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Physica A 390 (2011) 3454–3476 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Physica A journal homepage: /locate/physa Hierarchical structure of Turkey’s foreign trade Ersin Kantar a,c , Bayram Deviren b , Mustafa Keskin c,∗ a Institute of Science, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey b Department of Physics, Nevsehir University, 50300 Nevşehir, Turkey c Department of Physics, Erciyes University, 38039 Kayseri, Turkey a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: We examine the hierarchical structures of Turkey’s foreign trade by using real prices of Received 21 January 2011 their commodity export and import move together over time. We obtain the topological Received in revised form 5 April 2011 properties among the countries based on Turkey’s foreign trade during the 1996–2010 Available online 13 May 2011 period by using the concept of hierarchical structure methods (minimal spanning tree, (MST) and hierarchical tree, (HT)). These periods are divided into two subperiods, such as Keywords: 1996–2002 and 2003–2010, in order to test various time-window and observe the temporal Correlation networks evolution. We perform the bootstrap techniques to investigate a value of the statistical Minimal spanning tree Bootstrap technique reliability to the links of the MSTs and HTs. We also use a clustering linkage procedure in Foreign trade order