Mounting concerns about Turkey’s current account deficit as well as debt problems in the corporate sector are likely to keep the lira under pressure over the coming weeks. As a result, we now expect the central bank to respond by tightening monetary policy. We have pencilled in a 100bp hike in the late liquidity lending rate (to 13.75%) at the MPC meeting later this month.
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