Turkish manufacturing capacity down in June
The Turkish State Institute of Statistics (DIE) has announced figures showing that manufacturing industry in the country operated at 71.7% of capacity in June this year, compared with 76.7% in the same month of 2000.
The statistics were obtained by polling 678 businesses. Of those questioned, 58.7% blamed low domestic demand as the main reason for running below capacity. Poor conditions in export markets were only mentioned by 10% of respondents.