BBC World Service. My name's Jim O'Neill, and I'm an economist, and this is the final part

of Mint, the next economic giants. About 12 years ago, I came up with an acronym you might

have heard of, BRICS, that's BRIC, Brazil, Russia, India and China. Countries I could see

were poised to join the world's economic top table. And that's pretty much of course

what's happened. Ever since then, people have constantly been asking me where the next

economic giants will come from. Now I think I know the answer. The Mints, M-I-N-T, Mexico,

Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. If the Mints reach their potential, they could also change the

world. But can they do it? I'm traveling to each of them to try and find out. And today, I'm in

the Sea of Mint, Turkey. The Silk Road is back, and Turkey is the gateway to all the four

regions around us. We are manufacturing these products in Turkey, Romania, Russia, China

and South Africa. How much would it cost me to buy this apartment? It's about 8 million

500. I ate half a million dollars. Yes.

I ran into a classmate online, and he offered me a job on the board of a bank that he was about

to buy. I told him, I said, I don't know nothing about banking. In fact, I didn't even have a

bank account. But he said, he didn't know anything about banking either. So it made no difference.

I mean, that we'd learn together in a way. Who's new as a jeggins? One of Turkey's most successful

businessmen. And in some ways, his extraordinary career sums up the Turkish economy. They've both

been volatile. And then I decided to find my own bank. I established a bank with only one million

dollars cash. But that was now in 87. 87. I started the bank a week after black Monday.

That was a pretty bold time to do. Turkey's been through pretty wild roller coaster rides since then.

Well, I'll give you an example of the roller coaster. The shares hit an all-time high back in

September 2000. It was 700 million dollars. And then in June of 2001, the shares came down to

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