Turkey steadily lowered its policy rate from 19% in late 2021 to 8.5% in March as inflation concurrently ballooned, breaching 80% in late 2022.
Residents waiting at a bus stop under a large Turkish flag in Istanbul, Turkey, on Sunday, April 30, 2023.Turkey's central bank jacked up the country's key interest rate Thursday, almost doubling it from 8.5% to 15% as the new economic administration of recently re-elected President Recep Tayyip Erdogan embarked on a dramatic monetary policy U-turn.Turkey steadily lowered its policy rate from 19% in late 2021 to 8.
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