ANKARA - Prime Minister and Justice and Development Party (AK Party) leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey's rate of capacity usage, which had been 25-30 percent when they came into political power, increased to 90 percent now.
Making a speech during AK Party group meeting, Erdogan said that they could say now that Turkey could reach average inflation rate of the European Union (EU), adding that they started to see signs of it.
Erdogan said that despite problems of last month, there was not any hesitation in markets and stock exchange and noted that Turkey was only looking at the future.
(EÖ-AÖ) 09.12.2003