Turkey faces big losses as Russia sanctions bite

[-SINAN-]

Lmao, turkey is being hit hard, I'm truly amazed that our turkish brothers in this forum have spare cash to pay for electricity bills.

We are not the ones who has to pay $6 dollars for a tomato....The thing is fruit and vegetable prices are already low in Turkey (1/20 of Russia). I thought that prices will go even lower but it didn't happened..seems like exports to Russia being diverted other countries. I heard that now we are exporting to Azerbaijan and Russia is importing from Azerbaijan by passing sanctions.

Only thing differed in the prices is gas prices as it continues to goes down. No significant change in prices and in our lives.

On top of it government raised minumum wage by %30 in this month.. People's purchasing power have increased.

And Turkish GDP growth was %4 in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Russian sanctions has no effect on our economy. It effects only their citizens.

 

[TurAr]

Russia is avenging its dead pilot by killing Turkish oranges.

What a joke the mighty Russia has become...

 

[xenon54 out]

Russia is avenging its dead pilot by killing Turkish oranges.

No nukes? Some people must be disappointed by now.

 

[Brutas]

Russia Preps to Arm Serbia

Russia ready to arm Balkan ally Serbia - Yahoo News

Time for Turks to expand in the Balkans to counter Russian vassalage of the Balkans.

 

[Azeri440]

Russia is avenging its dead pilot by killing Turkish oranges.

What a joke the mighty Russia has become...

at least they moved up from tomato sanctions

We are not the ones who has to pay $6 dollars for a tomato....The thing is fruit and vegetable prices are already low in Turkey (1/20 of Russia). I thought that prices will go even lower but it didn't happened..seems like exports to Russia being diverted other countries. I heard that now we are exporting to Azerbaijan and Russia is importing from Azerbaijan by passing sanctions.

Only thing differed in the prices is gas prices as it continues to goes down. No significant change in prices and in our lives.

On top of it government raised minumum wage by %30 in this month.. People's purchasing power have increased.

And Turkish GDP growth was %4 in the fourth quarter of 2015.

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Russian sanctions has no effect on our economy. It effects only their citizens.

yep , the minimum wage in Turkey is now higher than average wage in Russia.

 

[Orakzai]

at last its people arwnnot barbarians with no native culture except Islamic Arab culture

and yes we are not land stealers or fake oelr wannabe central Asians

FYI Russo people are coming here because they like our culture. its not barrier

what, you meant Russians are visiting india to experiance this??

 

[Oldman1]

Vladimir Putin acknowledges Western economic sanctions over Ukraine are ‘severely hurting Russia’ | South China Morning Post

Vladimir Putin acknowledges Western economic sanctions over Ukraine are ‘severely hurting Russia’

President Vladimir Putin acknowledged on Monday in an interview with German daily Bild that Western economic sanctions over the Ukraine crisis are affecting Russia.

“Concerning our possibilities on the international financial markets, the sanctions are severely harming Russia,” he said in a long interview, calling the EU sanctions “a theatre of the absurd”.

Moscow has been hit by US and European sanctions over the conflict between pro-Russian separatists and Ukrainian forces which has claimed more than 9,000 lives since April 2014.

In late December, the EU extended its sanctions by six months, arguing that the Minsk peace agreement signed by Moscow has not been fully implemented.

Putin said, however, that “the biggest harm is currently caused by the decline of the prices for energy,” according to an English-language transcript published by Bild online.

“We suffer dangerous revenue losses in our export of oil and gas, which we can partly compensate for elsewhere,” he said. “But the whole thing also has a positive side: if you earn so many petrodollars – as we once did – that you can buy anything abroad, this slows down developments in your own country.”

 

[Tshering22]

It pains me to see Turkey's political disruptions.

Having extensively traveled there for quite some time, the most rational, approachable and practical country in the entire Middle East. People are smart, warm-hearted and welcoming, governance is strong and the country has all the ingredients to become an influential and rational global power.

Erdogan's U-turns in the international arena are only harming his beautiful country.

I doubt many Russians will go India. It's no way near a rival to us. It's dirty, polluted, the culture is much much much different. Spain, Greece, Egypt to an extent before the aircraft attack, maybe morroco will the destinations Russians go. Actually Bulgaria too.

Actually, there is an increase in Russian tourists in the last two months and this may or may not be related to the incident between you and them. No one has researched this development yet so we cannot tell.

Don't use Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bengaluru etc top cities as cleanliness benchmark. Try Gangtok, Chandigarh, Pondicherry, Mysore, Vijaywada, entire Gujarat state etc. If you get time, visit the Himalayan states of our country, particularly in our northeast region. You'll find that they are cleaner than many European cities with similar population levels.

The point is not about rivalry but about stability as a destination. You have a strong and stable setup but political situation caused this deviation.

Egypt and adjoining countries were shut out due to the shooting of the Russian airliner where 216 people died a painful death.

Morocco is possible but it is not a very diverse landscape. It has its own appeal but in pure variety terms, nothing comes close to us.