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  • Investing in Turkish Telecom

    By Daniel James - December 12, 2012 | Tickers: T, TKC, TKF, VZ

    With the rapidly approaching “Fiscal Cliff” in the United States, and the ongoing debt crisis in Europe, it is no wonder that many investors are turning to other economies as a means to generate returns. To my mind, Turkey represents a particularly compelling place to invest, due to its stable growth and relative political stability. The biggest Turkish equity traded in the US is Turkcell (NYSE: TKC), the country’s more »

  • Taking a Different Perspective on this Telecom Play

    By Sercan Arik - August 8, 2012 | Tickers: T, TKC, VZ

    The communications sector has been one of the most popular sectors of the last decade and with continuous and rapid growth of information technologies, it seems to remain popular at least for a decade more. However, there is still the question left: which part of the sector should be invested in as general headings; service providers, system developers or component manufacturers? Although there might promising opportunities within each of them more »

  • Turkey is No Turkey

    By Nick Slepko - June 4, 2012 | Tickers: SCHW, NDAQ, NYX, TKC, TUR

    Brand Turkey is working on its image abroad and struggling to overcome several centuries of bad press amongst all its neighbors.  It hasn't helped that Greeks, Armenians, Lebanese, and other diasporas have had several decades to get their side of events out in the West and either establish blame or take credit for a number of Turkish accomplishments.  Hopefully by the time New York-based Chobani and its "Greek" yogurt more »

  • Turkey's Got Talent

    By Nick Slepko - June 1, 2012 | Tickers: KO, TKC, TUR, TKF, WU | Editor's Choice

    Turkey has increased its billionaires by 50% in the same time it has taken Warren Buffett to raise a similar amount in corporate welfare from US taxpayers.  Despite the last several years of global financial angst, Istanbul is currently home to 38 billionaires (ranked seventh worldwide), none of whom are anchored to the oil curse like the majority of their neighboring billionaires, nor are they slaves to the yo-yo cash more »

  • Turkcell is a Turkbuy

    By Nick Slepko - December 31, 2011 | Tickers: AMZN, AAPL, GOOG, TKC, V

    “Turkcell 3G is faster than 4G in the US.” -- Steve Wozniak, Apple co-founder

    Turkcell Superonline infrastructure puts Turkey in the top five fastest residential broadband territories (along with Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal, and Slovenia).

    As Time magazine learned when Turkey’s founder Ataturk was voted the most important figure of last century in an online poll, and as Facebook knows from Turkish being its members’ second language, the young republic more »