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| Museum, ancient site incomes rising |  | The income earned from museums and ancient sites around İzmir in 2011 increased by 41.64 percent over 2010, according to İzmir Culture and Tourism Directorate data. |
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| | | Turkish firm feels the heat in Iran |  Gübretaş is taking measures in terms of both exports routes and operations to avoid being affected by the sanctions on Iran, says Gübretas’ new CEO | | | Gov’t to establish credit history system to prevent bad checks | | The government plans to establish a credit history system, which will provide the credit rating of a check writer, in order to prevent the passing of bad checks and calm the reactions of businessmen to the recent “bad check” law, which does away with prison time for bad-check writers. | | | CB intervention likely as TL beats back US dollar |  A current appreciation of the Turkish lira against an ever-gaining US dollar might propel the Central Bank of Turkey to repeat proactive measures of the past to intervene in the markets, observers argued to Today’s Zaman on Thursday. | | | | | | German firm to produce solar electricity in Turkey | | One of the world’s leading solar energy firms, Gehrlicher Solar AG of Germany, and Merk Solar Energy from Turkey, which operates under the Akfel Group, announced on Wednesday the establishment of Gehrlicher Merk Solar Energy to produce electricity using Turkey’s vast solar power potential. | | | Industry-led exports surge 10 pct to $10.5 bln in January | | Triggered by ever-increasing industrial activity, Turkish exports marked an encouraging beginning to 2012 with a 10 percent increase in January compared to the first month of a year before, amounting to $10.5 billion, according to the latest export figures. | |
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| Euro-Turkish entrepreneurs briefed on investing in Baltics | | A group of Turkish entrepreneurs based in Belgium and elsewhere in Europe have come together in Brussels with their counterparts as well as diplomats and trade representatives from the Baltic states to discuss trade and investment opportunities in the region. | | | Saudi Oger says keeping shares in Türk Telekom | | Riyadh-based Saudi Oger, which owns a controlling stake in Turkey′s giant telecommunications company Türk Telekom, denied on Tuesday reports saying Qatar offered to buy shares in its subsidiary Oger Telecom. | | | | | | Turkey takes Iran to arbitration over gas price | | Turkey has taken Iran to international arbitration over the price paid for gas imports, Turkish energy officials said on Tuesday, after Tehran rejected Ankara′s complaint that the price was too high. | | | | | | Turkey, Turkmenistan to use domestic currencies in bilateral trade | | Turkish Economy Minister Zafer Çağlayan and Turkmen President Gurbanguli Berdymukhamedov signed an agreement Monday to use domestic currencies as opposed to major trading currencies such as the euro or dollar in bilateral trade, which has seen an exceptional increase between the two countries. | | | ‘Saudis could substitute for Iran in crude to TÜPRAŞ’ | | The world′s number-one oil producer Saudi Arabia could step in for Iran in the case of a possible decline in oil supply from this country to Turkey′s largest oil refiner, the Turkish Petroleum Refineries Corporation (TÜPRAŞ), the Financial Times (FT) reported on Monday | | | Tourism revenue grew by one-tenth to $23 billion last year | | Turkey earned 10.6 percent more revenue from tourists visiting the country last year compared to a year earlier, its official statistics bureau said on Monday. According to the Turkish Statistics Institute (TurkStat), the country′s tourism revenue was at $23 billion in 2011, up from $20.8 billion two years ago. It also said more than 36 million foreign nationals visited Turkey last year. The same figure was 33 million in 2010. The official data suggest that each foreign visitor spent $637 on ave | | | | Turkish leaders grow more self confident at Davos talks | | There are many descriptions used for Turkish political and bureaucratic leaders, and not everybody agrees on each and every one of them; yet, there is one that should grow more popular among observers of Turkish policy-making these days: They are becoming more self confident when they get a chance to talk to their counterparts from around the world, particularly from the United States and the European Union in the current framework of economic difficulties. | |
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