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Current exchange rate for US Dollar and Turkish Lira:

1 USD = 4.65179 Turkish Lira

(there was a time when Turkey's lira, was almost on par with the US dollar. Before Erdogan came to power.)

And Erdogan called for a "flash" election to be held on June 24th.

And he recently befriended/promoted the Commie Dictator running Venezuela.

What could possibly go wrong for Erdogan the Islamist?

1 posted on 05/22/2018 10:17:05 AM PDT by Texas Fossil
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To: Texas Fossil

They just need to keep centralizing and radicalizing.


2 posted on 05/22/2018 10:22:16 AM PDT by lurk
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To: Texas Fossil

Maybe Erdogan is cozying up to Maduro for tips on how to keep power, while crashing your economy.


4 posted on 05/22/2018 10:30:02 AM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Texas Fossil

Ataturk’s legacy squandered.


5 posted on 05/22/2018 10:34:14 AM PDT by Nothingburger
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To: Texas Fossil
Juicing economic growth via devaluation can work for a while. But eventually that runs out of steam. A decade ago, the lira was roughly at parity with the dollar:


7 posted on 05/22/2018 11:12:25 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving.)
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