Author: Javed Mahmood

I am an experienced writer, analyst, and author. My exposure in English journalism spans more than 28 years. In the past, I have been working with daily The Muslim (Lahore Bureau), daily Business Recorder (Lahore/Islamabad Bureaus), Daily Times, Islamabad, daily The Nation (Lahore and Karachi). With daily The Nation, I have served as Resident Editor, Karachi. Since 2009, I have been working as a Freelance Writer/Editor for American organizations.

Deteriorating external financing, rising inflation, de-anchoring of inflation expectations, political divergence with the West in NATO, and the Turkish central bank inability to alter policy to influence macro developments mean the Turkish lira is having to depreciate to equalize the mounting economic pressures, analysts said.

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