Berat Albayrak

Turkey will unveil measures to reduce the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak this week, the treasury and finance minister said on March 16.

"President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will announce steps to be taken this week," Berat Albayrak said on Twitter.

Albayrak stressed that the country prioritized being prepared for the effects of coronavirus outbreak on the economy.

Turkey is joining the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this year with a more positive outlook, the Turkish treasury and finance minister has said.

Turkey sees 2020 as an important year for foreign direct investment, Berat Albayrak said during the 50th WEF in Davos, on Jan. 22.

Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has predicted that the Turkish economy grew by 5 percent in the fourth quarter of 2019.

Turkey has completed the infrastructure of financing model that will help low income groups and minimum-wage earners to buy homes at favorable terms, Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak has said.

Turkey and the U.S. are determined to reach a $100 billion bilateral trade volume, said Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak on Sept. 9.

The state-owned Ziraat Bank has provided a total of 1.9 billion Turkish Liras (around $346n million) of financing to farmers under the "greenhouse farming loan package" that was launched in February by Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak.

Growth and employment target set out in the new economic program will be overshot as the economy will show a stronger performance in the second half of the year, Turkish Finance and Treasury Minister Berat Albayrak said on July 5, addressing the 7th Ordinary General Assembly of the Association of Financial Leasing in Istanbul.

Ankara is continuing with its strategy of fueling tension in the Eastern Mediterranean, announcing its intention to send a second drill ship off Cyprus, while Turkish jets violated Greek airspace in the Aegean on Monday.

Turkey is carrying out policies pledged in the reform package, the country's Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak said late April 22, after his ministry announced that government debt securities worth 3.7 billion euros ($4.16 billion) will be issued to support the banking sector.

A high-stakes bargaining game is currently in progress over the fate of the US-made F-35 fighter jets and Russian-made S-400 missile systems ordered by Turkey. We are keenly anticipating how this will all end. We are living in different times to the days when decisions in the United States were taken by bureaucrats and competent state officials.