Turkey hit by grim growth data

Article reports that Turkey aims to close a financing deal with the International Monetary Fund at the start of January 2009, the Turkish government confirmed on the 15 January 2008 as the weakest quarterly growth in six years prompted analysts to forecast a technical recession.

ESO: Background information: Turkey ‘set to sign IMF accord’ http://www.europeansources.info/record/turkey-set-to-sign-imf-accord/

International Monetary Fund: Country information: Turkey and the IMF http://www.imf.org/external/country/TUR/index.htm

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