Turkey's manufacturing capacity utilization rate decreased in August to the lowest level in nearly two-and-a-half years, while factory confidence improved slightly, figures from the central bank showed on Monday.
The capacity utilization rate dropped to 73.5 percent in August from 74.2 percent in the previous month. Further, a similar rate was last seen in March 2023.
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