the once bustling streets in istanbul's world famous hooten ahmed neighborhood are empty and the mosul hotel has been closed since mid march. to resume season here kicks off in march and then we usually have some very busy months until november but so far we were only able to make 10 percent of all your only earnings if it goes on like this we'll have a loss of 90 percent. and it's not just the hospitality business government revenues are also taking a hit due to the lack of tourists turkey's government will need to service an external debt of some $170000000000.00 by the end of the year the turkish lira has now tumbled around 15 percent against the u.s. dollar since the beginning of the year. meanwhile turkey's president recha type at all one has blamed the iran's plunge on foreign banks and he's calling on citizens to nato to those in need during the pandemic a little comfort for those who've lost their jobs the cost of living is rising. kissin nicholas my weekly shopping was less than 150 now i need 300 lire and still not enough everything is so expensive. i suffered a lot my compan

the once bustling streets in istanbul's world famous hooten ahmed neighborhood are empty and the mussels will tell has been closed since mid march. to resume season here kicks off in march and then we usually have some very busy months until november but so far we were only able to make 10 percent of all your early earnings if it goes on like this will have a loss of 90 percent. and it's not just the hospitality business government revenues are also taking a hit due to the lack of tourists turkey's government will need to service an external debt of some $170000000000.00 by the end of the year the turkish lira has now tumbled around 15 percent against the u.s. dollar since the beginning of the year in this time of crisis and uncertainty a lot of your masters are opting for much safer currencies which is obviously the u.s. dollar at the moment so that's one channel through which the lira has lost value against the dollar the 2nd one however is turkey's on its own. economic wallner abilities and turkey got caught up in this crisis it's a very fragile state already gave it a recurrence just