G20

Over the last few months, Turkey has been preparing to host the much anticipated G-20 Summit 2015 for its first time at Antalya's Belek resort on Nov. 15 and 16. Hürriyet has prepared a guide to further delve into what G-20 means, who will attend the summit and which topics will be on agenda in the guide below collected in 12 points.

President Barack Obama will travel to Turkey for a G20 summit, followed by stops in the Philippines and Malaysia for meetings with world leaders next month, the White House said on Oct. 26.

G-20 finance ministers endorsed the final package of measures for a comprehensive, coherent and co-ordinated reform of the international tax rules during a meeting on Oct. 8, in Lima, according to a written statement Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development OECD). 

Top officials from the world's major 20 economies (G-20) and global business leaders have agreed on the latter's 19-item list of demands to solve problems in the world economy, upon a meeting in Ankara attended by treasury ministers, central bank heads from the G-20 countries and business leaders from the international business community, daily Hürriyet reported on Sept. 6.

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Cevdet Y?lmaz has joined Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Angel Gurria to present the newly revised G20 Principles of Corporate Governance.
      
Corporate governance is a set of rules to ensure that companies are run fairly and equitably.
      

The 52nd International Antalya Film Festival has been postponed by a month to mid-November, the municipality of the southern province of Antalya announced Sept. 4.
      
The event was postponed to Nov. 29 - Dec. 6 due to the Nov. 1 general election, and the G20 summit scheduled for Nov. 15-16 in Antalya, the municipality said in the statement.
      

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde said the world economy is recovering but fragile mainly due to lower productivity rates in a business conference on the sidelines of the G-20 finance ministers' meeting in the Turkish capital city of Ankara. 

Global business leaders will discuss world economy risks and their expectations from G-20 countries in a series of meetings in the capital city of Ankara on Sept. 3-5. 

USA will put pressure on Europeans to fulfill their commitment regarding the Greek debt relief at G20 summit, according to what a representative of the US Treasury stated at MNI.

Japanese Finance Minister Taro Aso said on Sept. 1 it would be beneficial for this week's meeting of the Group of 20 major economies to discuss what is going on in China's economy.

China is Japan's biggest trading partner. China's stock markets have lost nearly 40 percent of their value since mid-June as an economic slowdown rattles investors.