A surge in gold sales to crisis-hit Iran has played a significant role in reducing Turkey’s current account deficit over the past year. However, gold sales alone are unlikely to bring Turkey’s external deficit down to a sustainable level, and we continue to believe a period of extremely weak domestic demand will be required over the next year or so. In this Watch we explain why.
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