“Renewable Energy Resources, Energy Efficiency and Opportunities” The forum which was hosted by Mr. Vedat Kirisçi, the President of Switzerland Chamber of Commerce in Turkey , took place at WOW Convention Center on November 5, 2009. Mr. Moritz Leuenberger, ...

V. Swiss - Turkish Economic Forum “Renewable Energy Resources, Energy Efficiency and Opportunities” WOW Istanbul Convention Center November 5, 2009 09:30 - 10:00 Registration 10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks: ...

Pharmacists from all over the world will meet at an international summit to be held in Istanbul in September. The International Pharmaceutical Federation (FIP) will hold its 69th World Congress of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences in Istanbul on September 3-8, Anatolia news ...

With internal migration from east to west posing a major problem for the country, the government says it will focus on investments in eastern Turkey between 2010 and 2012 in the hope of stemming the flow of people. The government says it ...

A proton-accelerator facility will be built in Turkey to conduct scientific research similar to that undertaken in the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Switzerland. The Turkish Housing Development Administration (TOKI) will lead the process of building the facility and will ...

In the first 6 months of 2009, foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Turkey have reached a $ 4.2 billion. The figure denotes a decrease by 57 % compared to the same period of last year. As of end of June 2009, ...

With 2,636 communes, 26 cantons and a federal tier of government, Switzerland very probably has the densest concentration of "politicians" in the world. But some posts remain unfilled, as Switzerland's system of grass-roots democracy is suffering from a shortage of volunteers. Why ...

The national postal services faces many challenges at home, but there are also opportunities abroad, Swiss Post's board chairman Claude Béglé tells swissinfo. Béglé believes that it is a time of change for the company, which has to straddle both innovation and ...

Switzerland and the United States have ended the legal battle involving UBS, but the potential cost to banking secrecy is unknown until details of the deal are released. Lawyers told a Miami judge that an agreement to release UBS client data to ...

The chief economist at the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (Seco) says the Swiss economy has most likely bottomed out and will soon grow again. "I assume that the low point has been reached," said Aymo Brunetti in an interview published in ...