On January 1, the most stable government in a decade launched Turkey's most comprehensive programme of reforms to eliminate double-digit inflation and restructure banking, agriculture, and backward state-owned enterprises. Just a few weeks before, at the EU's Helsinki summit, Ankara won the status of full candidate for membership of the European Union...more

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