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I was in Turkey during that time, it was noy better for the bast majority of people. Turkey had a per capita gdp <$3k and i vividly recall seeing shoeless peopl
by LateRuin 9y ago
I was in Turkey during that time, it was noy better for the bast majority of people. Turkey had a per capita gdp <$3k and i vividly recall seeing shoeless people even in the wealthiest areas of Istanbul. Totally changed today, Turkey is richer (per capita) than many EU member states.
- anvandare 9y ago>Turkey is richer (per capita) than many EU member states. To be precise: than 2 of them, Bulgaria and Romania. Out of the 28. https://www.google.de/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&hl=en&dl=en#!ctype=l&strail=false&bcs=d&nselm=h&met_y=ny_gdp_pcap_cd&scale_y=lin&ind_y=false&rdim=region&idim=country:TUR:BEL:AUT:BGR:HRV:CYP:CZE:EST:DNK:FIN:FRA:DEU:GRC:HUN:ISL:IRL:ITA:LVA:LTU:LUX:NLD:NOR:POL:PRT:ROU:SVN:SVK:ESP:SWE:GBR&ifdim=region&hl=en_US&dl=en&ind=false https://www.google.de/publicdata/explore?ds=d5bncppjof8f9_&m...
- positivecomment 9y agoThe funny thing is, many people there believe that Turkey is one of the most advanced economies. The propaganda machine is amazingly successful. The person you are replying to has access to all the information to see how wrong those arguments are, yet simply ignores everything. I said funny but I mean more like a tragicomedy.
- saiya-jin 9y agoGrowth like this happened globally. Politicians would have to be utterly incompetent or plainly steal 100% of any state income to not see this manifested in big jumps of prosperity of common people. You know what brought the growth? Private sector coming in.