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 ...

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

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

  It is highly probable that slow growth – zero or negative growth when adjusted to population growth – has pertained in the second quarter of the...

  If Turkey could improve its female labor force participation rate to that of South Korea, it could have a national income of $1.1 trillion today....