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Turkish lira plunges

The sharp drop in the Turkish lira on the news that the main opposition leader, Ekrem İmamoğlu, has been arrested will complicate the central bank’s task of bringing inflation down and raises big questions about the government’s ability to sustain investor confidence in its macro reform agenda.

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