Turkish economy and foreign trade developments after 1980

Turkish economy have implemented outward-oriented industrialization strategies and export-oriented industrialization policies by leaving import-oriented industrialization policy compared to pre-1980. However, the period's undoubtedly the deep wound that caused to a chronic high inflation, also the increase in internal and external debt, increase in export-import dependency day to day and as a result of the increasing current account deficits and overvalued Turkish Lira played an important role in the country's serious crisis as being the main macroeconomic structural problems. Turkey experienced severe economic crisis while the country was being dragged to a big dilemma in the post-1980 term. After 2000, Turkey has achieved a significant improvement in the economy, politics and foreign trade areas thanks to new recycling policies and several positive developments in the country's system. Trade volume has increased with each passing day. In the first part of the thesis, Turkey's Economy between the years of 1980-2013 was studied under the headings of inflation, unemployment, growth, internal and external debt, foreign direct investments, GDP and per capita income. In the second part, foreign trade improvements for the same period was studied under the headings of export, import, foreign trade policies, sector wise developments, structural problems in foreing trade policies and the effects of Customs Union to the country. In the last part, Turkey's 2023 Economics and Foreign Trade goals were studied.