Dollarization and downsizing concerns
Mustafa Sönmez- Hürriyet Daily News, March/ 16 /2015 Since the beginning of the year, in the list of the national currencies of the fragile five, which includes Turkey, devaluating against…Read more →
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Foreign investors in Turkey close to finance, distant from industry
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News - March/ 09 /2015 The focus from the foreign resource inflow into Turkey from 2003 onwards, when the Justice and Development Party (AKP)…Read more →
Interest rate-foreign exchange rate conflict under the shadow of politics
Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News- March/ 02/ 2015 In Turkey’s economic agenda, as in several other emerging countries, there has been a conflict going on for a long time about…Read more →
Turkey’s external gaps growing rapidly
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/ February 23 2015 The “equilibrium” situation in countries’ relations with global economy has vital significance. How much a country can cover its foreign…Read more →
Turkey’s industrial sector highly dependent on raw material imports
Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News - February/16/2015 The Turkish economy, after 2002, by using the foreign capital inflow of an annual average of $40 billion, was able to grow…Read more →
Too many payroll workers, too few trade unions in Turkey
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet DailyNews -Februrary/ 09 /2015 Turkish capitalism has experienced a long period of growth in the period since 2002 when the Justice and Development Party (AKP)…Read more →
Social protection in Turkey, too many words with too little content
Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News February 2 2015 After 2003, while the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) won successive elections, raising its voter share from 30 percent…Read more →
Alarming unemployment figures among university graduates in Turkey
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, January 26 2015 The most alarming aspect of the unemployment reality is that nearly one-fourth of the officially unemployed as of October 2014 consisted…Read more →
The political gain of the construction boom
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, January /19/2015 It could be said that, in the climb of the ruling Justice and Development Party’s (AKP) regime beginning in 2003, in the…Read more →
The dollar will again shake the world in 2015
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/Jan.12. 2015 The U.S. dollar, which rapidly strengthened in 2014, shook the world’s several local currencies, strong or weak, last year. Many local currencies…Read more →
Expectations not met, confidence decreasing in Turkey’s economy
Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, /Jan.5/2015 Expectation surveys that measure the confidence of the real sector and consumers regarding the economic policies applied and their expectations related to the…Read more →
Turkish Lira under dollar pressure
The year 2014 has been one in which the Turkish Lira plummeted under heavy pressure from the U.S. dollar. The lira last saw such pressure in 2009, the year…Read more →
Umbrella upturns: Growth slows, unemployment soars in economy
Mustafa Sönmez Hürriyet Daily News /December -22 -2014 The U.S. will make the plane ascend with the interest rate increases it will introduce, after abandoning the loose monetary policies it…Read more →
Agricultural Turkey rapidly becoming importer of farm goods
MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ – Hürriyet Daily News, December/15/2014 Inflation is continuing to be a major issue for Turkey; consumer inflation at the end of 2014 will be between the 9 and…Read more →
Who wins and who loses as crude oil prices plunge?
Mustafa Sönmez – Hürriyet Daily News, December 8 2014 With the crude oil barrel price falling as low as $80, the benefits that energy-importer Turkey will enjoy are being exaggerated,…Read more →