The number of SMEs operating in Turkey with EU capital has increased from 4,000 in 2003 to 15,000. Turkey’s per capita GDP has reached 50% of the...

  Turkey’s economy and public life today is deprived of the skills and creativity of half of its population. Turkish women do not get jobs....

  Turkey is a country where you can rent a car; India is not. But there are interesting similarities between the two countries. There are two...

  The share of FX liabilities in the Central Bank’s total debt rose from 44 to 67 percent. On Tuesday, I addressed the positive aspects of the...

  The best exit strategy for Turkey is to hope for the creation of a negotiation table in Syria. In Syria, as the number of dead and refugees...

  In Turkey, as spending on housing contributes more to the GDP, the domestic savings rate decreases. Turkey is not like China. When it achieves...

  Banks are now allowed to keep a certain proportion of required reserves for lira deposits in FX. Quite a while ago the Central Bank (CB)...

Since 1960, GDP per capita gap between G7 countries and Turkey has not changed much. As you might remember, in one of last week’s commentaries, I...

  Did you know that Northern Cyprus’s is not performing as strongly as Muğla in terms of tourism? When it comes to the economy of Cyprus, I...

  So, now it is a greater probability that in the third quarter, growth rate might be weaker than the 2.9 percent in the second quarter. Last week...