The opposition candidate secured victory in the rerun of Istanbul’s mayoral election, but this is unlikely to result in a favourable shift in the direction of economic policymaking in Turkey as a whole. And major risks still lie ahead for the economy, including the threat that the US imposes sanctions over Turkey’s purchase of a Russian missile defence system.
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