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Airport wars flare up in Turkey amid claims of Gulf acquisition (Al Monitor, May 18, 2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s ever-controversial Istanbul Airport is back in the eye of a political storm, sparked by opposition claims that a plan to sell its operations to Gulf investors is behind a…Read more →

Erdogan’s home loan incentives threaten to fan inflation (Al Monitor, May 16, 2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

A loan package to encourage home sales announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last week threatens to further stoke Turkey’s consumer inflation, which is already on course to hit an…Read more →

Turkey’s potential xenophobia goes beyond Syrian refugees (Al Monitor, May 11,2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Dış ekonomik ilişkiler, English

The danger of xenophobia is rising in Turkey as controversy grows over millions of refugees and irregular migrants in the country, ahead of elections next year. The issue goes beyond…Read more →

Turkish inflation jumps from 20% to 70% in just six months (Al Monitor, May 5,2022)

• 18 Haziran 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkish consumer prices rose 7.25% in April and annual inflation hit 69.97%, more than tripling in just six months — a price explosion with few precedents in the recent history of…Read more →

Ankara’s interest liabilities balloon to dizzying heights(Al Monitor, April 25,2022)

• 28 Nisan 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

The Turkish government’s borrowing costs have drastically increased amid spiraling inflation, with the treasury’s interest liabilities reaching 1.75 trillion Turkish liras ($120 billion) in April to outstrip its principal debt…Read more →

Inflation storm worsens Turkey’s income distribution gap (Al Monitor, April 20,2022)

• 28 Nisan 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s galloping inflation, on course to top 100% in the fall, has been causing daunting income transfers from the poor to the rich, worsening further the income distribution gap in…Read more →

Turkey inflation hits 61% as fallout from Ukraine war continues (Al Monitor, April 3, 2022)

• 28 Nisan 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkey’s annual consumer inflation jumped to a new two-decade high of 61.1% in March from 54.4% the previous month as prices rose nearly 5.5% in March alone, fueled by the commodity shock…Read more →

Turkish taxpayers outraged at cost of lira protection scheme (Al Monitor, March 25,2022)

• 28 Nisan 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Public outrage is growing in Turkey over the cost of a government scheme to curb dollarization and prop up the Turkish lira, launched hastily in December to stop the dizzying…Read more →

Turkish minister’s pledge to foreign investors causes uproar at home(Al Monitor, March 18 2022)

• 21 Mart 2022
• Araştırma - Haber, English

Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Nureddin Nebati made the headlines this week with a pledge to “take down” his country’s bureaucracy as he courted foreign investors in France. Though Turkey…Read more →

Dizzying fuel hikes fan popular grievances in Turkey(Al Monitor, March 10,2022)

• 21 Mart 2022
• English

A seemingly endless stream of fuel price hikes has sparked a nationwide outcry in Turkey, where the surge in global energy prices has been amplified by the depreciation of the…Read more →

Turkey’s inflation hits 54.4% as Ukraine crisis threatens fresh blows(Al Monitor, March 03 2022)

• 6 Mart 2022
• English, Makale

Consumer prices rose 4.8% in Turkey in February, bringing annual inflation to a two-decade high of 54.4%, official data showed March 3, as the economic fallout of Russia’s invasion of…Read more →

Turkey’s economy up 11%, but growth brings risk (Al Monitor, Feb.28 2022)

• 6 Mart 2022
• English, Makale

Turkey’s economy grew 11% in 2021, driven by domestic demand, exports and tourism, official data showed Monday. But the flashy rate has been marred by high inflation and appears hard…Read more →

In Turkey, high inflation drives home sales(Al Monitor, Feb.24,2022)

• 6 Mart 2022
• English, Makale

Home prices in Turkey have seen a staggering uptick, fueled by a combination of factors, including a rush for real estate among the well-to-do to protect their savings from inflation,…Read more →

Turkey’s economy to be hit hard by Fed’s expected interest rate hikes (Al Monitor, Feb 17,2022)

• 21 Şubat 2022
• English, Makale

Following a January increase of 7.5% in US year-on-year consumer prices, the Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates in its March meeting in a bid to rein in…Read more →

Pro-Erdogan business leaders anxious about Turkey’s economy (Jan.20,2022, Al Monitor)

• 7 Şubat 2022
• English, Makale

The Independent Industrialists and Businessmen Association (MUSIAD), founded in 1990 as an ally of Turkey’s political Islam movement, has stood behind President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his party through the…Read more →