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State Minister Mr. Mehmet Şimşek is not completely wrong
When will the Turkish economy step on the recovery path? When will liquidity start to circulate in the market? Can recovery start alone? This is the issue we must focus…

It is good that the economic administration has left behind the denial period
Turkey, with almost a six-month delay, has for the first time faced the global economic crisis. Sorry, Turkey has for the first time "officially" faced the global…

Honorable Prime Minister of Turkey, have you ever watched “Alo Presidente”?
Please watch. Did you know that Hugo Chavez Frias, President of Venezuela, is also a television star in Venezuela? Yes, he is literally a television star. Since 1999,…

“Masallah, you are doing very very well”
State Minister Mehmet Şimşek addressed to corporate sector, banking sector, households and in general all of us "masallah, you are doing very very well". I wonder what…

Obama asked Turkey to dance. But, is Turkey ready?
Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America (USA) came to Turkey at the last stop of his Europe travel. It is possible to attach a number of meanings…

Why does the popularity of rightist Erdoğan go down while that of leftist Lula goes up?
It seems that the situation is genuinely bad. Moreover, things are not getting any better for the last five months. While rules are doing nothing bur wasting time for…

“This issue is economic!”
In the elections carried out last weekend, votes for the ruling party decreased by around 20 percent. You can say "The crisis did not originate in Turkey. It was…

It is never too late to mend
For the last three days we have been talking about the negative impacts of the global crisis on Turkey and how these impacts can be limited. Actually, it is possible to…

Did you see the logo of Recovery Program?
Sometimes, how do you do something might be as important as that thing itself. The campaign in the US to tackle the crisis, which also involves the struggle against the…

“Man, is the crisis ending?”
No, it is not. What makes you think so? It is not even close. That the Turkish government has finally started to move in the right direction is not enough. There are…

Turkish government is finally moving in the right direction
Finally, news stating that a set of steps considering the troubled sectors will be taken has been spreading around. In fact, we do not know what is going on exactly…

This is not just an economic crisis
Are you aware that the current global disaster is not just an economic crisis in the sense we have been used to during the last three decades? Decision-makers, including…