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Wages in Turkey set with orders from on high despite objections

• 1 Aralık 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/ December/01/2014 As the year nears a close, one of the constants on Turkey’s agenda is the question of the minimum wage and pay rises…Read more →

Construction forges ahead in debt, industry left behind

• 24 Kasım 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, /Nov.24.2014 The Central Bank announced last week that, as of end of September, the Turkish private sector’s long-term loans have reached $164 billion. Indeed,…Read more →

Economic distress in Russia to have toll on Turkish economy

• 17 Kasım 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ – Hürriyet Daily News, Nov. 17. 2014 It is considered an indication of the new crisis in Russia that the devaluation of the Russian ruble against the American…Read more →

Turkey’s exports unable to catch the dollar’s wave

• 12 Kasım 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, November/10/2014 The U.S. dollar has been gaining value since May 2013 in all developing countries, including Turkey. The dollar, was 1.86 Turkish Liras between…Read more →

Turkish households lose their appetite for spending on loans

• 3 Kasım 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez     November/03/2014, Hürriyet Daily News Turkish families’ dependency on credit card spending has been slightly decreased compared to last year, according to official figures. Turkish society was introduced to…Read more →

One third of youth neither at work nor at school in Turkey

• 27 Ekim 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, Oct.27 2014 As the world and Turkey proceed toward economic shrinkage, it is the young population who is the most anxious about it. While…Read more →

Crisis cost 5 million jobs in Europe as Turkey boosted employment

• 20 Ekim 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News,October/20/2014 The global crisis is behind us, almost six years on. Even though the epicenter was the United States, the European Union also caught fire…Read more →

Turkey ranks first in the inequality of income distribution

• 13 Ekim 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez – Hürriyet Daily News October/13/2014 Economic growth during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) era was based on the inflow of foreign resources, concentrating on the domestic market.…Read more →

Lira leads the way in emerging-currency devaluation

• 6 Ekim 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - October 5, 2014, Hürriyet D.N. The United States’ Federal Reserve (FED) will cut its bond-buying program as part of plans to end a program that served to…Read more →

Stagnating house sales in Turkey prompt slowdown in construction

• 29 Eylül 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News /September 29, 2014 The slowing of the tempo in housing, the locomotive sector of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) era, and generally…Read more →

As growth slows in Turkey, unemployment climbs

• 22 Eylül 2014
• English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News September/22/2014  Turkey’s growth rate, which had been estimated by official and private institutions and organizations to be around 3 percent for the second quarter…Read more →

Turkey’s trade shrinks with war-torn neighbors Iraq and Syria

• 15 Eylül 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa Sönmez - September/15/2014 Turkey’s foreign trade with its two southern neighbors, both engulfed in violent conflicts, does not look good. There is a decline in the Iraqi market, which…Read more →

Low foreign trade, low growth

• 8 Eylül 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News -September /08/ 2014 Foreign trade indicators from the first seven months show us that the 2014 growth target of 4 percent will be difficult…Read more →

Domestic sales contracting amid Central Bank’s interest moves

• 1 Eylül 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English, Genel

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, September 1 ,2014 There has been an apparent stagnation in the markets and even a recession in sales, and recent economic statistics confirm this…Read more →

Inflow of foreign money down as unregistered capital steps in

• 25 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News /August 25 2014 Turkey’s chronic disease, the current account deficit, was $24 billion in the first half of 2014, a 35 percent decline on…Read more →