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Ümit Hergüner, Managing Partner, Hergüner Bilgen Özeke, on the new Turkish Commercial Code (TCC) and the liability of board members and management in Turkish corporate governance
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In corporate management, as in other aspects of life, the simplest way to promote responsible behaviour is to ensure accountability. The new TCC, in its overhaul of the commercial landscape, will initiate serious changes towards facilitating good corporate governance. It will introduce a legal regime that will require clarity in the assignment of duties among corporate management teams and…
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Anthony Wilson, Partner in Charge, Deloitte Turkey, on the potential for deal volumes in Turkey to rise
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Over the course of 2011, Turkey saw a significant increase in deal transactions, both numerically and in terms of volume, and the outlook for the remainder of 2012 is very positive indeed. Some 74% of the deals in 2011, by value, involved foreign investors, representing a significant recovery from 2010, when only 36% of deals involved an international firm. The total deal value in 2010 was…
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Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on the government’s new investment incentives programme
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Turkey is in a unique economic position and is significantly more prosperous than it was a decade ago. This is due, in large part, to our party’s efforts to create a reliable, stable and predictable political and economic environment. Since late 2002 – except during the peak of the recent global financial crisis in 2009 – the Turkish economy has been in constant development, and today,…
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Joe Biden, US Vice-President, on the importance of entrepreneurship
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The US and Turkey have been NATO allies since 1952, and our economic and military relationships are flourishing. Trade between the two countries grew by 45% in 2011 alone, to the benefit of both the American and the Turkish people. In June of 2009 President Barack Obama announced our intent to deepen ties between American entrepreneurs and their counterparts from countries around the world…
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lhami Koç, General Manager, İş Investment, on corporate governance
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The corporate scandals in global markets over recent years and institutional investors’ power to lead companies have made corporate governance principles a substantial and noteworthy investment criteria. This is especially true for developing countries, due to concerns over distinguishing the company’s ownership and management, independent functioning and the exercise of rights for the…
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Erdem Başçı, Governor, Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey (CBRT), on measures to preserve financial stability
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The expansionary monetary policies which were adopted by central banks of developed countries to contain the impact of the global financial crisis had significant reverberations on developing economies. The Turkish economy was no exception in this regard. During this period, the availability of ample low-cost and short-term foreign financing led to rapid credit expansion and an appreciation…
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Jim O’Neill, Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asset Management, on Turkey and the Next 11
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Many years ago, Goldman Sachs studied the growth prospects of a number of economies which we felt had the potential to become as big as the so-called BRICs (Brazil, Russia, India and China) in the future. We examined all those nations that had populations just below their BRIC counterparts – the next-largest countries, in terms of number of people – because the key features determining…
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Anthony Khoi, President and CEO, Aerium Turkey, on the future of investment in retail real estate
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Turkey is the 16th-largest economy in the world and sixth-largest in Europe, and has made impressive progress over the past decade – a fact well demonstrated by the figures. While European countries have struggled with a number of economic problems and the sovereign debt crisis, Turkey has reached a per capita GDP of $10,444, up from $5764 in 2004. Average consumer price index was at 71.6%…
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The Report: Turkey 2012: The Guide
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Turkey is a vast country with many things to see and do. The Guide contains highlights of some of the nation’s key attractions, as well as insights for new arrivals. Also contained in the guide are important phone numbers and hotel listings. The chapter also includes a feature article about the arts in Istanbul, with Bülent Eczacıbaşı, the Chairman of Eczacıbaşı Group and the Istanbul Foundation…