Categories Business Financial Times: Central bank policy zigzags leave Turkey’s small businesses struggling Atilla YeşiladaPosted on1 April, 2021 THIS ONLY AN EXCERPT, republished because it has new value for Turkey After … Continue ReadingFinancial Times: Central bank policy zigzags leave Turkey’s small businesses struggling
Categories Business Politics Turkey to complain to WTO over informal Saudi boycott Cem CetingucPosted on31 March, 202131 March, 2021 Turkey is to take the semiofficial boycott by Saudi Arabia on made-in-Turkey goods to the … Continue ReadingTurkey to complain to WTO over informal Saudi boycott
Categories Business Company & Industry Company Outlook | Mavi: Emerging stronger Cem CetingucPosted on30 March, 202130 March, 2021 Managing inventories, preserving margins: Despite a c26% drop in retail revenues in FY21 and an … Continue ReadingCompany Outlook | Mavi: Emerging stronger
Categories Business Saudi Arabia shuts down the export door to Turkey Atilla YeşiladaPosted on27 March, 2021 DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) – The value of Saudi Arabian imports from Turkey, already … Continue ReadingSaudi Arabia shuts down the export door to Turkey
Categories Business HYPED Climate change hits Turkey hard Atilla YeşiladaPosted on26 March, 2021 Turkey experienced this year the third warmest winter in the last 50 years after 1971 … Continue ReadingClimate change hits Turkey hard
Categories Business HIGHLIGHTS Politics DW: EU offers rewards for Erdogan’s “good behavior” Atilla YeşiladaPosted on26 March, 2021 EU leaders on Thursday offered the possibility of deepening trade ties with Turkey, they … Continue ReadingDW: EU offers rewards for Erdogan’s “good behavior”
Categories Business Turkey rate hikes slow loan growth, to compress banks’ margins – Fitch Atilla YeşiladaPosted on16 March, 2021 Turkish banks saw slower loan growth in the fourth quarter of 2020 and their margins … Continue ReadingTurkey rate hikes slow loan growth, to compress banks’ margins – Fitch
Categories Business Turkish kitchen appliances: A modest recovery underway Atilla YeşiladaPosted on21 July, 202021 July, 2020 Domestic sales in Turkey’s white goods sector rose 4% year-on-year from January through June and … Continue ReadingTurkish kitchen appliances: A modest recovery underway
Categories Business HYPED Tech Turkish companies e-reaching out to MENA region Atilla YeşiladaPosted on16 July, 202016 July, 2020 Even though Turkey is a latecomer to e-commerce, Covid-19 lockdowns reinvigorated interest in on-line shopping … Continue ReadingTurkish companies e-reaching out to MENA region
Categories Business Tourism in emerging markets faces slow recovery from virus wipe-out: IIF Atilla YeşiladaPosted on16 July, 202016 July, 2020 The coronavirus crisis decimated tourism in developing countries such as the Dominican Republic, Turkey, Vietnam … Continue ReadingTourism in emerging markets faces slow recovery from virus wipe-out: IIF
Categories Business General Bad news for Turkish tourism: EU to extend external travel ban Atilla YeşiladaPosted on14 July, 202014 July, 2020 The European Union will recommend keeping its external borders shut to Americans and most other … Continue ReadingBad news for Turkish tourism: EU to extend external travel ban
Categories Business Jamestown Foundation: Coronavirus Pandemic Provides Surprising Momentum to Trans-Eurasian Rail Transportation Atilla YeşiladaPosted on14 July, 202017 July, 2020 The COVID-19 pandemic generated many challenges for trans-Eurasian transportation corridors as borders were shut down, … Continue ReadingJamestown Foundation: Coronavirus Pandemic Provides Surprising Momentum to Trans-Eurasian Rail Transportation
Categories Business Turkey’s small businesses: We don’t want loans, send cash Atilla YeşiladaPosted on11 July, 202013 July, 2020 Turkey’s broad unemployment gauge climbed to 24.5-30%, according to two noted economists, Dr Ali Orhan … Continue ReadingTurkey’s small businesses: We don’t want loans, send cash
Categories Business Politics Turkey and EU: Relations take a turn for the worse, economy could suffer Atilla YeşiladaPosted on7 July, 20208 July, 2020 Turkey will respond with its own steps if the European Union imposes further sanctions on … Continue ReadingTurkey and EU: Relations take a turn for the worse, economy could suffer
Categories Business Company & Industry Dieageo CEO: Raki output down by 20 million tons; farmers’ losses escalate Atilla YeşiladaPosted on4 July, 20204 July, 2020 The reduction of 20 million tons in production of raki over the last 15 years … Continue ReadingDieageo CEO: Raki output down by 20 million tons; farmers’ losses escalate
Categories Business Company & Industry VW cancels Turkey plant, Anti-Trust Board probes German auto imports Atilla YeşiladaPosted on2 July, 20202 July, 2020 Volkswagen drops plans for new plant in Turkey, citing pandemic German automaker Volkswagen Wednesday … Continue ReadingVW cancels Turkey plant, Anti-Trust Board probes German auto imports
Categories Business Tech Will Turkey ever build a nuclear power plant? Atilla YeşiladaPosted on2 July, 20202 July, 2020 The answer is more political than economic, Ahval News suggests. Turkey doesn’t need a nuclear … Continue ReadingWill Turkey ever build a nuclear power plant?
Categories Business Shipping: Turkey plans to become a “transit port country” Atilla YeşiladaPosted on2 July, 20202 July, 2020 Transport and Infrastructure Minister Adil Karaismailoğlu heralded Turkey’s rise in maritime shipping to top ranks, … Continue ReadingShipping: Turkey plans to become a “transit port country”
Categories Business The EU relaxes international travel, but US, Turkey still out Atilla YeşiladaPosted on30 June, 20207 July, 2020 The European Union (EU) has started to lift some of the travel restrictions that were … Continue ReadingThe EU relaxes international travel, but US, Turkey still out
Categories Business Euromoney: Turkey’s vulnerability is not a shock to risk experts Atilla YeşiladaPosted on30 June, 202030 June, 2020 Coronavirus could not have happened at a worse time for Turkish investors hoping to see … Continue ReadingEuromoney: Turkey’s vulnerability is not a shock to risk experts