Mark Bentley

@MarkABentley

Journalist/analyst. Ex-Turkey bureau chief and head of European investment news for Bloomberg. Retweets not endorsement

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  1. 59 seconds ago

    Terrible data for Turkish producer prices. Rose 6.6% m/m to an annual 32.1%. CPI also worse than expected at 17.9%. Lira slump taking its toll Producer prices accelerated 3X faster in a month than they did in a year in developed markets.

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  2. 9 hours ago

    Turkey sees its future in the EU, foreign minister says I guess that’s why they closed down the Ministry for EU Affairs in July then

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    10 hours ago

    Hatalı girilmiş değil......yanlış giriş varmış. Ben ikna oldum

    Doları 3.72, euro'yu 4.32 gösteren Halkbank'ın Genel Müdürü Arslan: Kur bilgisi hatalı girilmiş değil ama ülkeler arası faiz makasının bir düzeltme faktörü olarak kura olan etkisinden kaynaklana…
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    19 hours ago

    Turkey's imbalances in 2001 stemmed from large fiscal deficits; the private sector was a net saver. This time around the private sector is the driver of external imbalances (with government incentives in the form of credit guarantees).

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  5. 20 hours ago

    More bad news for Turkish inflation. Electricity prices hiked 15%, natural gas 9%

    Elektrik ve doğalgaza yeni zam: Konutta doğalgaza yüzde 9, elektriğe yüzde 15 fiyat artışı
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    23 hours ago

    Halkbank Genel Müdürü'nden ucuz dolar açıklaması: 38 dakikada 1763 müşteri 4,3 milyon dolarlık işlem gerçekleştirdi!

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  7. 22 hours ago

    The lira is now worth 10.3 rubles compared with 16.9 rubles on Sept. 1 , 2017. Both currencies are volatile. The idea of trading in dollars is to have a relatively stable/predictable pricing mechanism for buying and selling goods. Choose the euro instead maybe?

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  8. 22 hours ago

    Erdogan urges partners to trade in local currencies instead of the dollar. But the lira has dropped massively against other currencies too e.g. 40% against the ruble in a year

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    Sep 1

    Turkey, once was close to ’s HTS group [ too], has now designated group as terror organisation. The decision is right, but timing speaks volume of ’s fluid relations with radicals. Jolani, the head of the group, was right when he warned about the move days ago.

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    Sep 1

    This photo says it all. Police block entire area to stop peaceful vigil of Saturday Mothers demanding accountability for their disappeared relatives. This is one month after the lifting of the State of Emergency in the week of the International day of the Disappeared!

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    Aug 31

    This, incidentally, is part of what still interests me in the Zarrab case, and why it’s still relevant. There, Giuliani tried to kill a case involving a Turkish corrupt shadow economy. The same cast of characters pop up where vast, secret flows of money undermine democracy.

    Giuliani letter criticizing Romania’s anti-corruption drive draws State Department attention via
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  12. Sep 1

    Hallkbank sells dollars on the cheap in an apparent technical failure Not great PR for a company already mired in controversy

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    Aug 31

    President Erdoğan is in Istanbul launching the beginning of the fishing season (?!). Live broadcast on all channels.

    Balıkçılık sezonu açılışı. Canlı. Tüm kanallarda. Şu anda.
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    Aug 31

    No more weapons sales to Arabia! Scathing editorial: "Again and again, Saudi-led airstrikes have struck civilian targets, slaughtering innumerable innocents."

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    Aug 31

    In & , Amb Jeffrey & DAS Rayburn will meet with Jordanian & Turkish leaders to reiterate the U.S. position that a military offensive in will escalate the crisis in & the region, risk the lives of civilians, and destroy civilian infrastructure.

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  16. Aug 31

    So Turkey has only just listed HTS, led by Al Nusra/Al Qaeda in Syria, as terrorist UN says about 10,000 Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) are in Idlib, which Turkey occupies. US labels them terrorists and UN says any group merged with Al Qaeda is considered so

    Turkey listed HTS as a terror group associated with Al Nusra and Al Qaeda on Wednesday. The designation says HTS’s area of activity is in…
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    Aug 31

    A very old Turkish joke that still holds power decades on...

    Turkish joke. A prisoner goes to the jail's library to borrow a book. The librarian says: "We don't have this book, but we have its author"
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    Aug 30

    White House staffer: “Moral in the White House has never been lower. It’s like a revolving door here, except most aides who leave aren’t being replaced. I’m sick of all the chaos & really concerned about how this will affect my career & my family. I didn’t sign on for this shit.”

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  19. Aug 31

    "Fire in the kitchen!" as Turkish food prices explode It seems a very bad print for inflation is looming next week. Signs of panic Price rises will exceed 20% in August and keep on accelerating, according to ex-head of Treasury .

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  20. Aug 30

    Link to HSBC consumer loan rates in Turkey here:

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