The welfare State remains expensive with a departure in retirement to

They inaugurate more a factory by day, as two years, but the "Anatolian Tigers", that were dubbed this emerging class of pious entrepreneurs in the centre of the Turkey, still "ate the lion." They have contributed to the second quarter of this year to the economic growth (10.2) in the world behind China, said Beijing Baran, Vice President of Tusiad, the Turkish counterpart of the Medef.

Now, this country of 77 million people is a tenor of the BTP and positions of television, the world's second largest flat glass, cement or textile sixth and the seventh largest trading partner of the Union to which he is a candidate since 1987 (read below). Beautiful lesson of dynamism on the part of a country which is also better meet the Maastricht criteria than most of the countries of the zone euro; public debt has been reduced to 40 of GDP. Since the serious financial crisis of 2001, the Turkey aligned consecutively six surpluses (before debt service) 6 of GDP. Today, the risk of default is lower than that of the Spain, according to the markets.

While economists from all sides recognize that macroeconomic discipline, entrepreneurs is touched to the image of Ekrem Yener, international Director of Turkcell, become one of the great Europeans of mobile telephony: "Recep Tayyip Erdogan's AKP cabinet is most favourable to the business of 63 Governments successor in the country" since the Atatürk revolution in 1923. Ekrem Yener is typical of this class of supportive entrepreneurs European opening and conservatism in terms of morals, competitive military and bureaucratic caste with regard to the country during 80 years and constitute the main opposition party, the CHP electoral base. Embodies the defence of secularism to an AKP suspected to promote the Islamization of Turkish society, but that seems more carefully income. Through the confrontation between the AKP, apparently assured of winning the legislative elections of June and which has just won largely a constitutional referendum, and a "ossified" even according to CHP of some supporters, are also two middle classes who compete. The first, close to the power and sitting on the trade and 2 millions of SMEs open to globalization, the second related to the distribution of rents behind protectionist barriers.

Very rigid labour market

So, the AKP pushed dust "under the rug", or rather "under the stairs", as sweatshops. The Government is not really attacked the grey economy, which would represent one-quarter of GDP. It is true that it allows to reduce the statistics of unemployment (about 10), Haluk Tükel, President of the Institute of the Bosphorus, created year last for "unblock" the political dialogue with the France. Ankara has not reformed a very rigid labour market or taxation for two-thirds of indirect taxes on the poor. The welfare State remains expensive, with a departure in retirement to... 50 years, and the glaring inequalities. To the extent that the country has 28 billionaires in dollars, more than the Japan, a member of the CHP, Gülsün Bilgehan rebelled. And especially, productivity remains low, said Seyfettin Gunsell, Professor of Economics at the University Bahçesehir. To combat inflation that once reached 1,000 (8 today), the independent Central Bank maintains muscular interest rates, this who doped the lira and penalises exporters, said Ersdal Karamercan, pattern the Eczacibasi conglomerate. Moreover, "investors come here for the internal market, not so much for export", underlines Seyfettin Gunsell, which is concerned in terms of the balance of payments deficit, of $ 40 billion. But the adaptive capacity of Turkish entrepreneurs, who have already crossed to countless crises, is impressive. They have already recreated the half of the million jobs lost since 2008.