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(i) Exports: Renault exported at 50% of cost, in order to get permits for importing raw materials. So they have to keep home sales up at high prices in order to cover losses on export.
[A form of indirect taxation on home consumption]
Local steel and other materials 3 times world price
Turkish industry MUST export. Can only do so by increasing efficiency.
With oil and ....{?} imports down, costs up; foreign exchange switched to oil.
Thatcherite?
Aydinoglu - an article in which Yalin attacked Aydinoglu, apparently Ecevitci, and until very recently Gov. of the Central Bank, who is said to favour a return to import substitution. Challenged †zal's policies.
(ii) "Culture" Mediterraneanic, Europeanic.
A lot of ideology about introverts, what is to. become of Turkey? Anti-Islam.
(iii) Is there a US plot to cause a rift between Europe and Turkey and thus keep Turkey dependent on US? [Typical journalist witchcraft]
NA
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