Research questions may arise from various sources. For example, one can get a research question from a discourse with colleagues or from their works and writing. Students may not be excellent source of emerging research questions but their interesting questions generally activate new paths to explore. Roselle and Spray (2011, 5) suggest some sources that may be useful to search for your research topic:

• Textbooks
• Scholarly literature
• Some scholarly articles that contain listings of particular groups of cases
• Some scholarly websites which contain the databases you can explore
• Websites of respected international organizations such as International Monetary Fund, International Labor Organization; intergovernmental organizations such as United Nations and the World Trade Organization.
• Websites of governmental and non- governmental organizations.
• Websites of government agencies such as Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Presidency of the Republic of Turkey.
• Reference books such as almanacs and books that contain helpful listings of the related field.