Economic and business developments read for their effect on cost, cash and pricing decisions.
Turkey has amended its commercial advertising regulation to require labelling of AI-generated digital characters, bring influencer promotion firmly under disclosure rules and place "dark patterns" under enforcement. Coverage framed it as a…
Yazının devamı →What makes the second half of 2026 difficult for businesses trading with Turkey is not one development but three walls rising at once, alongside demand reshaping itself from within. Customs thresholds have…
Yazının devamı →Since 1 July 2026 the European Union has applied a flat three-euro customs duty to e-commerce parcels valued up to 150 euros. The figure sounds trivial, which is precisely why it is…
Yazının devamı →Migros, one of Turkey's largest grocery retailers, has launched an AI shopping assistant built with OpenAI and become the first food retailer to integrate directly into ChatGPT. Read as a technology announcement…
Yazının devamı →Turkish agricultural producer prices rose 2.31 per cent monthly and 18.81 per cent annually in July. The headline sits below general inflation expectations and reads as reassuring. The subcategory tells a different…
Yazının devamı →Turkish consumers are now making purchase decisions from other buyers' reviews rather than from advertising. In a study conducted by NielsenIQ for the Turkish furniture federation, user reviews and videos emerged as…
Yazının devamı →Net new yuan loans in China contracted by 340 billion yuan in July — the sharpest decline on record. The market had expected a net increase of 45 billion. The gap is…
Yazının devamı →Six separate developments this period say the same sentence: capability you cannot evidence is disregarded. Banks now read ledgers rather than statements. Regulators require claims to be labelled. Shopping assistants do not…
Yazının devamı →Extreme heat and drought could reduce EU output by around 1 per cent in 2026 — roughly 180 billion euros — against a European Commission growth forecast of 1.1 per cent. In…
Yazının devamı →The number of salaried employees in Turkey rose 2.5 per cent year on year in June to 16.33 million — around 402,000 additional workers. The headline conceals a sectoral split: industrial employment…
Yazının devamı →Turkey's central bank survey for August put year-end inflation expectations at 29.43 per cent and the year-end dollar rate at 51.66 lira. The more informative figure is not in the headline: the…
Yazının devamı →Turkish exports rose 3.6 per cent in the first half of 2026 to 136.06 billion dollars, with 50 provinces recording increases and 21 exceeding one billion dollars. The headline figure is modest.…
Yazının devamı →Deneyiminizi iyileştirmek için çerezler kullanıyoruz. Analitik ve pazarlama çerezleri yalnızca onayınızla çalışır. Çerez politikası