{"id":11556,"date":"2018-08-15T03:26:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11556"},"modified":"2018-08-15T03:26:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T03:26:22","slug":"who-is-to-blame-for-turkeys-financial-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=11556","title":{"rendered":"Who is to blame for Turkey&#8217;s financial crisis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"article-body\" readability=\"79.7889800703\">\n<p>The Turkish lira is facing an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2018\/08\/turkey-lira-crisis-180814132601100.html\">unprecedented crash,<\/a> losing more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year.<\/p>\n<p>And its meltdown is rattling global markets. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/turkey.html\">Turkey<\/a>&#8216;s Central Bank has stepped in with measures it hopes will reassure Turks and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>And the finance ministry says it has an action plan in place.<\/p>\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/indepth\/spotlight\/turkeyelection\/2011\/05\/2011526121054590355.html\">Erdogan<\/a> blames the crisis on what he calls economic terrorists, but he has been criticised for his influence over the economy.<\/p>\n<p>What are the implications of the crisis in Turkey, at home and abroad?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Presenter:<\/strong> Mohammed Jamjoom<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guests:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ozgur Unlukisarcikli, director of the Ankara office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Dietrich von Kyaw, former German ambassador and permanent representative to the EU.<\/p>\n<p>Ege Seckin, senior political risk analyst at the firm IHS Markit.<\/p>\n<p><span>Source:<\/span>\u00a0<span>Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkish lira is facing an unprecedented crash, losing more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year. And its meltdown is rattling global markets. Turkey&#8217;s Central Bank has stepped in with measures it hopes will reassure Turks and financial markets. And the finance ministry says it has an action plan in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":11557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}