Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a press conference at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, on April 18, 2018.President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on April 18, 2018 called snap elections in Turkey for June 24, bringing the polls forward by over a year-and-a-half after a call from his main nationalist ally. Both presidential and parliamentary elections will be held on the same day. They had originally been scheduled for November 3, 2019. / AFP PHOTO / ADEM ALTAN
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is exploiting a bitter row with the United States to pin the blame for Turkey’s increasingly acute economic troubles on an external enemy rather than problems at home, analysts say.
Analysts had warned over recent months that pent-up imbalances meant Turkey’s economy was headed…
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