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Aysenur Karagoz

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Contributing writer at EUReflect.

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    Business Diplomat: Investing in Youth Is Public Investment

    This interview brings together Ayşe Nur Karagöz, an EUREFLECT contributor with a Master’s degree in Islamic Law and Islamic Political Philosophy, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Evkuran, a distinguished Turkish scholar. The interview argues that international experience builds human capital the way infrastructure builds physical capital, with benefits flowing to exports, investment climate and reputation rather than to the individual alone.

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    Business Diplomat: Awareness in Youth, a Mark on the Economy

    This interview brings together Ayşe Nur Karagöz, an EUREFLECT contributor with a Master’s degree in Islamic Law and Islamic Political Philosophy, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Evkuran, a distinguished Turkish scholar. Business Diplomat's expert interview series argues that the ten-year economic mark of youth training depends less on capital or technology than on whether young people first grasp that a field called business diplomacy exists.

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    Business Diplomat: The Limits of Flexibility and Sincerity

    This interview brings together Ayşe Nur Karagöz, an EUREFLECT contributor with a Master’s degree in Islamic Law and Islamic Political Philosophy, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Evkuran, a distinguished Turkish scholar. A cross-cultural adviser argues that over-adapting reads as weakness and invites harder bargaining, while sincerity and restraint build partnerships that survive long negotiations.

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    Business Diplomat: Strategic Responsibility in Trade

    This interview brings together Ayşe Nur Karagöz, an EUREFLECT contributor with a Master’s degree in Islamic Law and Islamic Political Philosophy, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Evkuran, a distinguished Turkish scholar. The interview reframes commercial etiquette as a security instrument: supplier choices in energy, defence and advanced technology can create dependency or expose sensitive information, so the question becomes whether a meeting should happen at all.

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    Business Diplomat: Commerce, Culture and Diplomacy

    This interview is conducted between Ayşe Nur Karagöz, an EUREFLECT contributor who holds a Master’s degree in Islamic Law and Islamic Political Philosophy, and Prof. Dr. Mehmet Evkuran, one of Türkiye’s prominent academics.

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    Why Is Religion Debated More Harshly in Muslim Societies?

    This article examines why religion is debated with exceptional intensity in Muslim societies. It argues that the harshness of these debates stems not from religious dogmatism, but from religion’s continued role as a constitutive framework for social order, identity formation, and moral legitimacy. Unlike Western modernization—where religion largely retreated into the private sphere—modernization in Muslim societies was often rapid, externally imposed, and institutionally disruptive. As a result, religion became both a target of reform and a refuge of meaning. Drawing on classical and contemporary social theory, the study demonstrates that fierce religious debates signal not decline, but the enduring centrality of religion in contexts marked by identity crises and civilizational uncertainty.