brussels will manage to head off an almost certain collision well maybe being the operative word ginnell do malone reporting that a little over a month before the next election turkey's president. is trying to create the image of a country with a strong economy and at first glance he's right you call them a group more than seven percent to twenty seventeen but inflation is what you above the targets and the man in charge is dead against raising interest rates. many young people in turkey can't find a job a sure sign that the boom years are over one in five in that age group is no jobless the country's economy has taken several hits in recent years one main reason more and more foreign capital is leaving turkey an emerging economy especially dependent on outside investment. those factors have sent the country's currency the lira tumbling by twelve percent since mid april alone it's lost seventeen percent since the start of the year. to stop the trend and to attract foreign money again the central bank would have to raise interest rates even further it lifted one key rate to thirteen and a