{"id":16259,"date":"2022-06-08T13:57:31","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T11:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/?p=16259"},"modified":"2024-07-04T10:34:24","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T10:34:24","slug":"erdogan-facing-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/erdogan-facing-inflation","title":{"rendered":"Erdogan facing inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Despite inflation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still wants to lower interest rates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>INFLATION Inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% YoY in May<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Monday that he wants to lower interest rates again as inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% year on year in May. \u201cLet no one expect that from us. This government will not raise interest rates. On the contrary, we will continue to lower them,\u201d Erdogan said at a press conference following a meeting with his cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Turkish president Erdogan believes, contrary to conventional economic theories, that high interest rates promote inflation. He had forced the central bank at the end of 2021 to lower its key <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azkangroup.com\/monetary-crisis-in-turkey-deepens-after-interest-rate-cut.html\">rate<\/a> from 19% to 14%, between September and December, causing the collapse of the national currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Erdogan : “We don’t have an inflation problem”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation in Turkey hit 73.5% year on year in May, the highest since December 1998, pushed by rising energy and food prices, official data showed on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation is at the heart of the debates in Turkey, one year before the presidential election, scheduled for June 2023, the opposition and many economists accusing the National Statistics Office (T\u00fcik) of knowingly and largely underestimating its magnitude. “We don’t have an inflation problem. But a problem of high cost of living, \u201dsaid the Turkish head of state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He had forced the central bank at the end of 2021 to lower its key rate from 19% to 14%, between September and December, causing the collapse of the national currency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inflation in Turkey is now at its highest since December 1998, driven by rising energy and food prices, official data showed on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is at the heart of the debates in Turkey, one year before the presidential election, scheduled for June 2023, the opposition and many economists accusing the National Statistics Office (T\u00fcik) of knowingly and largely underestimating its magnitude. .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite inflation, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan still wants to lower interest rates. 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