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Turkey’s risks under review amid tense regional politics

• 20 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ -Hürriyet Daily News , August /18 /2014 The looming tension between supporters and opponents of president-elect Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the domestic struggle within the ruling Justice and Development…Read more →

Target likely missed as inflation in Turkey heads toward 10 percent

• 11 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News, August /11 /2014 Inflation is a “monster” that Turkey, like many other emerging economies, sees as a threat to the wealth of the economy,…Read more →

Alla Turca commercialization of education amid university boom

• 5 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/ July/21/2014 At a time when the domestic market is shrinking there are two products that can be seen prominently in the media: Housing and…Read more →

Democratic autonomy faces off with centralization in presidential polls

• 5 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English, Kürt sorunu

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News/August/04/2014 The fact that Selahattin Demirtaş, the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), has also joined the presidential elections, alongside Erdoğan and joint…Read more →

Turkish families borrowing at a level more than half of their assets

• 2 Ağustos 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News , July/28/2014 Turkey, with its state, corporations and individuals, has rapidly learned how to borrow in recent years - something it had previously been…Read more →

Unemployment in big cities won’t ease unless industry is developed

• 15 Temmuz 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News   July/14/2014 Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) released the employment-unemployment data of 2013 according to provinces. However, the unemployment rates given for each 81 provinces have…Read more →

Low growth, low foreign trade deficit in Turkey

• 9 Temmuz 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News July/07/2014 With the first half of the year behind us, the climate for the Turkish economy is totally different from the first half of…Read more →

Minimum wage of $14 a day highly inadequate, outdated for workers

• 1 Temmuz 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News/ June 30 2014 On July 1, Turkey’s minimum wage will be “updated.” For a single worker without any children, it will be net 891…Read more →

Cost of Iraq on Turkey’s economy raises concerns

• 23 Haziran 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News / June 23 2014 While the effects of the storm in Iraq on the Turkish economy are beginning to be felt, their consequences in…Read more →

Turkey’s exports get going when growing gets tough

• 19 Haziran 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

  Mustafa Sönmez - Hürriyet Daily News June/16/2014 Before 1980, the Turkish economy concentrated on the domestic market. As in many similar countries, it was trying to develop its “baby…Read more →

Foreign exchange rate increases amid fluctuating foreign trade

• 13 Haziran 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News /June /9/ 2014 The structure based on a low foreign exchange rate policy that Turkey has been following for some time due to the…Read more →

Housing boom rings alarm bells

• 3 Haziran 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, /June 2 /2014   Especially in recent months, there has been a tangible fall in house sales. Loss of appetite in the usage…Read more →

Mining: The sector with low added value, high loss of life

• 28 Mayıs 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

    MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, May/26/2014 The occupational murder in Manisa province’s Soma district shocked the whole world and generated grief with its official death toll of…Read more →

High tax burden on lower income groups further deepens injustice

• 21 Mayıs 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

 Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News- May/19/ 2014 The tendency in Turkey’s income distribution, which follows a course against the working classes, has not resulted in changes to the tax…Read more →

Inflation climbing while Turkish wage-earners always left behind

• 13 Mayıs 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/ May 12 2014 The April consumer prices which increased higher than expected at a rate of 1.3 percent have caused despair about the…Read more →