why would political involvement in a central bank be particulararly hazarardous? gareth: we have seen with erdogan before, he said he does not believe inin interest, he thinks high ininrest rates cause hi i inflation, whwhich goes against economic orthodoxy foster w we know the best w wayo stem the imamaging of the tuturh lira is toto hikintetere rates.. there e are other thingss wheree need strong measures such as a height in inches -- hike in interest rates. we are 100% confident the reason they cannot do that is erdogan himself. christoph: mr. erdogan says the crisis is part of an economic war with the united states. u.s. president donald trump triggered last week's events by doubling the import tariffs for turkish steel and aluminum. would you agree that this is economic war againinst turkey by the united states? garethth: no, i think the doublg of the tariffs on aluminum and steel l was a criticalal decisi, but what we have b been -we have been waiting for somethingng to happen i in the turkisish e ecoy for quite a long time. the expectation was it was goiog