{"id":12963,"date":"2026-03-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/utep-president-sami-bektas-challenged-conventional-wisdom-in-his-interview-with-analiz-newspaper\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T16:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T13:46:32","slug":"utep-president-sami-bektas-challenged-conventional-wisdom-in-his-interview-with-analiz-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/utep-president-sami-bektas-challenged-conventional-wisdom-in-his-interview-with-analiz-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP PRESIDENT SAMI BEKTA\u015e CHALLENGED CONVENTIONAL WISDOM IN HIS INTERVIEW WITH ANALIZ NEWSPAPER!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"819\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183-819x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183-819x1024.jpg 819w, https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/utepgm-20260310_185329-3163299183.jpg 1439w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 819px) 100vw, 819px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<p>\u201cThe era of cheap production in Turkey has ended.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>UTEP President Sami Bekta\u015f challenged conventional wisdom in his interview with Analiz Newspaper.<\/p>\n\n<p>He shifted the discussion by stating, \u201cIt&#8217;s not about currency fluctuations, but about brands.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>He leaves a clear question:<br\/>Will we grow by remaining cheap, or by creating value?<\/p>\n\n<p>Details are in Analiz Newspaper.<\/p>\n\n<p>To read the details, please click the link.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/analizgazetesi.com.tr\/gazete\/20-subat-2026-128\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/analizgazetesi.com.tr\/gazete\/20-subat-2026-128<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe era of cheap production in Turkey has ended.\u201d UTEP President Sami Bekta\u015f challenged conventional wisdom in his interview with Analiz Newspaper. He shifted the discussion by stating, \u201cIt&#8217;s not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135],"tags":[146,125,240,184],"class_list":["post-12963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","tag-collaboration","tag-export","tag-news","tag-sami-bektas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12964,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12963\/revisions\/12964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.utep.org.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}