Turkey's national currency has plummeted 45% against the dollar this year
The lira has flirted with record lows this week, but Turkey's long-time leader is pressing ahead with his "economic war of independence", backed up by low interest rates.
"Everything is so expensive," Sevim Yildirim told the BBC at a local fruit market. "It's impossible even to cook a main course for a family with these prices." In the past two years he has sacked three central bank presidents and only this week replaced his finance minister. And so the lira continues to drop.Soaring prices
Tomato prices were up 75% in August, compared with the year before, according to the chamber of commerce in the south coast agricultural hub of Antalya.
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