türkiye ilişkilerine genel bir değerlendirme çerçevesinden yaklaşılmış ve Türkiye’de uygulanan hibe mekanizmaları ve programları hakkında bilgi verilmiştir.