Foreign capital expected to flee Turkey; Erdogan's wrath may worsen situation
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FRESH from an election victory that secured his party's rule for four years, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu in January assured investors in London that Turkey was a safe place for their cash. Four months later, he was forced to resign and two months on from that, F-16 fighter jets bombed parliament in a coup attempt.
Already embroiled in Syria's war, a conflict with the Kurds and beset by a string of terrorist attacks, Friday's failed plot to topple President Recep Tayyip Erdogan risks shattering what's left of Turkey's image as a stable country that can attract enough investment to finance one of the highest current account deficits among G-20 economies.
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