Today's Zaman, your gateway to Turkish daily news :: Business
As the US economy limps toward the second anniversary of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, anemic growth has left unemployment mired near 10%, with little prospect of significant improvement anytime soon.
Azerbaijan expects to iron out all details of a natural gas deal with Turkey by end-March 2011, state energy firm SOCAR said on Wednesday, in a step toward the export of Azeri gas to Europe via the Nabucco pipeline.
Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek has said Turkey will be able to take control of its current account deficit (CAD) in three to five years because it has a sound macroeconomic foundation.
The business world has embarked on a heated debate over the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges (TOBB) after the management of Turkey’s largest business NGO refused to lend open support for a set of proposed constitutional amendments that have garnered overwhelming support from businessmen.
Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yıldız laid the foundation of a thermal power plant that is expected to provide employment to 3,000 people in a ceremony in the central Anatolian province of Çankırı on Wednesday.