X255: Turkey as an Emerging Market
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Country Descriptions and Profiles
IU Inner Asian & Uralic National Resource Center
Online portal for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development publications issued since 1998, including statistics. Select Turkey from the drop-down list of countries.
Features authoritative reference content and scholarly commentary on Islamic history, the faith and concepts of Islam, the people, tenets and practices, politics, culture, and more.
Turkey: Country Analysis Report
The article provides analyses of the political, economic, social, technological, legal and environmental (PESTLE) structure in Turkey.
Finance, Trade, and Commerce
BuyUSA.gov U.S. Commercial Service: Turkey
From the U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration. U.S. Commercial Service (USCS) Provides information to U.S. businesses exporting goods and services, including trade agreements, market research, trade event lists, industry specific information.
Produced by the World Bank, this database provides information on business regulations and their enforcement in many countries. Countries are ranked according to ease of doing business. The Doing Business Indicators are comparable across 175 economies. These indicators include starting a business, dealing with licenses, employing workers, registering property, getting credit, protecting investors, paying taxes, enforcing contracts, and others.
Economist.com Country Briefings: Turkey
A Web resource highlighting recent articles and a country profile. Includes forecast, factsheet, economic data, political structure and forces, economic structure and more.
Evaluates growth prospects, assesses opportunities and examines problems. Provides concise and lucid business-oriented analysis of the latest economic and political indicators.
Emerging Markets Monitor: Turkey
Search of Emerging Markets Monitor in Business Source Premier for articles on Turkey.
FITA, The Federation of International Trade Associations, website includes general information as well as information on market access, economic indicators, taxes, labor market, agriculture, media, and more.
Created by the Center for International Business Education and Research at Michigan State University globalEDGE contains country specific news, statistics, history, economics, and government data.
Index of Economic Freedom: Turkey
A Web resource evaluating the following areas: Turkey's trade policy, fiscal burden of government, government intervention in the economy, monetary policy, capital flows and foreign investment, banking and finance, wages and prices, property rights, regulation, and black market.
Non-governmental agency committed to improving trade between the United States and Turkey.
Another non-governemental agency committed to improving trade between the United States and Turkey.
News and Journals
Turkey's English mainstream, secular daily newspaper.
Newspaper close to the ruling Justice & Development Party (AKP).
Focuses mainly on Turkish foreign policy, economy and politics. Published by leading Turkish think tank International Strategic Research Organization.
Statistics and Government Resources
Republic of Turkey: TurkStat: Turkish Statistical Institute
Turkish Embassy (Washington, DC)
For English, click on the link in the upper right corner. Information about business and investment in Turkey. Also contains information about flora and fauna, education, travel and tourism, visas, immigration, history, geography, people and culture.
Last updated on January 6, 2011 by Steven L. Sowell
