What’s in Turkey’s new Medium-Term Program?
The announced medium-term program is based on three fundamental pillars: stabilization, discipline, and transformation.
The Waning Reputation of the US Dollar
Using the U.S. dollar as a weapon against other countries in an effort to promote the political interests of the…
A detailed roadmap for Turkey’s new economy
The report, “New System New Economy: A Detailed Roadmap” concentrates on the fields of industrial, agricultural, fiscal, and monetary policies…
Bad journalism against the Turkish economy
The external debt to GDP ratio in the U.K. is an incredible 313 percent. This is only 53 percent in…
Turkey-US relations as the latest victim of Trumpian foreign policymaking
President Trump’s domestic agenda has driven the foreign policy agenda while he makes little effort to synthesize the two. In…
The Turkish Lira against the US Dollar
Many in Turkey and around the world got shocked as the Turkish Lira depreciated tremendously against the U.S. dollar in…
Turkey Needs Somewhat Looser Fiscal Policy Now
The public debt level of the Turkish government is in very low levels that means that the government has an…
Politicization of Finance Against Turkey
Ahead of the snap election in June 2018, Turkey is under a severe financial attack. It is quite apparent that…
Foreign Exchange Market in Turkey: What is Happening? What Should be Done?
Although there is no serious deterioration in economic indicators, it is obvious that there is an intense effort to worsen…
What can Turkey learn from the South Korean Development Experience?
Over the last few years Turkey has started to give more importance to the manufacturing industry in order to reverse…
Does the Tight Monetary Policy Stance of Central Banks Stand Empirical Scrutiny?
Time is more than ripe for the TCMB to reconsider its monetary policy stance and take into account real factors…
What are the Prospects of the Turkish Economy?
A developing country such as Turkey needs not an over-valued currency but certainly an undervalued currency. The Turkish Lira had…
Is the Turkish Economy Overheating?
Reducing the current account deficit and inflation, and making high economic growth sustainable require supply-side structural reforms. These reforms might…
Turkey: New company launches jump over %27 in February
The number of newly established companies in Turkey jumped 27.80 percent last month compared with February 2017, the Turkish Union of…
Turkey: Private sector loans from abroad on rise
The Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey announced that the private sector’s pending long-term loans from abroad rose $5…
Turkey, Sudan to found agriculture, livestock company
Turkey and Sudan will establish a joint agricultural and livestock company, the Turkish government’s Official Gazette announced on Thursday. Under the…
Turkey: Unemployment falls to 10.4 percent
Turkey’s unemployment rate stood at 10.4 percent in December 2017, falling 2.3 percentage points on a yearly basis, the country’s…
Beating forecasts, raising hopes: Turkish economy grows at 11.1
Surpassing all predictions of global rating agencies as well as internal hopes, the Turkish economy registered an 11.1 percent growth…
