Based on its outward-oriented development strategy, respectable growth, increased integration into world trade and financial markets, and imperfect though vibrant and wide-based democracy, Turkey is often cited as a development model for other countries in the region and elsewhere. Countering...

"Turkey has had a crucial change in terms of economic infrastructure after the decision of opening up the economy in 1980. Following import substituting industrialization strategy ended with an economic crisis at the end of the 1970s. With the beginning of the 1980s in January, a very radical...