dr ali burak guven is from birkbeck university of london.f all, tell me what you think is the main cause of what's going on in turkey right now. what is behind the financial turmoil that i think you summarise it fairly well. turkey has had a fairly unsustainable growth model for many years now based on high current—account deficits, consumption —based growth which made a very foreign capital to panic, and on top of that we have had some political strain in recent months. having said that, for a long time this was not an existential issue for turkey, the growth model itself, because turkey stuck to fiscal discipline, it had a very predictable policies that, in the international markets were flush with liquidity. all those preconditions have now fully shifted and that exposes turkey to all sorts of problems. that shift, how do you think we can re—calibrate things? what you of the potential medium—term measures for stabilisation and recovery of the turkish economy? i i think i policymakers have been slow in responding to the crisis. at the mome