Turkey's industrial production falls 1% in May


Turkey's calendar-adjusted industrial production fell 1 percent in May, compared to the previous month, the country's statistics agency TurkStat announced Tuesday.The producers of capital goods saw the largest decrease of 5.7 percent, according to the Main Industrial Groupings.As for other sectors of the industry, the production of mining and quarrying decreased by 2.6 percent in May, while the electricity, gas, steam and air conditioning supply index remained stable, TurkStat said.The agency also stated that calendar-adjusted industrial production increased by 3.3 percent compared with the same month last year.