IMF Head: "Turkey can achieve economic performance above expectations"

International Monetary Fund head Dominique Strauss-Kahn, currently in Istanbul for the IMF’s annual meetings, said over the weekend that if Turkey continues its current policies, it could achieve economic performance above expectations. Pointing to Turkey's financial sector reforms, Strauss-Kahn said that they were expecting a fast recovery of the Turkish economy next year. He said that as a member of G-20, which shapes the world economy, Turkey has one of the leading international economies. In related news, George Friedman, the head of US-based private intelligence firm Stratfor, predicted that in the coming century countries including Turkey, Poland, Mexico and Japan will emerge as great powers, and industrialized countries will vie to attract migrant workers as their populations fall.