Tag: transatlantic trade

A New Boost to Transatlantic Ties: The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the EU-Turkey Customs Union
By: Eray Akdag / The German Marshall Fund
Eray Akday is the TUSIAD Permanent Ankara Representative. The below article was published by The German Marshall Fund in their “On Turkey” series. You can find the original here.
During Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s recent visit to the United States, the White House declared that “the United States and Turkey decided today to establish a bilateral High Level Committee led by the Ministry of Economy of Turkey and the Office of the U.S. Read more

Statement by TUSIAD President Muharrem Yilmaz
April 17, 2013
TUSIAD President Muharrem Yilmaz made the following statement on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP):
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is the
most recent chapter in the Transatlantic Economic Partnership (TEP) project, which was launched at the 1998 US – EU Summit in London. Read more

Don't forget free trade with Turkey
By: Kemal Kirisci / The National Interest
Last month, both the U.S. and the European Union (EU) took important internal steps to prepare the ground work for negotiations to establish the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. TTIP would create the largest integrated market in the world, bringing together half of the world’s GDP and 30 percent of world trade. Read more