World Bank: Turkey’s Growth is not Artificial

As Vorkink was leaving the "First Banking Arena" at the Ankara Sheraton Hotel, he spoke to journalists about the growth. The 12.4 percent growth is the result of stability in the economy, Vorkink said, but the banking sector needs to be more active.

When asked if growth creates a threat to consumption, Vorkink said that growth was healthy, and that consumption and production increased. When asked whether the growth was ‘hormoned,’ so to speak, he said: "the growth is not hormoned. This is a healthy growth, because it is not an imposed growth, but rather the result of economic production actors."