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President Tayyip Erdoğan has announced that he will start a new wave of reforms in “law, economy and democracy.” There was no election, the administration did not change, but why is it necessary for a “new reform wave”? The answer lies heavily in the course of the economy. Opposition leaders claim it is a maneuver.
There was one thing that President Tayyip Erdoğan had never done during his rule since 2002: He had never sacrificed a minister targeted by the opposition during the peak of the debate. The first example of this was Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak, his son-in-law. More interestingly, only a few months ago, when Interior
Erdoğan spoke and the markets were thrilled, according to the mainstream Turkish media. The reason is that the value of the Turkish Lira rose to 7.8 per dollar from 8.5 following a year that the government spent $100 billion to keep it initially below initially 6 liras and then 7.And the media does not care
Central Bank Gov. Uysal’s replacement combined with Finance Minister Albayrak’s resignation might signal the end of an era in monetary policy that relied on an unorthodox policy mix with low interest rates and foreign exchange reserve sales. We are still trying to sort out what to expect from the second week of November after a
The government revealed its new economic program for 2021-2023 on Sept. 29. The long-term goals of such programs hardly go beyond being a wish list worldwide. This is because the economy is an equation with so many unknowns. Hence, it can even be difficult to predict the following month not to mention the following year.But
“Turkey is not such a rich country to take an economy lesson that is so expensive,” said economist Uğur Gürses in his most recent article published on Duvar English. Gürses noted that while it’s “painful” to see comments about the Central Bank raising interest rates while the exchange rates are at a record high. Gürses
Easing relations with Greece and the European Union (EU) through diplomatic reconciliation would not heal an economy that is facing other serious problems, but consensus might give a sigh of relief if corrective steps are intended. The U.S. dollar trades over 7.7 per lira as the euro stands near 9 liras. The U.S. Ambassador to
President Tayyip Erdoğan has been saying that everything is fine, but many key issues tend to get out of control. Let’s start listing the problems without further ado. Uncontrolled herd immunity 1- The coronavirus epidemic has spread again, starting to collapse the morale of society. The Covid-19 outbreak, which regressed due to restrictive -but not
1. Low interest-high growth proved unsustainable The first week of September was rather intense in terms of data releases. The growth numbers that were released on August 31 reflected an 11 percent decline compared to the previous quarter. This number is rather close to the OECD average. If we express the Q2 growth in annualized
The deficit and the Resource Curse The cost of extraction and the annual potential production level of 320 billion m3 natural gas recently discovered in the Black Sea have not been clarified yet. But it’s understood that this discovery will provide a substantial resource for the Turkish economy. And upon the discovery of this natural