The Embassy's Economic Section monitors and manages economic relations between the United States and Turkey.  The section provides U.S. government agencies in Washington D.C. and other U.S. embassies around the world with accurate, timely, first-hand information and expert analysis on Turkish economic and financial developments.  It supports U.S. economic and commercial interests by informing U.S. economic policy toward Turkey, encouraging further liberalization of Turkish markets, advocating for policies that improve the business and investment climate in Turkey, and promoting bilateral trade and investment.  The Economic Section works closely with other Embassy offices including the U.S. Foreign Commercial Service and the U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service.

Links

• BuyUSA.gov - U.S. Commercial Service Turkey
• Agriculture - Foreign Agricultural Service
• Department of State’s Bureau of Economic, Energy and Business Affairs
  The Bureau of Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs (EEB)'s mission is to promote economic security and prosperity at home and abroad. The Bureau's work lies at the critical nexus of economic prosperity and national security. As the single point where international economic policy tools and threads converge, we help promote a coherent economic policy across the U.S. Government. On this site you will find links and resources for all of these tools and the ways the U.S. Department of State and EEB are engaged to implement U.S. foreign economic policy.
• Doing Business in International Markets
  The Office of Commercial and Business Affairs (CBA) plays a major role in coordinating trade and investment matters in support of U.S. firms doing business overseas. Our mission is to ensure that private sector business concerns are fully integrated into U.S. foreign and economic policy, and engages U.S. government resources to assist and promote U.S. business interests overseas.
• Global Access Initiative for Small Businesses
  The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States. Ex-Im Bank's mission is to assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets.
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
  OPIC is the U.S. Government’s development finance institution.  It mobilizes private capital to help solve critical world challenges and in doing so, advances U.S. foreign policy. OPIC offers finance and risk mitigation products to private U.S. investors in more than 150 countries, mobilizing the participation of U.S. private capital to support sustainable economic development in emerging markets.  They have four funds available for investing in Turkey.
• U.S. Small Business Administration
  Small business is America's most powerful engine of opportunity and economic growth. That's where SBA comes in. SBA offers a variety of programs and support services to help you navigate the issues you face with your initial applications, and resources to help after you open for business.

Doing Business in the US

• Discover America - Official travel and tourism site of the U.S.
• Invest in America
• Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center
  IPR Center
  http://www.iprcenter.gov/
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration
  Protecting and Promoting Your Health
  http://www.fda.gov/
  Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center -IPR 
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration - Protecting and Promoting Your Healt

Iran Sanctions

New Website on Iran Sanctions

The U.S. Department of State has launched a comprehensive new web portal that compiles U.S. and international sanctions response to Iran’s illicit nuclear activities.  In response to Iran’s illicit nuclear activities, support for terrorism, and abuse of human rights, the United States and other countries have imposed sanctions on Iran.  You can access the web portal.

Also:

• İran Yaptırımları Hakkında Yeni Websitesi
• Ambassador Ricciardone on Iran Sanctions
• Summary 
• OFAC Home Page 
• UN Info

Specific Projects: Entrprenureship

• Partners for a New Beginning (PNB) is an alliance to foster public-private partnerships that are committed to broadening and deepening engagement between the United States and local communities abroad  (including Turkey) in support of President Obama’s vision for a New Beginning based on mutual interests and respect. Please click here for more information.
• FSECC  is the bilateral Cabinet-level Framework for Strategic Economic and Commercial Cooperation. In December 2009, President Obama established a Cabinet-level Framework for Strategic Economic and Commercial Cooperation (FSECC), jointly chaired by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Locke and U.S. Trade Representative Kirk and by Deputy Prime Minister Babacan and Minister of Trade Caglayan.  FSECC builds on the Economic Partnership Commission (EPC, chaired by the Department of State and Ministry of Foreign Affairs), and the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA, chaired by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and the Undersecretariat for Foreign Trade).  U.S.-Turkey Business Council (with membership from 8 U.S. companies and 11 Turkish companies), an integral part of the policy discussion within the FSECC, is expected to hold its first meeting in late summer 2011.  The inaugural FSECC meeting was held in Washington on October 19, 2010. 
• The Economic Partnership Commission, chaired by State Department Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez and Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary for the Americas Selim Yenel, forms an integral part of our bilateral economic dialog and has focused on moving our discussions to a more strategic level.  Particular attention has been placed on enhancing business-to-business ties, promoting innovation, energy sector cooperation and cooperation between U.S. and Turkish companies in third countries, with particular focus on Afghanistan, Iraq and within Africa.
• Near Zero Zone. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is implementing the Near-Zero Zone project, a demonstration project for industrial energy efficiency in Turkey. This innovative project is being executed in coordination with other U.S. government agencies and with the support of the Government of Turkey. Through a series of cost-effective energy efficiency investments, participating companies will illustrate how energy efficiency can make industry more profitable, reduce dependence on energy imports, bolster energy security, and cut carbon emissions. This project promises to serve as a model for industrial energy efficiency in Turkey and beyond.