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Turkish business circles in-between debt calendar and snap election fears

• 29 Haziran 2015
• English, Genel

  Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News- June/ 29 /2015 Turkish business circles want to see the end of post-election uncertainties and express their concerns to politicians. Many of them…Read more →

Large industry losing blood

• 22 Haziran 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, June/ 22/ 2015 It has been proven by data from “Turkey’s Top 500 Industrial Enterprises - 2014” that the construction-focused, domestic market-oriented growth path…Read more →

A political risk wave on top of economic risks

• 15 Haziran 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News -June/ 15 /2015 Parliament’s seat distribution that came out of the June 7 general election opened a door that could carry Turkey from authoritarianism…Read more →

Lots of activity going on in M&A

• 8 Haziran 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News  June/08/2015, Company mergers and acquisitions (M&A), the trend of the last quarter-century, had an interrupted phase after the global crisis. Sometimes they occurred as the…Read more →

Destocking intensifies amid housing balloon fears

• 1 Haziran 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News, June/ 01 /2015 Data released one day apart last week has revealed that there is a rapid rise in home sales, as well as a…Read more →

High Tension in Wage Negotiations

• 25 Mayıs 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News, May /25 /2015 With only three weeks left before the general elections, the resistance launched by metal workers in major automobile factories in Bursa, one…Read more →

Turkey’s risks likely to increase after election

• 18 Mayıs 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, May/ 18/ 2015 Everybody in Turkey is focus on the upcoming general election. What about after the election? Those economic, political and even…Read more →

Opportunity to choose for the minimum wage earner

• 11 Mayıs 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News,May/11/2015 With three weeks to go until the June 7 general elections, a battle of words among the political parties participating in the elections is…Read more →

Consumer, producer confidence on a downward slide

• 4 Mayıs 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

 Mustafa Sönmez, Hürriyet Daily News, May/ 4/2015 The Economic Confidence Index holds the pulse of consumers and producers in different sectors with 20 different variables. It measures the confidence in…Read more →

The polemic of this election: Where are the finances?

• 27 Nisan 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News,  April/ 27 /2015  With six weeks left to the June 7 elections, survey results show the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) vote…Read more →

Turkish Lira, the champion loser against the dollar

• 20 Nisan 2015
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News - April/20/2015 The dollar/Turkish Lira parity went above the 2.68 level at mid-week last week and it has shown a tendency to remain in…Read more →

Industry shrinks as domestic demand falls

• 13 Nisan 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, April/13/2015  The growth data of 2014 released on the last day of March and preliminary indicators released for the first three months of 2015 show…Read more →

Turkish business world in panic over contraction in economic growth

• 6 Nisan 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News- April/6/2015 “If the GDP growth slows down in the first quarter and a significant recovery cannot be maintained in the following quarters, 2015 will be…Read more →

Turkey enters election year with ‘zero’ growth

• 30 Mart 2015
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/March 30/2015 The Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which targeted 4 percent growth in its program for the 2015, has not had a very positive…Read more →

Fed bound for ‘moderate increase’

• 23 Mart 2015
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News - March/23/2015 For long years, the world economic literature was not locked into a word such as “patient.” When the U.S. Fed turned the…Read more →