If Turkey’s gold exports were one million dollar lower; growth rate would be 2.6 percent instead of 3.2 percent. Recent changes in domestic...

  Most of the OIC countries have closed and heavily controlled economies and they don’t trade enough among themselves. Because their governments...

  Any country willing to undertake a regional role has to go beyond rural coffee talk. The other day in Barcelona, an official from a company that...

  In 2012 Turkey can achieve 4 percent growth as targeted in the Medium Term Program, which is in harmony with my expectations for soft...

  The tension in Turkey-Syria relations is rising. For now, no one expects a conventional war. However, this does not mean that there is no ...

  Though growth rates have decreased remarkably, there appears a soft rather than the dreaded hard landing. Gross domestic product (GDP) for the...

  To be able to assess the countries of the region with a different perspective, Turkey has to compile data. You cannot easily become the...

  When designing and implementing economic policies, “potential future budget deficits” must be taken into account. Now it is way easier to explain...

  In the past, Syria has sponsored Kurdish rebels inside Turkey. Now Turkey seems to be sponsoring a similar insurgency inside Syria. There are...

  The key challenge is to enrich the people and strengthen the middle class. Without a strong middle class, Turkey cannot become a high-income...