If unemployment rate were 10 or 10.5 percent today, would Fitch still upgrade Turkey to the investment level? Many developed countries have still...

  Ankara will not become a developed city just because the municipality hangs advertisements on billboards everywhere claiming that it is indeed a...

The management of the PKK problem by the Erdoğan government is more difficult and costly compared to the early years of the AKP rule. The...

  Although certain monetary policy models go out of date and are replaced by more fashionable ones, transparency was never abandoned as a...

  Anatolian tradesmen and industrialists feel the economic slowdown the most. We are going through an interesting period. Turkey’s economy has been...

  The only factor that could possibly limit foreign exchange inflows towards Turkey and its peers is the risk of a fiscal cliff in the US. Here is...

  Economic recovery in the fourth quarter is probable; but it appears that the recovery, if any, will start at best in November. At times, when I...

  When education and income barriers are passed, women tend to be more active as employers. What first comes to mind when defining Turkey? I...

  The draft shows us that all has been quiet on the YÖK front since its establishment. Last week Radikal had an eye catching headline “One thousand...

  The opposition groups in Syria are still in disarray. Since most of the political and military organizations are “fabricated,” there is no ...