Turkey Finances

The International Monetary Fund announced a $10-billion credit package for Turkey in an effort to stem a financial crisis that has seriously undermined the nation's economy and threatened to spread to other emerging markets. The package includes $7.5 billion in emergency credits and nearly $3 billion already available to Turkey under previous IMF agreements, according to IMF officials. Turkey would be eligible to receive the first credits of $2.8 billion on Dec.

The International Monetary Fund announced a $10-billion credit package for Turkey in an effort to stem a financial crisis that has seriously undermined the nation's economy and threatened to spread to other emerging markets. The package includes $7.5 billion in emergency credits and nearly $3 billion already available to Turkey under previous IMF agreements, according to IMF officials. Turkey would be eligible to receive the first credits of $2.8 billion on Dec.

Twenty people who are expecting $200 gourmet Thanksgiving dinners prepared by the Los Angeles Culinary Institute to be delivered at their doors this morning may be in for a rude awakening. The landlord of the award-winning school for chefs, citing non-payment of rent, evicted the school and changed the locks on the doors of its building at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.

Twenty people who are expecting $200 gourmet Thanksgiving dinners prepared by the Los Angeles Culinary Institute to be delivered at their doors this morning may be in for a rude awakening. The landlord of the award-winning school for chefs, citing non-payment of rent, evicted the school and changed the locks on the doors of its building at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center.

Six months ago, voters angered by decades of corruption and mismanagement swept the novice Justice and Development Party into office, hoping that this nation's first single-party government in 15 years could end a recession that had left 2 million people jobless. Despite qualms over the party's Islamist roots, Western-oriented business leaders welcomed the result.