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Tourkey offers fresh money to companies, seeks donations for the poor amid coronavirus crisis (Al Monitor, April 2, 2020)

• 3 Nisan 2020
• English, Makale

In a move that has stunned millions expecting government support against the COVID-19 crisis, Ankara has launched a campaign to collect donations from the public, lacking the funds to provide…Read more →

Turks demand ‘helicopter money’ as coronavirus crisis worsens(Al Monitor, March 30,2020)

• 3 Nisan 2020
• English, Makale

Article Summary Turkey’s government faces growing pressure for direct cash injections to support the vulnerable masses as the coronavirus outbreak threatens grave fallout for the already ailing Turkish economy. Onur…Read more →

Ankara’s economic measures bring little relief against virus crisis Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/03/turkey-coronavirus-aid-package-bring-little-relief-economy.(Al Monitor, March 23, 2020)

• 27 Mart 2020
• English, Makale

Governments across the world have sprung into desperate action to curb the massive economic impact of the coronavirus crisis, but the efficiency of the measures remains largely uncertain in the…Read more →

Is Turkey ready for social distancing?(Al Monitor, March 19, 2020)

• 27 Mart 2020
• English, Makale

Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the concept of social distancing has gained popularity, bringing with it two important questions: Do countries have sufficient technological infrastructure to implement the concept? And how many…Read more →

Coronavirus climbs up Turkey’s economic risk ladder (Al Monitor, March 12, 2020)

• 14 Mart 2020
• English, Makale

The global fallout from the coronavirus outbreak is turning up pressure on the struggling Turkish economy, which has long been stuck in a roller coaster of domestic and foreign tensions.…Read more →

Turkey Pulse Looming coronavirus threat adds to Turkey’s economic woes

• 5 Mart 2020
• English, Makale

The fast-spreading coronavirus has dampened global economic prospects for 2020, a year that many had hoped would see a revival in the fragile world economy. For Turkey, the threat comes…Read more →

Debt ordeal hovers over Turkey’s ‘megaproject’ builders (Al Monitor, Feb.21, 2020)

• 22 Şubat 2020
• English, Makale

Saddled with two-thirds of the country’s external debt stock, the Turkish private sector is going through a rough patch amid the slump of the Turkish lira, which has badly exacerbated…Read more →

Fresh currency fears loom over Turkey (Al Monitor, Feb.13,2020)

• 15 Şubat 2020
• English, Makale

Turkey’s government has taken fresh steps to keep exchange rates under control as a resurging dollar threatens to further weaken the Turkish lira, although such interventions erode confidence in the…Read more →

Turkey’s AKP stumbles in efforts to restore economic confidence (Al Monitor, Feb.6, 2020)

• 7 Şubat 2020
• English, Makale

. Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has made little headway in restoring economic confidence among consumers and investors since economic turmoil hit in 2018, a setback that will…Read more →

Turks question ‘quake taxes’ after deadly tremor , Al Monitor, Jan.30 2020

• 31 Ocak 2020
• English, Makale

A deadly earthquake in eastern Turkey has rekindled questions about how the government spends billions of liras in “quake taxes” in a country crisscrossed by fault lines and whose biggest…Read more →

Why risky Istanbul airport gets preferential treatment, Al Monitor, Jan.24 2020

• 26 Ocak 2020
• English, Makale

Less than a year after it became fully operational, Istanbul’s posh new airport is already vindicating critics who had argued that the project is irrational and would create a financial…Read more →

Don’t believe media buzz about Arab buying spree in Turkey , Al Monitor, Jan16th 2020

• 16 Ocak 2020
• English, Makale

Turkey has been abuzz over the past few years with talk about Arab purchases in the country, suggesting a significant flow of Arab money into real estate investments such as…Read more →

Economics or politics: What’s driving Turkey’s electric car project? ,Al Monitor,Jan 7, 2020

• 8 Ocak 2020
• English, Makale

A much-hyped project for a Turkish-brand electric car has dominated Turkey’s agenda in recent days, along with a similarly sensational plan for an artificial waterway as an alternative to the…Read more →

Turkey’s taxpayers in dark over bill of big investment projects (Al Monitor, December 9, 2019)

• 18 Aralık 2019
• English, Genel

The public-private partnership (PPP) model has become a prominent form of public investment in Turkey during the 17-year rule of the Justice and Development Party (AKP), used in key projects…Read more →

Turkey’s economic crisis takes toll on wealth holders (Al Monitor, Nov.27, 2019)

• 1 Aralık 2019
• English, Genel

The Turkish Statistics Institute (TUIK) is yet to release income distribution figures for 2019, but the Global Wealth Report by the financial giant Credit Suisse puts Turkey among the countries that saw…Read more →