Turkey’s business resilience offers Irish opportunity

Fostering nascent trading relations with the gateway to the East is important, writes John Whelan.

If you visit Enterprise Ireland’s office in Istanbul you may find a change of address has been hastily placed on the landmark twin towers office and luxury hotel block known as Trump Towers, which dominates the Sisli district of Istanbul.

Outraged over Donald Trump’s anti-Islamic rhetoric, the Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called for the immediate removal of the Trump name.