Turkish Lira

Mehmet Emin Calkan begins work harvesting a tobacco field in rural Turkey before dawn, then has another shift skewering and stringing the tobacco to dry under the sun. The 19-year-old, who hopes…

Turkey's lira dipped 0.4% against the dollar on Tuesday as concerns over rampant inflation were stoked by President Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to continue cutting interest rates. In a Monday evening…

The Turkish lira continues to touch record lows, the first of its kind, at a time when the Central Bank is trying to control its exchange rate against foreign currencies. The lira continues its…

Turkey has been forcing people for almost a year now to trade using its local currency in different Syrian regions that lie on its southern border and are under its army’s control. Likewise, these…