🗂️ Türkiye Economy & Business News Index 2026: January–8 October
📅 Coverage: news published from 1 January to 8 October 2026. October is covered only up to the 8th. These are selected, sourced economy and business reports, rather than a record of every development in Türkiye or a review of the...
🗓️ Türkiye Economy & Business News: September 2026
September brought an interest rate decision, changes to liquidity tools, a government medium-term programme and releases on growth, trade, prices and the budget. There were also company listings, an airport expansion that entered service and a...
🗓️ Türkiye Economy & Business News: August 2026
August brought news of company financing, revised central bank forecasts, trade, prices and the budget, alongside developments in air transport and free zones. This roundup covers thirteen documented economic developments, ordered by the date of...
🗓️ Türkiye Economy & Business News: July 2026
July brought monetary policy decisions, first-half data, airport operating figures and stock-market listings in concrete, energy and steel. This roundup covers fourteen documented developments, ordered by the date of the announcement or published...
📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: June 2026
June brought news on trade, prices and monetary policy, industrial contracts and air traffic, progress at Akkuyu, and changes to the stock exchange's indices and technical infrastructure. This roundup covers thirteen developments announced during the...
📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: May 2026
May brought the publication of April statistics, revised central-bank projections, first-quarter company results and changes to credit and market frameworks. Preliminary figures showed an increase in April exports, a new inflation reading became...
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📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: April 2026
April brought together developments in finance, trade and energy as companies began reporting their first-quarter results. The central bank kept its policy rate unchanged, while trade figures showed a decline in March exports and an increase in...
📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: March 2026
📅 News period: 1–31 March 2026. Original review date: 8 October 2026.
March brought together the results for 2025 and the first readings of economic activity in the new year. Releases covered GDP, trade, prices, industry, retail sales, public...
📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: February 2026
📅 News period: 1–28 February 2026. Original review date: 8 October 2026.
February brought trade, price, budget and current-account releases, alongside the Inflation Report and changes to price measurement and the assessment of household...
📰 Türkiye Economy & Business News: January 2026
📅 News period: 1–31 January 2026. Original review date: 8 October 2026.
This round-up brings together economic and business news released in January 2026: trade, prices, industry, consumer spending, public finances and the external sector...
🛒 Sales and Turnover in Türkiye: Separating Price Increases from Activity Growth in 2026
A shop may report higher sales while selling fewer items. There is no contradiction: sales value depends on prices, quantities and the mix of products. The problem arises when a rise in money received...
🔄 Why Does an Economic Figure Change After Publication?
You might save a report of production growth, return to the official table a month later, and find a different rate for the same period. Two headlines may even report growth and decline for the same month because one uses unadjusted data...
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Economic Indicators
Data Revisions
🏭 Producer Prices Are Not the Consumer’s Bill
Turkish economic reports frequently mention rising producer prices, then interpret the figure directly as an expected increase in shop prices. The relationship deserves attention, but the transmission is not automatic. A product’s factory-gate price...
🧾 Reading Turkish Inflation Starts with the Right Question
A report may say annual inflation slowed, yet a visit to the shops reveals prices above last month’s. There is no necessary arithmetic contradiction: the first comparison is with a year earlier, while your experience compares prices...
📈 Reading Türkiye’s Economic Growth: Real and Nominal GDP and Sectors in 2026
When a report says the Turkish economy grew, first ask what increased: the value of production in lira, or the volume of goods and services after allowing for price changes? Is the comparison with the preceding...
1️⃣ What happened in February 2026?
On 12 February 2026, the Central Bank of the Republic of Türkiye (TCMB/CBRT) presented Inflation Report 2026-I at a briefing in İstanbul. It updated the bank's official inflation forecasts and discussion of the monetary-policy path. This is a historical...