Is TURKEY 16th Economy of the World?

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hello

i dont care about those numbers if an injured person waiting for ambulance 2 hours and bleeding to death in Turkey. i dont care about those numbers if you finished 2 universities and still can't get a proper job . stop writing bshit.

JASON BOURNE Aegean Janissary

Turkey has never been a underveloped country.
We don't belong to the Third World.

We had and we still have some important problems, especially on our commercial balance. We still have a too big percentage of agriculture in our economy, and there is a lack of technology innovations (while countries such as India is developing his strength in computers or pharmaceutical sectors).
Another problem that we have is the fact that many companies are "underground", and they don't even pay taxes. Many workers also are not even declared to administrations.
We do have a dynamic shares and stock exchange force, with a 10% up each year
We still have many things to do, in order to develop our economy, in order to eliminate the unemployment...

Actually, our country has an economy which looks like Mexico, Colombia or Brasil's economies :
-Agriculture has a too large part
- We focalize too much on tourism
- A lack of transparency concerning the ties between politicians and maffia
-Too much corruption
-There is not a very numerous middle-class
-Enormous inequalites between the poor and the rich people..

Of course we are stronger and richer than many countries in the world, even than some countries which belong to European Union. And not only we are a model for other muslim countries, but also for the former-communist east-european countries ( that's why Romanians or Ukrainian accept to work in Turkey when Western european countries refuse to give them working visa ) But we still have to improve ourselves and get stronger. Our brains,our engineers ,our scientists prefer always to work in the USA or in Europe...Even in the american NASA and in the french CNRS there are turkish engineers, but they only help foreign countries ( these foreign countries get brevets,and we don't). In IBM, Microsoft,Mercedez,Porsche ,Renault, etc, there are also some turkish computer engineers and turkish mechanical engineers, but we Turks don't get any benefit from that...
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What is the legal minimum salary in Turkey? About 200 or 300 euros per month, is that right ?
Of course, it's better than the salaries in Africa,Armenia or China ( less than 100 euros per month ).
But in Western Europe and USA, it's 1000 euros minimum.

So I don't think that we are the 16th Economy of the World...
Above us, there are certainly USA, Canada,Germany, France, UK, Australia ,Japon ,Italia,Spain ,Danmark,Norway, Sweden,Switzerland,,South Korea, South Africa, New Zeland,Netherlands,Greece, Israel...And I think that Brasil is probably richer than us too...And we have to count also the Emirates,Dubai,etc...

So it doesn't matter how many billionaires there are in Turkey...I don't care... I prefer that every Turk gets a good standart of living, a good job, that every Turk can be home owner, that we can have good hospitals,good universities, a safe country ( nor terrorists,no maffia, no robbers...)...

Totally Blunt

The numbers are probably right. Turkey has not been an "underdeveloped" country, it has been in the league of "developing" ones for a long time. As for the rest of the Muslim world, if you donot seperate religious issues from the "wordly" ones, religion will come back haunting economics eventually. One example: Iran banned Turkish textile companies from fashion shows in Iran, because, they said, the catalogues had "immoral" pictures in them, meaning they had women's pictures with clothing on. Can Vatican ban fashion shows in Italy? Exactly.

sultan.murat

The figures are correct but they donÂ´t represent TurkeyÂ´s position clearly. Turkey is not underdeveloped but what do you call underdeveloped? The US has a national debt of nearly 800 trillion dollars and % 30 of the country lives under the level of poverty.
Turkey as opposed to that has a national debt of 80 billion dollars and % 35 of her citizens live under the level of poverty.
To be a good example for the rest of the Muslim World there must be other criteria.
In terms of economical figures in relation to its size and potential yes Turkey would make a good example for the rest of the Islamic World, provided that it sticks to its current course.

Frank B

Hi,

I think Turkish economy is big in terms of their annual turn over and these numbers reflect the large population of the country. They mean little about the strength or quality of the economy itself. If so, Switzerland is then really poor! The truth is that the Turkish economy is not really doing that great and it is of very high risk for foreign investments. For instance, from the CIA world fact book (https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/tu.html) one can see that on average a Turk earns ~$9,000/year as compared to an average Greek that earns $24,000/year or a Dutch that earns $32,100...So I would rather remain skeptical about these figures...Even more, I think that the high ranking of Turkey as a military power does not equal development. Not when Turkey is not the one that develops the artillery, the weapons and the associated technology by employing Turkish scientists and companies. In case of Turkey, it actually means huge depths for the future generations (a new form of slavery) and money being spend in guns instead of research, development and education. It means poverty.

Still Turkey is the most developed country in the Muslim world and that tells a lot. But still not much to the developed world.

habisce

To be honest the numbers you supplied are wrong.Turkey is the 17th largest economy.However,those numbers are Turkey's expectations for five years afterwards.

ephesusjazz

altough those number may tend to give some clues about the turkey's position,i dont think that the situation is not that bright all over turkey...what more important is the mentality of the citizens actually...i mean just google for the avarage number of books read by a turk in a whole year(it was under 1)..or the money that we spread to cigars...we didnt accomplish the agricultural revolution and i am not even talking about the industrial revolution...the ecenomy may be terrible or god blessed...but the difference lays in the mentality...and about the military..as far as i know the french and the british army is a lot bette than the turkish...i think turkish army is second in the NATO as quantity not as quality....and hell yea turkey can be an example for the rest of the muslim world...

Kimon

These are great numbers.

I am sure that people in the slums in Instabul and in the hovels in SE Turkey are really impressed.

Smarten up... these are numbers for internal consumption. Take a hard look around you and tell me if you like what you see...

tramp

but you are forgetting we are 70 million people here and about military we have qualified soldiers but we dont have nuclear bombs so we are more open to attackes than France or even Israel and for so many years we are dealing with many terrorist groups like PKK,ASALA,EL KAIDE and yes TÃ¼rkiye is full of young people but ''not educated young people'' and i dont believe we are a growing market, just pop is growing so is the big supermarkets' balance accounts.
TÃ¼rkiye needs a real revolution in the minds

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