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Turkey's external vulnerabilities on the rise again

After a steady improvement over the past year, the narrowing of Turkey’s current account deficit stalled in January. What’s more, the latest data reveal an increasing dependence on short-term or “hot” capital inflows to fund the current account deficit, making the economy more vulnerable to any deterioration in the external funding environment.

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