In a speech praising the high economic growth in Turkey in 2010, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said "Greeks will start begging soon to survive."
Posted on 04/07/2012 9:08:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Bulent Arinc spoke at an inauguration ceremony at Urfa in Southeast Turkey: "In 2010 Turkish economy scored a 9% growth rate. This is an incredible result. Due to the global crisis countries in America and Europe are in debt, government changes occurred in Spain and Portugal. Salaries could not be paid, collective bargaining agreements are on hold, our neighbor Greece has national debt of one trillion dollars. They are in the brink of begging for money, all factories ceased production, they want to sell them but no one wants to buy. Turkey is among five countries in the World by reaching 9% growth late. This is the success of our people."
Mr. Arinc is currently Deputy Prime Minister and State Minister in Turkey (AKP) and known for his provocative comments on various issues. Several court cases were filed against him because of his remarks towards institutions as well as individuals. However, in Turkey there is full legal immunity for members of the parliament.
Turkey has declared 2010 economic growth rate as 8,9% recently. It was the country's first positive growth rate since 2007. Last year Turkey scored a -4,8%. Critics claim that this year's figure is manipulated to help the governing party at the incoming elections in June 12, 2011.
(Excerpt) Read more at eu.greekreporter.com ...
In a speech praising the high economic growth in Turkey in 2010, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bulent Arinc said "Greeks will start begging soon to survive."
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Erdogan is defending Al-Bashir because in his words, "No Muslim could perpetrate a genocide".
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The Turks know how to twist the knife with the Greeks.
Turkey......mighty tasty......mighty tasty.......
yeah they have a real fondness for Greeks, Assyrians and Armenians...
What are the specifics behind “high economic growth” in Turkey.
Further, itf they are not running a deficit, our idiot collectivist politicians need to ask them for advice on how to run a country.
Are they pre-welcoming back the Greeks into the Ottoman Empire?
They do.
They not only stab and twist the knife, they then LIFT it to add to the pain.
The two countries are old hands at this.
My husband and I visited Cyprus in 1982, not long after the Turks invaded. The country was split in two with the Turks taking the "better" part, that is the north, which was green, lush and prosperous.
One didn't have to be a rocket scientist to the SEE the difference between the two countries. The Cypriots had made the southern part LUSH, GREEN and prosperous. Right over the fence one saw that Turkey was brown, dry, dusty and dirty. They had managed, in a few short years, to turn their northern acquisition into UN-lush, UN-green and UN-prosperous.
In 2008 my now-deceased husband and I went to Turkey. MOST of Turkey is like north Cyprus, but a tad greener than 100 years ago. The people EAST of Istanbul and inland from the coasts lived (by choice, we were told) in caves. No rent on caves. Caves were also still used for storage.
Also the folks rode DONKEYS, no choice.
The P.R. on Turkey is great. If one is a tourist in Istanbul and STAYS with the tour, it's all wunnerful. We strayed from the tour and walked the streets. We were ignored and treated rudely when we weren't ignored.
Bottom line: the Turks themselves live in a VERY stratified society of have and have-nots, with with "haves" doing all the P.R.
I was glad we went. It was not the big deal I thought. One ex-girlfriend I dropped thought Turkey was FABULOUS. She was AWED by the museum emeralds that were the size of her fist. She couldn't get past that.
Mind you, there WAS a day I felt like that, but that day passed when I reached 30 years old. I did manage to grow up before I reached middle age. She didn't. Thus, ex-friend.
They were abetted by the USA which first used Turkey for American air bases. They were considered ABSOLUTELY essential is defending our USA against the USSR. Those air bases were the FIRST defense against USSR invasion and missiles.
The air force had air bases in Saudi Arabia from the late 70's or early 80's right up in the north, close to Kuwait. They were there to protect our interests in the petroleum oil fields in Saudi Arabia and the Persian Gulf. There are DOZENS and DOZENS of off-shore platforms in the gulf. The folks over there call it the ARABIAN Gulf.
Some countries, like Oman, are already out of oil but the Saudis have another 200 years of oil left AND they haven't even touched the Empty Quarter, The Rub' al Khali (Arabic: الربع الخالي). Copy and paste from the Internet
They trans-ship oil, and get US aid. Hey, maybe we could start that. All we need is to dump Obama.
“They trans-ship oil, and get US aid. Hey, maybe we could start that. All we need is to dump Obama.”
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Ha!
So their “record economic growth” is due largely to the idiotic, self-destrtuctive policies of the United States:
1) A refusal to harvest our own energy resources.
2) Insane deficit spending, including the provision of “foreign aid” to damn near the entire world.
Prohibiting private development is the only factor. Deficits vanish when the gubmint gets the hell off our backs, cuts taxes, and (occasionally) cuts spending. Reagan cut taxes and didn’t cut spending, and ushered in a 20+ year bull market in stocks and economic growth that get curtailed by the usual Demwit majority in Congress.
Apropos of nothing, the Second Amendment comes immediately after the First Amendment because some people are hard of hearing.
I recommend Spengler's view on that topic:
Recall Notice for the Turkish Model
It's nothing more than a bubble. Excerpt:
Encouraged by the central bank, Turkish banks increased their lending at a 40% annual rate in 2009 and 2010, financing a flood of imports. Turkey's trade deficit ballooned to a tenth of its total output - as bad as that of Greece or Portugal. And the country has been borrowing on short-term money markets to finance the import bubble.
Erdogan has the weirdest economic views of any serving head of government. He justified the credit bubble on religious grounds, pledging repeatedly to cut the "real" interest rate (the cost of interest minus the inflation rate) to zero.
When I was there in 2009 we cut their Foreign Military Financing (FMF) to zero. Although it would have been less aggravation and one tenth the work to just plug in the same ridiculously high numbers as in previous years, it was refreshing to see agreement in the end.
I gave you the information from an authoritative source. I have also lived five years in the Kingdom as well as two years in Iran. I have visited Oman several times. They have been producing oil for decades. As the article indicates, they have increased production from last year and are now producing close to a million bbls a day.
Well, I am delighted to know that Oman is still producing oil. Good for them. You must know, you were there...recently. I stand corrected.
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