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What do metropoles give to the state, what do they take from it?

• 8 Mayıs 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa Sönmez/Hürriyet daily News- May 05 2014 The Turkish economy has recorded an average of 4.5 percent annual growth in the past 10 years. This growth, which has been made…Read more →

Private-public partnership projects reach $88 billion

• 1 Mayıs 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English, Genel

Mustafa Sönmez -Hürriyet Daily News  April/28/2014 Instead of the state putting on an investor cap for public infrastructure investments that are mostly in the energy, transportation and port sectors, the…Read more →

Employment in Turkey resisting against low foreign inflow and growth

• 21 Nisan 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/April 20 2014   The difficulties experienced in foreign financing have immediately shown themselves in the financing of the current account deficit. However, despite…Read more →

Istanbul’s income earned by a few construction groups during AKP rule

• 15 Nisan 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/April 14 2014   During the ruling AKP era, construction firms have earned huge income from projects. However, these same companies also face serious…Read more →

Turkey’s foreign debt surpasses 47 percent of national income

• 10 Nisan 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ /Hürriyet Daily News /April 7 2014 When Turkey’s 2013 growth external debt stock data was released last week, the dimensions and the content of the external debt…Read more →

Wage earning on the rise as entrepreneurship declining

• 31 Mart 2014
• English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/March/31/2014 The share of wage earners in total employment has exceeded 64 percent whereas the number of “self-employed” has remained the same over the past…Read more →

Foreign capital flow halts amid fuse of forex reserves

• 25 Mart 2014
• English, Genel

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, March 24/2014   Turkey has been witnessing radical changes in its vitally important foreign capital inflow and economic turbulence corresponding to that in…Read more →

Rising fragilities in post-Soviets risk for under-pressure Turkish economy

• 18 Mart 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, March 17, 2014 The global crisis-fuelled economic straits being experienced in countries classified as “EasternEurope and the Commonwealth of Independent States” by the IMF  and World…Read more →

Sustainability of flight growth in question amid rising costs

• 10 Mart 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

  Mustafa SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News   Civil aviation has become one of the fastest growing sectors during the Justice and Development Party (AKP) rule due to facilities provided for…Read more →

Consumers, entrepreneurs lose faith in Turkish economy’s future

• 24 Şubat 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News / February /22 /2014 The Turkish consumers’ confidence has declined 42 percent from May 2013 to February 2014 and the distrust especially deepened after…Read more →

The bill of the rise in the dollar exchange rate will be double digit inflation

• 11 Şubat 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ -Hürriyet Daily News  Feb/10/2014 The January inflation rate has even exceeded the Central Bank’s expectation survey and hit 1.72 percent. Thus, the 12-month consumer price hikes reached 7.5…Read more →

High interest rate to usher in low growth and higher unemployment

• 4 Şubat 2014
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez   February 3/2013 Faced with the shock of seeing the U.S. dollar hit 2.40 Turkish Liras, Turkey’s economic administrators were forced to take up the weapon of the interest…Read more →

No slowdown in foreign exchange rate’s climb after political crisis

• 27 Ocak 2014
• English, Genel

Mustafa Sönmez/Hürriyet Daily News, January/27/2014 With the signaling of FED Chair Ben S Bernanke in May 2013 that the United States would reduce bond purchases and increase interest rates, foreign…Read more →

Foreign investments inflow falls with deepening of political crisis

• 20 Ocak 2014
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News/January/20/2014 The month of May in 2013 was a critical month both for the world and the Turkish economy.  After Dec. 17, 2013, the Turkish economy,…Read more →

Conflict between Gülen Movement and Turkey’s ruling AKP reflected in business world

• 12 Ocak 2014
• English, Genel

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, 11-1-2014 Demonstrators protest to demand the government’s resignation after the graft scandal in this Dec 27 file photo. Turkey’s top business organizations have also…Read more →