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‘Major detention’ for Turkey’s construction boom

4 Ocak 2014
Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News January/ 04 /2014 The Justice and Development Party (AKP) era is remembered and will be remembered with construction. Rapid rises in construction investments were…Read more →

Gold at center of corruption, money laundering allegations hitting Turkish gov’t

29 Aralık 2013
Araştırma - Haber, English

Mustafa Sönmez /Hürriyet Daily News /Dec.27 2013 Corruption operations that topped Turkey’s agenda and caused ministers’ resignations are continuing with focus on gold. The operations, encompassing three different investigations, including…Read more →

Turkish economy not vivid this year except budget performance

22 Aralık 2013
Araştırma - Haber, Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News, December 21 2013 As we are approaching the end of the year, the report card grades of the Turkish economy have started to become obvious.…Read more →

‘Car mania’ spreads like wildfire in big Turkish cities lacking infrastructure

15 Aralık 2013
English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News/December/14/2013 Heavy traffic makes our lives unbearable in big cities, especially in Istanbul. Let’s have a look at what the 2014 Program of the government…Read more →

Turkey limits consumer loans out of fear for current deficit

8 Aralık 2013
Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News, 8 December 2013 Turkish Prime Minister Erdoğan said the following words to the public in the Aegean province of Muğla last week: “Please, be sensitive…Read more →

Turkey’s real unemployment rate 20 pct when all jobless considered

1 Aralık 2013
English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ/Hürriyet Daily News, November/30/2013 The number of people who work fewer than 40 hours a week, but would work more if they could find work hiked to 595,000 in…Read more →

Women employment in Turkey shows high rise but low quality

25 Kasım 2013
Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, November/23/2013 Despite women’s participation in labor market rises in Turkey, most of them are employed at works that require less qualifications or don’t provide…Read more →

Turkey unable to make good money from tourism sector

17 Kasım 2013
Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English, Genel

Mustafa SÖNMEZ -Hürriyet Daily News/ November 16 2013 Although Turkey is one of the hottest tourism spots and attracting around 35 million foreign tourists in a year, its tourism income…Read more →

Municipalities’ paltry share of budget an obstacle to democratization

9 Kasım 2013
English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ - Hürriyet Daily News, November/09/2013 Local administrations are only able to use 10 percent of the public expenditures in Turkey, according to OECD data. This is a huge…Read more →

Decade by decade review on 90th year of Republic

3 Kasım 2013
Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ- November/02/2013 It will take just ten years until the celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Turkish Republic, which was founded on ruins of an old empire. Every…Read more →

Spain, Portugal, Turkey: Spot the similarities

26 Ekim 2013
Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Mustafa SÖNMEZ - October/26/2013 Madrid, Porto, Lisbon and the Iberian peninsula made me reconsider what Portugal and Spain have and do not have in common with Turkey. Being Mediterranean is…Read more →

Is income disparity just 8-fold in Turkey? You should think again

20 Ekim 2013
Araştırma - Haber, English

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ Hürriyet Daily News/ October 19 2013 Turkey’s income distribution survey is based on solely announcements by participants. As the incomes declared by wealthy classes and upper or…Read more →

Wage workers constitute two-thirds of total workforce, most unregistered

13 Ekim 2013
English, Genel

MUSTAFA SÖNMEZ / Hürriyet Daily News/ October/12/2013 There are around 17 million official wage workers in Turkey, constituting 63.5 percent of the total workforce of 26.3 million people, as of…Read more →