Wednesday, August 09, 2006

TURKISH COMPRADORS

When we say rich we mean dollar millionaires in Turkey. If you have 1 million dollars, you can live as a rentier. You have a house costed 250,000 dollars. You have a car costed 50,000 dollars. You may go to foreign countries for vacation. You speculate in stock exchange. Etc.
There are about 75,000 dollar millionaires in Turkey.
There are officially 21 dollar billionaires in Turkey. Unofficially more:
10 dollar billionaires made their money vaporized (totally 24 billion dollars).
There are 5 families or 5-10 (father-son or brother-brother) dollar billionaires as drug lords.
There are 2-5 dollar billionaires earning money in the foreign countries.

In Turkey 1 % of population takes 20 % of GNP.

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