
A large, young, industrially capable economy repeatedly undone by unorthodox monetary policy, currency crises and political interference in the central bank; the English-language business literature is thin and mostly political.
The standard history; the state-business relationship runs through it.
Turkey caught between two worlds, its politics up to the 2001 bank crisis.
Academic account of the post-2001 reform programme and its unwinding.
How Turkey's institutions, media and business were reorganised under AKP rule.
How Erdogan's consolidation reshaped who wins contracts.
Reporting on the construction-and-credit growth model and who benefited.
Erdogan's drive to make Turkey a great power, and its cost to the lira and budget.
Why Muslim-majority countries lag: an old alliance of clerics and military states.
Data on how Turkey's procurement law was amended to steer state contracts.