Ankara turns blind eye to economic downturn - Al-Monitor : the Pulse of the Middle East
▻http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/07/turkey-economic-sound-alarm.html#
While Turkey’s revenues are decreasing, the burden of Syrian and Iraqi refugees has opened a virtual “black hole” in the economy. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan put the refugees’ bill at $6 billion, in a reproachful speech to foreign ambassadors in Ankara on July 9. “We are currently hosting 2 million people, including 300,000 from Iraq and 1.7 million from Syria,” he said. “The money we have spent for Syrians so far has exceeded $6 billion. But we have received only $400 million [in support] from international sources. Yet we’ll never withdraw our helping hand.”
La #turquie commence à payer le prix fort de sa diplomatie aventuriste, en particulier autour de la question des réfugiés qui commence à agiter de plus en plus l’opinion aux dires des spécialistes (voir ici ▻http://seenthis.net/messages/392393).