The Turkish economy   The economy is not a big election issue,
but it badly needs cooling down  See article  Readers' comments
Fahrettin Tahir   Greece is ahomogenous country with a stagnant
population and economy. She is subsidised to the tune of
hundreds of billion dollars by the European Union. Under those
conditions she has been stable since 1974. Do not forget the
civil war of the 1940ies and the dictatorship of the 1970ies.
Turkey has a highly heterogenous population, who come not only
from all countries of the Ottoman empire on three continents but
also refugees from many countries beginning with Spain in the
West and Manchuria in the east.  Some live in the 21st century
other are barely out of the stone age.  The population has
tripled in 50 years. She is undergoing a dramatic and rapid
industrialisation process.  Her allies have supported a thousand
billion expensive dollar civil war in an attempt to stop her
economy. Now they support the AKP which American diplomats
(wikileaks) think does not und