Originally Posted by Artagun

well, your first number was in euros, not dollars, which translates to 10,500-11,000 dollars... or do you foresee dollar becoming stronger against euro?

Messiah:
"- Export: 150 billion$
- Import: 200 billion$ or even more
- nominal GDP per capita ca 8000€"

Originally Posted by vronsk

Infrastructure of Turkey will be different compared to EU/US, since our infrastructure will be newer. They already have an established infrastructure which dates back to past. I think they don't have much activity going on in renewing their infrastructure.

Our education level/quality will be in better shape. (i.e. # of publications/patents per academic staff)

We will talk less about the headscarf issue, religion etc, since it will become
less relevant.

Cyprus will become united before 2015.

We will see more foreign brands/cars in daily life.

Tourism will explode.

Kurdish/Armenian related issues will still be a problem.

S. Demirel will still be alive..