Turkey aims to double current growth by 2023: Erdogan

By Sibel Kurtoglu

ISTANBUL (AA) – Turkey is aiming for a $1 trillion foreign trade volume and a $2 trillion gross domestic product, the nation’s president said on Saturday.

“We need to double Turkey’s current growth in order to reach our goals for 2023,” the Republic of Turkey’s centenary, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told the Foreign Economic Relations Board’s (DEIK) general assembly in Istanbul.

Stating that the questions being raised about Turkey’s economy at home and abroad can only be dispelled through developing new approaches to technology and capital, he added:

“High technological investments are the main ones among these.”