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Erdogan initiates economic gestures ahead of Turkey’s critical elections,(Al Monitor, Sept. 28, 2022)

• 2 Ekim 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Wary of his sagging popular support and economic turmoil ahead of elections next year, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appears ready to shower “election candies” on various segments of voters…Read more →

Halt of Mir use deals blow to rising Putin-Erdogan cooperation (Al Monitor, Sept.22 2022)

• 26 Eylül 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

The threat of Western sanctions has tripped up the recent uptick in Turkish-Russian economic cooperation, with two private Turkish banks halting the use of the Russian payment system Mir and three…Read more →

Erdogan looks to Putin to ease foreign currency woes (Al Monitor, Sept.15, 2022)

• 16 Eylül 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Turkey’s energy import bill — standing at $83.5 billion over 12 months in July — is a major factor behind its gaping current account deficit. And with Russia being Turkey’s…Read more →

Turkey’s inflation tops 80% as poverty deepens,(Al Monitor, Sept. 5, 2020)

• 16 Eylül 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

With presidential and parliamentary polls less than a year away, Turkey’s government has bet on growth to contain popular grievances, but runaway inflation and a foreign-currency crunch is producing deeper…Read more →

Turkey’s ‘covert’ interest payments on course to exceed regular ones (Al Monitor, August 23, 2022)ust

• 3 Eylül 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

The compensations — or “covert” interest — that Ankara pays to depositors under a scheme to curb dollarization in Turkey are on course to balloon beyond its interest payments, while the battered…Read more →

Money inflows of unknown origin headed for record in Turkey (August 15, 2022)

• 3 Eylül 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Inflows of $17.5 billion from unknown sources covered more than half of Turkey’s current account deficit in the first half of the year — and the rate could reach a…Read more →

Turkey’s current account gap widens, with no respite in sight for the lira, (Al Monitor, August.11,2022)

• 3 Eylül 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Turkey’s current account deficit widened to $32.4 billion in the first half of the year, Central Bank data showed Thursday, as financing the gap is becoming harder and no respite appears in…Read more →

Turkey’s inflation hits almost 80% as Erdogan insists on low-rate policy (Al Monitor, August 3, 2022)

• 5 Ağustos 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s annual consumer inflation climbed to 79.6% in July, official data showed Wednesday, and the uptick appears months away from topping out, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan sticking to a controversial policy…Read more →

How realistic are Ankara’s hopes of trading in Turkish liras? (Al Monitor, July 23,2022)

• 5 Ağustos 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Ankara’s long-standing ambition to expand the use of the Turkish lira in foreign trade was back on the agenda this week as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held talks with his…Read more →

Turkey’s economy stands to suffer from euro’s downturn Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/07/turkeys-economy-stands-suffer-euros-downturn(Al Monitor, July 15, 2022)

• 5 Ağustos 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

The euro’s slide to parity with the dollar is producing fresh strains for Turkey’s foreign trade, tourism and external debt liabilities, threatening to further fan the country’s galloping inflation. The…Read more →

Turkey’s runaway inflation soars to near 79% (Al Monitor, July 4, 2022)

• 5 Temmuz 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Consumer prices in Turkey rose 4.95% in June, bringing annual inflation to 78.6%, the highest reading since 1998, according to official data released Monday. The spiraling inflation — fueled mainly by the slump…Read more →

Ankara forces companies to sell hard currency as circle tightens (Al Monitor, June 27 , 2022)

• 5 Temmuz 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

Desperate against galloping inflation but bent on keeping interest rates low, Turkey’s government has turned to interventionist measures akin to capital controls to bolster the embattled lira. The latest is…Read more →

Currency shocks, wild inflation mark Erdogan’s time as executive president (Al Monitor, June 22 2022)

• 5 Temmuz 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Economic advance was a major pledge that President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made in promoting Turkey’s transition to a super-presidency system, but his record after four years as executive president leaves…Read more →

Turkey’s growing current account gap exacerbates lira weakness (Al Monitor, June 13,2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s current account registered a $2.7 billion deficit in April and the gap reached $21.1 billion in the first four months of the year, according to central bank data released Monday, reflecting…Read more →

Turkish consumer inflation soars to 73.5% (Al Monitor, June 3,2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s consumer inflation has hit a 24-year high of 73.5% and the Turkish lira has lost 49% of its value since September as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pursued a controversial…Read more →