Ahmedinejad in Turkey for summit BBC News | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Istanbul for a one-day Islamic summit as pressure mounts on Tehran to agree to a UN-brokered plan on its nuclear programme. | Iran's president is among the speakers at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference, a 57-state bloc. | Presidents Bashar Assad of S...
Economic meltdown: Not just recovery but reparation Business Day Online | Obviously, the global economic nightmare is receding gradually, giving rise to genuine manifestations of the green-shoots of recovery sighted earlier in June. |  This is at least so for countries that knew when it started, took extraordinary measures to combat it and are capable of reasonably as...
Ahmedinejad in Turkey for summit BBC News | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is in Istanbul for a one-day Islamic summit as pressure mounts on Tehran to agree to a UN-brokered plan on its nuclear programme. | Iran's president is among the speakers at a meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conferenc...
Economic meltdown: Not just recovery but reparation Business Day Online | Obviously, the global economic nightmare is receding gradually, giving rise to genuine manifestations of the green-shoots of recovery sighted earlier in June. |  This is at least so for countries that knew when it started, took extraordinary meas...
Ran Lojistik of Turkey to hold IPO next week The Guardian ISTANBUL, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Ran Lojistik, a Turkish transport company, said on Thursday it will hold an initial public offering on the Istanbul Stock Exchange next week, one of the few sales planned for this year amid the economic slowdown. Ran will...
Economic notes from Istanbul Business Day Online | If the choice of Istanbul was not deliberate for last week’s annual  meeting of the governors of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it became rational at the end of it. Never mind that the rationality of economic decisio...
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IMF eyes currency reserves as its power expands Khaleej Times ISTANBUL - The International Monetary Fund is honing in on problems posed by huge currency stockpiles in exporting nations as it takes up the baton of a global governor charged wit...
IMF, Iraq aim for loan deal in 'coming weeks'-IMF The Guardian (Adds quotes, details) ISTANBUL, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Talks between the International Monetary Fund and Iraq on an IMF-funded loan programme were making progress and the sides are aim...
IMF seeks more powers to monitor global economy Syracuse | (AP) - ISTANBUL - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that it needs greater powers to anticipate and handle any future economic crisis, even as protesters facing police ...
IMF, Iraq aim for loan deal in 'coming weeks'-IMF The Guardian (Adds quotes, details) ISTANBUL, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Talks between the International Monetary Fund and Iraq on an IMF-funded loan programme were making progress and the sides are aiming to reach an agreement "in coming weeks," an IMF spokeswoman said o...
IMF seeks more powers to monitor global economy Syracuse | (AP) - ISTANBUL - The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that it needs greater powers to anticipate and handle any future economic crisis, even as protesters facing police water cannons and tear gas claimed the fund was merely helping rich co...
United States Calls for Rigorous IMF Surveillance ABC News October 6, 2009 | ISTANBUL (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on Tuesday called on the International Monetary Fund to provide rigorous surveillance to spot new investment bubbles and keep country foreign exchange policies in line wi...
Turkey Seeks Kurdish Reconciliation Wall Street Journal By NICHOLAS BIRCH | ANKARA -- Turkey's government laid out long-awaited plans Friday to reconcile with the country's large Kurdish minority and end a separatist war that has cost tens of thousands of lives, prompting the main opposition party to storm out of parliament in protest. | The heated debate was symbolic of the sensitivities of the Kurdish...
Turkey-Israel: Tensions on the Horizon Khaleej Times Anyone who might have entertained doubts regarding the urgency needed in resolving the Middle East crisis need only look at the changing trends in Turkish foreign policy vis-à-vis Israel. | Long considered as a moderate force in the region, post-Ottoman Turkey, much to the dismay of many Turks today, is gradually falling more and more into the camp...
