İ never understood the gun laws in Turkey. The right to carry a handgun is nearly impossible, but on the other hand getting a shotgun permit is like going to a candy store.
The same easieness can be said about sniper rifles (although a VERY expensive hobby).
İ also red somewhere that the western companies agreed to TOT to some extent for a higher price.
İf you ask me, the choice for a Chinese system was given, so it could be usefull as a leverage with the negotiatons of aster and patriot.
@Al-Kurdi , Turkey has long forsaken the policy of seeing any Kurdish entity as a threat.
It has always been friendly towards krg and the truth is that that approach has been quite fruitfully. Barzani has proven himself as quite a asset to Turkey.
And if you ask my personal opinion, Kurdish...
Yeah, this we came first, it's ours policy starts to really piss me of. İf this policy is the way to go, then the handfull of Assyrians and Armenians in that are present there, have the right to dominate that area.
Yeah good old days. You know what's funny they would give a loan to buy a car to a asgari ücret li, but they wouldn't give me one dime :(. I have taken 3 loans on the name of my relatives. One was already paying 1400 tl a month to his mortgage, yet he still managed to get a car loan of 800 tl :)
South Korea has a surplus because their products are high in demand and high in value.
Turkey has mid valued goods. Export grows but it can not keep up with imports. The imports were fueled by foreign cash flow into Turkey, easy access to loans and low interest rates. Because of this Turks have...
Decreasing the trade deficit does have its drawbacks.
There are two ways to decrease it, decreasing imports or increasing export. Turkey is currently doing both of this.
A expensive dollar, increasing of the interest rates by the Central Bank, hardening the criteria for consumers loans and...
Turkey's growth above expectation at 4% from end '13
Turkey´s economy grew above expectation at 4 percent annually in last quarter of 2013.
Turkey’s economy continued on its growth path for the 17th consecutive quarter, expanding by 4.4 percent in the October-December period of 2013...