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Energy Rising As Turkey’s İnvestment Star
 It's not finance, automotives, construction, food or durable goods but rather the energy industry that is most strongly whetting the appetite of companies in Turkey.
The gradually increasing liberalization of the energy market, the formation of established standards, the need for 4,000 megawatts of additional electricity every year, the expected privatization of public electr continue... |
Turkish Construction Sector Aims To Hit $15 Billion Abroad
 Turkey's construction sector has been growing at a record pace, with contractors hoping to build $15 worth of projects abroad in the near-term future.
As in most other developed and developing countries, the construction sector is the engine of Turkey's economy. According to the Konya Chamber of Commerce (KTO), Turkish contractors have a 20 percent share of Turkey's total exports, the Anatolia continue... |
AK Party Wins Big Despite All Odds
 The ruling Justice and Development Party (AK Party) won a landslide victory in yesterday's general elections, leaving its nationalist rivals far behind as it secured an unparalleled 46,9 percent of the national vote, comfortably ensuring that it will again form a single-party government.
The center-left but nationalist Republican People's Party (CHP), the closest rival of Prime Minist continue... |
A Contest To Decide Turkey's Future
 [Financial Times]
This Sunday's general election in Turkey is historic. It was called to resolve a stand-off between the neo-Islamist government of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the army-led secular establishment over the election of the next president.
It is far from clear how this contest will settle that constitutional crisis, which, furthermore, has found little res continue... |
Finding My Inner Farmer
 Planting a pair of kiwi trees seemed like an exotic idea at first, a test to see if our rugged stretch of new-bought mountainside could be made safe for civilized plant life.
The man at the Ministry of Agriculture's Mediterranean Research Station in Antalya certainly thought I looked exotic, too, with my city clothes, soft hands and greenhorn questions.
"You do know that you nee continue... |
Turkish Food: The World's Oldest Fusion Cuisine
 We Turks generally describe our kitchen as "one of the most amazing in the world." Well to my knowledge this is debatable, particularly when there are other popular Euro-cuisines like French and Italian or Eastern flavors such as Chinese or Indian, of course the latter spreading with the help of population movement towards the West in previous decades.
It is really hard to find a pro continue... |
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