The Turkish Economy

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This paper discusses the economic weaknesses of modern Turkey as well as the political strife between Islamic Arabs and non-Islamic Arabs. The author provides the country's current demographic situation and looks at the problems of the economy in relation to the population rates. The paper also examines Turkey's shift from central planning to a market economy and other economic reforms implemented by the government.

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"Before beginning to look specifically at the nature of the country's current economic problems, it will be useful to provide the briefest sketch of its current cultural and political structures. Ironically, many of Turkey's current political and even cultural problems " which feed into and in many cases worsen its economic problems " are actually the result of genuine constitutional reforms made two generations ago.

"While we in the West like to think that constitutional reform that results in a more genuinely representational government must be a good thing, in fact in the case of Turkey such reform had unintended but still deeply troubling consequences. The constitutional reforms that went into effect in 1961 produced a system of electoral policy and governance that made it difficult (and in actual practice nearly impossible) for any one political party to gain the majority needed to enact effective legislation."

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