Reuters: Turkey will not lose the economic war it is engaged in, President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying on Friday, after the lira tumbled to a record low against the U.S. dollar over economic worries and concerns over a row with the United States. “We will not lose the economic war,” Erdogan was quoted as saying by state broadcaster TRT Haber. Turkey’s lira TRYTOM=D3 plunged as much as 14 percent on Friday as worries about Erdogan’s influence over monetary policy and worsening U.S. relations snowballed into a market panic that also hit shares of European banks.
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