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Strong public finance will continue to be an important pillar of macroeconomic stability in Turkey, the country's treasury and finance minister said on Nov. 16.

"On the inflation front, unfortunately, we aren't at the level we desire," Lütfi Evan said in a speech at the Turkish Capital Markets Congress in Istanbul.

Turkey's Treasury and Finance Minister Lutfi Elvan said on Oct. 14 he participated in a G20 ministerial meeting in the US.

"We have discussed global inflation pressures, recent increase in commodity prices and rising global debt at the meeting," Elvan wrote on Twitter.

Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Lütfi Elvan and U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen on July 9 met on the sidelines of a G20 meeting in Venice.

"We held a very fruitful meeting [with Yellen] for the improvement of our economic and trade ties," Elvan wrote on Twitter amid the G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors meeting.

Attaching great importance to the markets' efficient and solid functioning, Turkey will not compromise from the free-market mechanism, the country's treasury and finance minister said on Mach 22. 

"Liberal exchange regime will continue resolutely," Lütfi Elvan said in a statement.

Six Turkish ministers gathered on Dec. 30 to discuss the country's reform agenda, the host minister said.

Working on an ambitious slate of economic and legal reforms, top Turkish officials on Dec. 4 met with key business leaders. 

Lütfi Elvan, the treasury and finance minister, and Abdulhamit Gül, the justice minister, met with leaders of the Independent Industrialists and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD).

The former owner of the Medicus clinic, Lutfi Dervishi, who is being retried for alleged involvement in organised crime in connection with people-trafficking, told Pristina Basic Court on Wednesday that he once assisted in a kidney transplant at the clinic.

Turkey should digitally transform its industry to boost competitiveness, Development Minister Lütfi Elvan said on Feb. 22. 

Greenfield investments in Turkey are on the verge of a boost due to a sharp increase in capacity utilization, Development Minister Lütfi Elvan has told daily Hürriyet.  

Turkey's government has received applications worth 23 billion Turkish liras ($6.45 billion) for regional projects in the country's east, Development Minister Lütfi Elvan said Feb. 24.      

In remarks to the media during a visit to the eastern province of Erzincan, Elvan said, "This is above our expectations."