Although some people who oppose Ankara’s current ruling regime think that collapse of the lira is a development that shows how bad the regime is…I wonder if this has actually become regime policy now. Erode the lira, create a crises, concentrate power, get opposition to migrate
Other regimes destroyed their currency and country and cling to power, Venezuela is one example; Iran is another, and there are more. A currency crises will erode the middle class and moderates stoke extremism, accelerate concentration of economic power around regime cronies
Fascism rose from economic crisis. Ankara is one of the most far-right xenophobic, authoritarian regimes in the world so it’s path is not without consequences. Migration crisis, war and other things can occur next.
On the one hand the current regime came to power with economic credentials but almost two decades later or may have other goals.
I return to the example of Venezuela, the regime purposely destroyed the country to concentrate power and get opposition middle and upper class and old elites to leave.
The Ankara regime is not dumb and it has a close knit leadership circle, having removed, jailed, vilified and neutralized not only all opposition but also it’s former allies it has reached new peaks of arrogance and stages…since the lira keeps weakening one has to ask if it goal
I think of Mussolini’s regime and its various “battles”…perhaps the failed inspiration for the Ankara regime is this nonsense, and the Mussolini regime endured for 20 years too; which illustrates how deeply destructive the Ankara regime is as it remains in power 
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