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    IMF protests in Istanbul

    Police break up IMF protests in Istanbul

    Turkish police used water cannons and pepper spray on Tuesday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting the annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Istanbul.

    Masked protesters shattered windows of banks and a McDonald's restaurant as they ran through the streets behind Istanbul's Taksim square, less than a kilometre away from the venue of the IMF meeting. Store owners shuttered their shops along the tourist route of Istiklal Street on Tuesday.

    The IMF is meeting in large part to find ways to prevent a financial crisis like the one that swept across the globe last year from happening again.

    Last week, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn talked openly about a plan that would see banks contribute to an insurance policy against a future economic collapse.

    IMF and Turkey in loan negotiations
    The IMF and Turkey are also engaged in talks about a new loan deal to boost investor confidence, but Turkey has balked at cost-cutting measures the IMF is insisting on before the deal can be approved.

    The meeting has attracted protests from those who blame the IMF for its role in last year's economic downturn.

    Thousands of police erected barriers around the venue and detained dozens of protesters on Tuesday, mostly from local leftist parties and labour unions. Clouds of tear gas filled the air above Taksim Square as firefighters fought to put out a blaze apparently set by protesters.

    On Oct. 1, the first day of the meeting, a protester threw a shoe at Strauss-Kahn and ran towards the speaker's platform shouting "IMF get out," but was blocked by security guards and dragged from the hall.

    After additional protesters tried to unfurl an anti-IMF banner, the conference was cut short and the hall evacuated.

    The Istanbul meeting is expected to finish on Wednesday.

    http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/1...ul-turkey.html
    "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X
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    Re: IMF protests in Istanbul

    That shoe was the protester's own shoe and it was a 'Nike'. LOL at him, postmodern anti-capitalists haha

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      Re: IMF protests in Istanbul

      Originally posted by Army View Post
      That shoe was the protester's own shoe and it was a 'Nike'. LOL at him, postmodern anti-capitalists haha
      The IMF is the most corrupt financial entity in the world. They loan money to countries and hold the people hostage.
      "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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        Re: IMF protests in Istanbul

        Turkey, IMF deal nears

        WASHINGTON - Turkey and the International Monetary Fund are close to reaching a deal. However, prior to signing any deals, there still are some outstanding differences that need to be resolved, says Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

        Turkey and the International Monetary Fund, or IMF, are close to reaching a fresh deal, but the two sides first need to resolve some disagreements, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and the Fund's Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said separately late Saturday.

        "We are at the closest point to a solution," Erdoğan told Turkish reporters after the summit meeting here of the Group of 20 countries. "I'm confident that rather rapidly it will be possible to reach a deal, and this is ... needed to stabilize the situation in Turkey," Strauss-Kahn said after the summit. Erdoğan and Strauss-Kahn met at the IMF building in Washington Friday, and the prime minister said their teams had additional talks Saturday.

        "The IMF is an institution actually created to give such support at such times. A backing that might come from here [the IMF] would be a [good] argument especially during this transition process in our country," Erdoğan said.

        "We still have some disagreement on the size of the adjustment and the consequences of the adjustment needed by the Turkish economy," as well as the size of the loan, Strauss-Kahn noted.

        Erdoğan said Friday the IMF urges Turkey to curb 2009 growth target to 2 percent, to stop investments and cut local administrations' income. "I can't do that. We are a developing country," he said.

        Erdoğan’s complaints
        He said in his speech at the Brookings Institution that if those issues were resolved, then Turkey would consider working with the IMF. Asked Saturday if such complaints remained in place, Erdoğan said "yes" but added that he believed there were improvements.

        Strauss-Kahn said Turkey, had been badly affected by the drying up of capital inflows as a result of the global credit crisis. "The drying up of capital inflows has a lot of different results, especially on those countries that were attracting a lot of investment. We need to help them to get out of this bad situation. That's the core discussion we had," he said.

        With a huge current account deficit, Turkey has seen a sharply depreciating currency.

        Turkey completed in May a three-year stand-by arrangement supported by more than $10 billion in IMF loans, and the two sides have been discussing a fresh deal. However, the government has been reluctant for a new deal mainly because of planned local elections in March. It does not want to face the IMF's spending restrictions before the polls. The IMF has warned the authorities against increased spending for municipalities as Turkey's financial markets have been hit severely by the global crisis. Meanwhile, the markets and Turkey's business community push for a new program with the IMF, believing that the fund as a strong anchor would help weather the crisis more easily.

        Obama representatives
        In a separate development, Erdoğan met with U.S. president-elect Barack Obama's representatives late Saturday to discuss U.S.-Turkish relations. Former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former Republican Congressman Jim Leach and Phil Gordon, a foreign policy adviser to Obama, attended the meeting as the president-elect's team. Both sides declined to comment on the talks' nature.


        Relations with Turkey 'smooth'

        Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and chief of the IMF, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, agreed to be in close contact and cooperation, according to an IMF statement yesterday. World Bank officials, for their part, who also met the Turkish delegation, noted that they appreciated the development of Turkey’s economy. They also underlined that they are willing to increase credit possibilities to limit the impact of the global crisis. The country quota set for Turkey might thus be extended to release more credits for small- and medium-sized enterprises and investment on renewable energies.

        The crisis is the most severe since the one in 1929, Erdoğan said. "Global crisis cannot be overcome only by efforts from individual countries, it requires concerted action," he said. "Turkey is ready to share its own experiences with the U.S. and other global actors."

        http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/finance/10373437.asp
        "Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it." ~Malcolm X

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          Re: IMF protests in Istanbul

          New Zealand is in debt slavery to Westpac bank of Australia, but we avoided the IMF and the World Bank both of which were set up by Washington and act as a slush fund for failed economic policy, and if you are African it charges interest through the roof and into space. You are better getting money from China, Middle East or Russia than the IMF or World Bank.

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            Re: IMF protests in Istanbul

            Originally posted by hipeter924 View Post
            New Zealand is in debt slavery to Westpac bank of Australia, but we avoided the IMF and the World Bank both of which were set up by Washington and act as a slush fund for failed economic policy, and if you are African it charges interest through the roof and into space. You are better getting money from China, Middle East or Russia than the IMF or World Bank.
            I think in some cases "you have to"

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