TÜSİAD

TUSIAD President Simone Kaslowski. Photo: TUSIAD

"The independence of regulatory and supervisory institutions, the Central Bank in particular, should be unquestionable," Tuncay Ozilhan, president of the Advisory Council of TUSIAD said at a TUSIAD event.

The executive board chairman of the Turkish Industry and Business Association (TÜSİAD), Erol Bilecik, has drawn attention to slackness in Turkey's STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) system. "We expect that in 2013, employment will reach up to 34 million and 3.5 million of this will be STEM employments.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday took back control of the ruling party he founded, a step that gives the nation’s most powerful man additional authority to appoint loyalists to parliament lists and party posts across the nation.

At first sight it seems that Turkey has turned into a great play of political vaudeville theater. Most recently, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that he will chair Cabinet meetings after he was elected head of state. After a period of speculation, the president finally said the last word as usual and declared that he would chair a Cabinet meeting in the Presidential Palace on Jan. 19.