I love Professor Keskinel.
There are reviews on here that complain about his accent. His accent really isn't that strong. A thing I've noticed is that once people can detect the slightest hint of a foreign accent, they act like it's impossible to understand what they are saying.
His classes are really interesting and he's so hilarious. The content is already interesting, and Prof Keskinel makes it even better.
The tests were pretty hard though. And they count for a lot since there's no homework.
I'd definitely recommend this class to anyone.

I had to retake the class due to family issues so I took him twice, once in winter once in spring..

During winter, I went to every single lecture and took very close notes of all his points. The lecture helped me prepare for 20% of the exam.

During spring, I went to 0 lectures and only studied off slides and the textbook questions. If you want the A, go to lecture. If you want B or C, please don't go to lecture.

The textbook has some errors so if you feel like you don't understand, go to office hours to make sure he didn't assign you problems with errors.

I would say Meric is a poor professor, because proficiency of the subject doesn't require his contribution at all. Also he randomly didn't show up to multiple lectures and made the TAs do the lectures (so unprofessional). Oh yeah and if the TAs lecture on what he doesn't cover, you don't need to study it. Wasting your time.

Professor Keskinel was an interesting lecturer. He was very engaging, but he did often say a lot of random facts that he wouldn't put on the board (or if he did, they would be all over the place). Unfortunately, his exams did tend to test a lot of the random historical trivia he said in class, so if you didn't attend class you're stuck trying to guess the right answer. Although Keskinel was quite engaging in class, his exams made the course relatively tough. The class is also curved to the Econ department's standard, so it's entirely possible that the course could get curved down (90% may not necessarily be enough for an A-, for example), so beware.