20 Apr 2018
Turkey’s Achilles heel is and remains its high level of short-term debt and its reliance on volatile capital flows to finance its large gross financing requirements.
COUNTRY: Turkey
01 Dec 2017
Event Since September 2017, the Turkish Lira is again under pressure (cf. graph). End November, lira deprecation was driven by confirmation that a ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
04 May 2017
Event A slim majority approved the referendum on constitution change held in April. Most of the constitution modifications will be effective after ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
02 Dec 2016
Event The election of Donald Trump was followed by capital outflows from emerging markets. As a result, various EM currencies, among which the ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
01 Aug 2016
Event A group of soldiers tried to seize power in Turkey on 15-16 July. The plotters were rapidly arrested and the situation was quickly under ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
05 Jul 2016
Event Following President Erdogan’s apologies for the downing of a Russian aircraft, the relationship between Russia and Turkey has improved. As a ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
01 Jun 2016
Event Following growing tensions with President Erdogan, former Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu stepped down. He was replaced by Binali Yildirim, a ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
01 Feb 2016
Event A suicide bomber killed 10 tourists in Istanbul’s historical centre. Moreover, in December 2015 Russia adopted sanctions against Turkey, ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
03 Nov 2015
Event Against pre-poll forecasts in a context of widening divisions among the Turkish society, president Erdogan claimed a great personal victory as ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
03 Aug 2015
Event In July, Turkey was hit by a series of attacks; the worst was the killing of 32 persons by alleged IS-linked militants in the Kurdish-majority ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
08 Jun 2015
Event According to preliminary results, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) secured 258 seats in the parliament, less than the majority. The ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
01 Jun 2015
Event Parliamentary elections will take place on 7 June. While the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) is likely to be re-elected as President ...
COUNTRY: Turkey
