Capital movements affect Turkey like other countries

By Tuba Sahin

ANKARA (AA) - Turkey is affected by global capital movements as much as other countries, the finance minister said on Wednesday, referring to the Turkish lira losing ground.

"Turkey is affected much less than before from exchange rate volatilities," Berat Albayrak told news channel NTV.

Albayrak stressed Turkey is managing fluctuations in a controlled manner.

Turkish lira lost around 22% of its value against the US dollar since the beginning of this year. The dollar/lira exchange rate hit an all-time high of around 7.37 last Thursday.

Pointing to the rapid revival of the economy in May and June, Albayrak said Turkey will be among the least hit countries in the second quarter of this year due to the coronavirus pandemic.

All economic data shows Turkey's economic recovery is off to a strong start with the lifting of restrictions.

"On contrary to international institutions' forecasts which show a contraction of above 5%, we expect Turkish economy to grow between minus 2% and plus 1% this year, above the world average," Albayrak said.