The Turkish Economy Is Struggling with Political Volatility

The author wrote that Turkey’s current economic policy-mix in 2017 was untenable in the long term.

In July 2018 Fadi Hakura wrote in a Chatham House: Expert Comment that the deteriorating state of the economy was President Erdoğan’s Achilles’ heel and the biggest threat to his currently unrivalled leadership.

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ESO: Background information: OECD Economic Surveys: Turkey 2016 http://www.europeansources.info/record/oecd-economic-surveys-turkey-2016/

Carnegie Europe: Article, 14.08.18: [Op-Ed]: The Autocratic Origins of Turkey’s Economic Crisis http://carnegieeurope.eu/2018/08/14/autocratic-origins-of-turkey-s-economic-crisis-pub-77033

Chatham House: Expert Comment, 12.07.18: Turkey Is on the Road to a Severe Economic Crisis https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/turkey-road-severe-economic-crisis

Social Europe, 04.09.18: The Economic Costs Of Erdoğan https://www.socialeurope.eu/the-economic-costs-of-erdogan

ECFR: Commentary, 27.09.18: An awkward embrace: Erdoğan in Germany https://www.ecfr.eu/article/commentary_germany_and_turkey_awkward_embrace_erdogan_berlin

LSE European Institute: EuroppBlog, 26.09.18: Why Turkey’s currency crisis is deepening the rift between Ankara and the West http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2018/09/26/why-turkeys-currency-crisis-is-deepening-the-rift-between-ankara-and-the-west/

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