(Zero Hedge) Following emergency bank meetings and numerous pleas by Erdogan for Turks not to “pull FX out of their banks,” blaming the country’s current economic crisis on America, the Lira has opened massively weaker – crashing below 7.00 per dollar for the first time ever…
That is the second day in a row that the lira has crashed over 75 handles!!!
As The FT reports, Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused other countries on Sunday of mounting an “operation” to bring down the Turkish economy…
“What is the cause of this storm?” he asked a gathering of ruling party officials in the Black Sea city of Trabzon. “There is no economic reason . . . It’s an operation against Turkey.”
But gave no indication he would meet investors’ demands for an emergency plan to prop up the plunging lira.