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Mustafa Sönmez – Hürriyet Daily News, January/25/2016 Foreign direct investments to Turkey, particularly after 2003, increased visibly compared to previous years. However, it is noteworthy that 25 percent of these…Read more →

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News, January/18/2016 The results of the November 2015 balance of payments released last week have confirmed an ongoing trend: The foreign resource inflow that has been…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News,January/ 11/2016 2015 was quite unusual for both Turkey and the world, leaving a series of risks behind for 2016. Amid escalating economic, political and…Read more →

 Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, January/04/2016 Despite increased recent attention to relations with Gulf partners such as Qatar, Turkey remains overwhelmingly dependent on Western sources for foreign direct investment (FDI),…Read more →

l Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, December/ 28/2015 It was 2.5 years ago, in mid-2013, that then-U.S. Central Bank Fed Chair Ben Bernanke gave the signal that interest rates…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, December/21/2015 The huge value losses of the Turkish Lira against the dollar and the euro throughout 2015, as well as the increase in the minimum…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, December/14/2015  Signs are strengthening that falling profits in the industrial sector, particularly acute over the past two years, will drag Turkey into a significant bottleneck…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, 7/12/2015 Something that everybody managed to avoid during the Cold War has now happened. On Nov. 24, Turkey became the first NATO country to shoot down…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, November/30/2015 After the Nov. 1 elections, the markets enjoyed tranquility. The fluctuating and swinging mode had given way to a less turbulent climate; it seemed…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez-Hürriyet Daily News, November/16/2015 The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) prioritized improvement in income distribution in its election manifesto for the June 7 elections, also including pledges to…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, Nov/9/2015 There is an important economic agenda for the Justice and Development Party (AKP), which came to power again with a quite surprising 49…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet daily News- November/2/2015  Within the framework of the U.S. Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) normalization process, the uncertainty on when the first rate hike will happen is continuing,…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News-October/ 26/2015 It is an undeniable fact that the economy has played a dominant role in the Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) 13-year rule. The…Read more →

Mustafa Sönmez -Hürriyet Daily News, October/19/2015 A combination of political uncertainty and economic fragility in Turkey, as well as unstable circumstances externally, has forced Ankara’s economic targets for the 2016-2018…Read more →