| | | Anadolujet to hire 2,000 workers | | Anadolujet, the low-cost subsidiary of Turkish Airlines (THY), expects to provide jobs for 2,000 people before the end of this year, a company official announced on Sunday. | | | European finance ministers to agree on Greek aid | | Euro zone finance ministers are likely to agree on Monday on a mechanism for aiding Greece financially, if it is required, but will leave out any sums until Athens asks for them, an EU source said on Saturday. | |
| Turkey and the IMF: the beginning of a new era | | Wednesday′s call for the suspension of prolonged talks over a possible stand-by deal by both the Turkish government and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is considered a breakthrough in the Turkish economy, marking the beginning of a new era in 49 years of relations with the fund, observers agree. | | | OECD calls for Turkey to cut incentives for early retirement | | Turkey’s path to long-term growth requires major and politically difficult reforms, including the elimination of incentives for early retirement and the introduction of legislation to foster temporary employment, says the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). | | |
| İstanbul’s outlying districts come to fore with new developments | With recent investment projects and more to come, İstanbul’s Pendik, Şerifali, Çekmeköy, Bayrampaşa and Silivri districts have attracted a great deal of attention as regions with potential for further development in the near future, despite being located at a distance from the city center, a recent survey has shown.
| | | Report: Airbus, engine group seek damages | | A German newspaper reports that Airbus’ military arm and the engine-making consortium for the A400M transporter plane are seeking hundreds of millions of euros from each other in a dispute over delays to the project. | | | Yıldız: New working group to decide fate of nuclear plants | Natural Resources and Energy Minister Taner Yıldız has expressed his ministry’s determination to build Turkey’s first nuclear power plant, stating that a new working group will start to draw up an internal report to assess the viability of progressing in the regions under consideration.
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| | | Dinçer: Occupational accidents cost Turkey TL 4 billion | | Labor and Social Security Minister Ömer Dinçer has said that the cost of occupational accidents is estimated to be TL 4 billion a year, a figure expected to be reduced with the introduction of new projects to improve working practices. | | | Greece hit by strikes over austerity measures | | Greek police fired tear gas to disperse protesters throwing rocks and firebombs outside Parliament as more than 20,000 people marched through central Athens during a nationwide strike against the government’s harsh new austerity measures. | |