Posted by meb at February 23rd, 2007

Turkey’s economy is on the rise when compared with the European Union (EU) member states, according to the figures of State Planning Organization (DPT).
Turkey, which surpassed Poland in 2003, Austria in 2004 and Sweden in 2005, will overtake Belgium with the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) it records this year.
Turkey’s year-end GDP is forecast as 433.2 bln USD (329.8 bln Euro), while that of Belgium is to be around 326.6 bln Euro.
Thus, Turkey will become the seventh biggest economy in the EU following Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands.
Turkey is also expected to keep this position (seventh place among economies of EU member states) in 2008 with a GDP of 352.7 billion Euro.

source: The New Anatolian

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