Kemal Derviş

As long as Turkey remains distant from pluralistic democracy and the rule of law, and as long as it cannot secure an inclusive political atmosphere that is the most essential requirement of co-existence and economic development, all the economic gains it has achieved will be temporary and unsustainable.

Turkey’s economy experienced a “golden age” between 2002 and 2007 thanks to its robust maintenance of the independence of institutions adopting monetary policy, said Kemal Derviş, the economy minister in 2001-2002 responsible for launching Turkey’s recovery from a huge financial crisis.

In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “Chronicle of a Death Foretold,” the reader knows as he or she starts reading the novel, that the character Santiago Nasar is going to be murdered because Marquez begins his novel at the end and then he goes to the beginning, and the story unfolds.