Thursday, December 15, 2011

More pussycat than tiger, but Turkey has bite - FT.com

More pussycat than tiger, but Turkey has bite

By Daniel Dombey in Istanbul
Grand Bazaar, Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey

Spend any significant amount of time in Istanbul or Ankara and you will hear plenty of references to Turkey’s powerhouse economic growth, which figures this week put at 8.2 per cent, capping a decade of big advances in living standards.

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