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.

Economic cybercrime is one of the unwelcomed consequences of unprecedented intrusion of the Internet in our daily lives. Academic interest in understanding the causes and adverse impacts of cybercrime is growing. Opportunity perspective, which perceives individuals’ daily routines and lifestyles as the primary facilitator of victimization, has been widely applied as a theoretical and conceptual framework in cybercrime victimization research. However, this approach put the responsibility of the victimization on victims explicitly, which hampers the application of crime prevention and reduction efforts. This book presents the Contextual Vulnerabilities approach based on the significant findings of a doctoral study conducted at Durham University in the United Kingdom. Contextual vulnerabilities approach posits that cybercrime victimization is the outcome of the confluence of contextual factors that are mostly beyond victims’ control. This approach presumes that controlling individual (micro-level), macro-level and socio-cultural vulnerabilities may prevent cybercrime victimization. Though the preliminary goal of this book is to provide a new theoretical perspective to scholars researching victimization in cyberspace, I hope the wider audience would find it informative.

Nakit bütçeleri de nakit yönetiminde kullanılan en önemli araçlardan biridir. Bir planlama aracı olarak nakit bütçeleri oluşturulurken tek bir faaliyet hacmine bağlı kalınması, nakit bütçelerine değişimlerin yansıtılmamasına neden olarak işletmenin gelecekteki nakit akışları hakkında doğru ve güvenilir bilgiler sunmayacaktır. Belirsizlik ve rassallığın ön planda olduğu durumlarda, hazırlanacak olan nakit bütçelerinin mevcut koşulların dışında karşılaşılabilecek tüm değişimleri içerir bir yapıya sahip olması gereklidir. Hazırlanacak nakit bütçeleri yönetime, nakit bütçesi değişkenlerinin aralarındaki ilişki veya değişkenlerin işletmenin nakit dengesi üzerindeki etkisini görebilme diğer bir ifadeyle yönetime farklı senaryolar sunarak bu senaryolara göre gelecekte karşılaşabilecekleri durumu öngörebilme ve bu doğrultuda geleceklerini planlayabilme imkânı vermelidir. Bu amaçla işletmelere önerilecek tekniklerden biri simülasyondur.

Bu doğrultuda çalışmanın amacı, deterministik simülasyon tekniğini kullanarak nakit bütçesi üzerinde senaryo analizi yapmak ve Monte Carlo simülasyonu tekniğini kullanmak suretiyle işletmelerin geleceğe yönelik nakit akışlarının planlanmasına ilişkin bir yapı sunmaktır.

Bu amaçla çalışmada, nakit bütçesi ve simülasyon tekniği anlatılarak, bir üretim işletmesinin verilerinden faydalanmak suretiyle simülasyon tekniği ile nakit bütçeleri oluşturulup işletmelere farklı koşullar altındaki nakit durumlarını görmelerine ve risk değerlendirmesi yapabilmelerine olanak verecek bir yaklaşım ortaya konulmuştur. Sonrasında Monte Carlo simülasyon tekniğinin uygulanması suretiyle nakit bütçesinin temel dinamikliklerindeki değişiklikleri öngörmek suretiyle gelecek faaliyet dönemine ilişkin nakit açık ve fazlasının ne kadar olacağının öngörülmesine ilişkin bir yapı sunulmuştur.

The book “Money laundering phenomenon – foundations, trends, impact and governance in banking industry” explores foundation, models (methods) to measure money laundering, trends, auditing Anti-Money Laundering structures in banking industry, AML risk assessment, impact/effects of money laundering, governance, and regulatory point of view.

The book includes some models that have been used to measure the amount of money laundering, respectively the effect of money laundering in various macroeconomic variables such as economic growth, consumption, investment, government expenditure, export and import. Moreover, there are presented some trends that may dominate in the AML field for coming years.

The strengthening of international cooperation in the field of anti-money laundering have given power to international organisations to recommend mitigating measures, standards and principles and applying them in practise, this is why in the book a special chapter is dedicated to international bodies and organisations to fight money laundering phenomenon.

Due to high importance of the AML risk assessment, as a risk management mechanism framework, a specific chapter is dedicated to it.

A special attention is dedicated to the auditing of AML structures in banking and the role of audit in general to AML field.

Last, but not least, in the book a chapter is dedicated to determinants of informal economy, since money laundering and informal economy are interconnected and needs to be studied as one of the challenges for countries.

We believe our book contributes to current literature on money laundering phenomena and that it is important for bankers, policy makers, strategists, academics, and students.