our correspondent giuliani joins us now from istanbul julia the current virus crisis has surely furthering dampened hopes that the u.s. fall will be stopped any sign that it will. the president and his finance minister are trying to brush off concerns over the weakening lira saying that the fluctuations against dollar and euro are only temporary and the economy would emerge stronger many analysts however disagree they say the current pattern in the layer above all reflects a lack of credibility over our economic policy over the past 12 months we've seen foreign investors pulling out launch of a huge volume of funds from the country now add to this the current crisis in tourism tourism revenues are an important source of foreign currency for turkey but arrivals were down 75 percent in the 1st 6 months of 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and international travel restrictions so now some hope this might change in orcus to some countries like russia would germany have fully or partially lifted their travel warnings for tacky but the damage has been done the crisis has left a huge g