Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu gave the first signal that Turkey-Egypt dialogue resumed, a major policy change, when he said March 3 that talks began on the Mediterranean maritime jurisdiction zones. Two days earlier, Egypt...
The Economic Reform Package was announced by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on March 12. As an economist who specializes in monetary policy, I found the following statement rather struggling: “We will put the frequently...
The economic reform package announced by President Tayyip Erdoğan on March 12 compares to the Human Rights Action Plan he announced on March 2 in terms of failing to be convincing about introducing a...
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan promised tax exemption for some 850,000 along with cutting public spending in the Economic Reform Package he announced on March 12, bringing Vice President Fuat Oktay to the top seat...
Turkey registered a 1.8 percent growth rate for 2020 and became one of the few countries that achieved positive growth during the pandemic. The growth performance was primarily a consequence of the excessive credit...
It would be appropriate to start this article with a question: “How much does biodiversity contribute to the economy?” Ecologists and economists have sought answers to such questions for decades. Governments of the developing...
Turkey’s long-term supply contracts, accounting for a third of gas imports will expire this year making 2021 a critical one for the country’s short to mid-term energy strategies. The so-called “Western pipeline,” the very...
When COVID-19 hit our lives around these times last year, we hardly anticipated how the year would unfold. What first appeared as a deadly outbreak in China soon took over the entire world. By...
The Jan. 28 press briefing of Central Bank Gov. Naci Ağbal marked the agenda of politics in Ankara and the economy in Istanbul. The meeting was interpreted as complementary to the Jan. 26 written...
Turkey-U.S. Business Council (TAİK) Board of Directors hosted U.S. Ambassador to Ankara, David Satterfield, on Jan. 8 in Istanbul. The purpose of the meeting was to convey the demands of the Turkish companies that...
