TURKEY’S boom in 2010-11 has shaped it into one of Europe’s top investment destinations, with a $20-billion development programme now under way to sustain its growth over the medium term.

BODRUM, a sought-after summer destination of Turkey that receives more than two million foreign visitors each year, has a new showpiece airport terminal that has been designed to breathe new life into the monotonous environments normally associated with such facilities.

A NUMBER of Liebherr cranes have dominated the skyline at Atasehir, which is being developed as Istanbul’s new business district, as two strikingly different projects have taken shape over the past few years.

THE Middle East has re-emerged as one of the biggest export markets for Turkish tiles and sanitary ware products such as wall and floor tiles, vitreous wares, granite and glass mosaics, accounting for $90.5 million worth of imports in the first six months of this year.