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The Turkish emerging market time bomb

Many investors may look back next year and wish that they had snapped up a few lira when they had the chance

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Photo: Getty Images

Turkey’s falling currency and deteriorating financial conditions lend credence, at least for some people, to the notion that “a crisis is a terrible thing to waste”. I suspect that many western policymakers, in particular, are not entirely unhappy about Turkey’s plight.

To veteran economic observers, Turkey’s troubles are almost a textbook case of an emerging market flop. It is August, after all, and back in the 1990s, one could barely go a single year without some kind of financial crisis striking in the dog days of summer.

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