The growing prevalence of foreign currency deposits in Turkey’s banking sector is symptomatic of the country’s long-standing inflation problem. Unless the central bank breaks with the past and brings down inflation on a sustained basis, deposit dollarisation is likely to become more widespread and risks in local banks will intensify.
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