Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s financial and strategic dilemmas

Source:Financial Times Date:19Sep2018

“Going to the IMF would be a big challenge,” says an AKP campaign strategist who underlines the party’s politically successful history of denouncing the tutelage of the fund. But, he adds, tacitly acknowledging it is an option: “Erdogan is good at explaining things to the nation.” And, he adds, “we need the money now”.