Turkey
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.
9 books
Start here
- Crescent and StarStephen Kinzer, 2001
- The New SultanSoner Cagaptay, 2017
- Turkey and the Global EconomyZiya Onis, Fikret Senses, 2009
Books 9
Erik J. Zurcher · 1993 · The standard history; the state-business relationship runs through it.
Stephen Kinzer · 2001 · Written around the 2001 banking crisis, the last full reset of the system.
Ziya Onis, Fikret Senses · 2009 · Academic account of the post-2001 reform programme and its unwinding.
Simon Waldman, Emre Caliskan · 2016 · How institutions, media and business were reorganised under AKP rule.
Soner Cagaptay · 2017 · How Erdogan's consolidation reshaped who wins contracts.
Hannah Lucinda Smith · 2019 · Reporting on the construction-and-credit growth model and who benefited.
Soner Cagaptay · 2019 · Foreign policy ambition and its cost to the currency and the budget.
Ahmet T. Kuru · 2019 · A structural argument about why Muslim-majority economies underperform.
Esra Ceviker Gurakar · 2016 · Data on how procurement law was amended to steer contracts.