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🏭 Industrial Production and Capacity Utilisation in Türkiye: Reading Factory Activity in 2026 A report of “rising factory output” differs from one of “rising capacity utilisation”. The first concerns industrial production volumes; the second concerns how much physical production capacity is...

🔄 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...

🏭 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...