Murat's Musings

Exclusive: Turkey saves $2 billion on Russian oil as imports soar despite sanctions

Source:Reuters Date:18Dec2023

Turkey became the biggest importer of Russian energy in the Western hemisphere after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine triggered European countries to halt most imports of Russian oil and gas.

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FT: Turkey’s exports of military-linked goods to Russia soar

Source:Financial Times Date:27Nov2023

If you are wondering why US Undersecretary of Treasury Brian Nelson is visting Turkey “to discuss sanctions enforcement”   Efforts to cut off this ghost trade to Russia have been

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Key findings of the 2023 Report on Türkiye

Source:EEAS Date:14Nov2023

Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye 2023 report   The institutional and regulatory environment lacks predictability and transparency and complicates the post-electoral economic

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Turkey: Challenges and strategies toward de-carbonization and sustainable development under the age of finance

Source:The Japanese Political Economy Journal Date:25Oct2023

The aim of this paper is to present the key challenges and structural constraints as well as potential strategies toward de-carbonization and the green transformation in Turkey, and to argue that

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New Economic Corridors in the South Caucasus and the Chinese One Belt One Road

Source:TEPAV Date:23Oct2023

A good answer to the question of whether peace  and prosperity can come Caucusus by fellows of Turkish think-tank TEPAV   Armenia desperately needs connections and investments. The present

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Two presentations that might be of interest

Date:12Oct2020

Breaking a long absence here by posting two presentations that you may find useful… One is from a panel presentation at a recent conference that takes a quick (and critical) look at CBRT

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Turkish crisis in the spotlight – IV

Date:12Sep2018

We are more than a little behind on this one, as these articles should have been posted up earlier (though some have already been done so in our Turkey in the Foreign Press section ), but we

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Turkish crisis in the spotlight – III

Date:28Aug2018

Here is another update or compilation of stuff that has been coming out on Turkey’s economic troubles these days — (for our previous installment, click here). In a Bruegel post, S.

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Turkish crisis in the spotlight – II

Date:23Aug2018

Since I compiled a few commentaries and blogs on the ongoing stress in the Turkish markets here a few days ago, some more interesting stuff came my way. In this article done for the UK-based

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Turkish crisis in the spotlight

Date:20Aug2018

There has been a dizzying coverage of the Turkish “currency crisis” in the international media, with some outlets — like Bloomberg and Project Syndicate — devoting special

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