Can Turkey really be a political model for its region?

From the outset of the ‘Arab Spring’, Turkey has pursued an active foreign policy and supported a number of recent popular uprisings throughout the Arab world. Having appeared on Arab TV channels such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya to express Turkish support of political opposition in revolutionary Arab countries, Turkey’s Foreign Minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, is now a familiar and popular figure in the Arab world. The Turkish Prime Minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, conducted an ‘Arab Spring Tour’, where he visited post-uprising Tunisia, Egypt and Libya. In his visit to the latter, Erdogan was greeted at the airport by chairman of Libya’s new National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdul-Jalil. He has even been compared by some to the late Gamal Abdel Nasser, whose pan Arab propaganda, amongst other factors, made him a regional hero in the 1950s

On groups with the same character degrees as almost simple groups with socle the Mathieu groups

Let $G$ be a finite group and $cd(G)$ denote the set of complex irreducible character degrees of $G$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a finite group and $H$ is an almost simple group whose socle is Mathieu group such that $cd(G) =cd(H)$, then there exists an Abelian subgroup $A$ of $G$ such that $G/A$ is isomorphic to $H$. This study is heading towards the study of an extension of Huppert's conjecture (2000) for almost simple groups.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1108.0010 by other author

Modelling and Estimating Gasoline Demand Using AIDS for Urban Low-Income Groups

One of the biggest problems facing humanity today is the shortage of non-renewable groundwater resources. Since these resources have fewer alternatives, the onlyway to survive these resources is optimal utilization of them. The purpose ofthis study is to estimate the gasoline demand in urban low-income groups. Instead of a single equation of gasoline demand, demand is modelled as a multi-equation demand system. For this purpose, a low-income group is considered for which the AIDS is estimated and assumptions are reviewed. In this research, the demand for commodities of low-income group is investigated within urban households in Iran. Using time series data relating to 1991-2009 and AIDS equations, equations of commodity consumption expenditure were estimated using seemingly unrelated regressions. The results indicate that the gasoline is a luxury commodity for low-incomegroups. In addition, gasoline is a low attractive commodity for this group