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22 December 2017
EM Currency Handbook 2018: Still Fuel in the Tank
Turkey
The Turkish lira (TRW was first introduced in 1927 and
replaced the Ottoman lira which had been in circulation
since 1844. After persistently high inflation from the
1970s to the 1990s, the lira was replaced by 'the New
Turkish Lira' (TRY) on 1st January 2005 at a rate of
1 TRY = 1.000,000 TRL. Following a four-year transition
period, the 'new' marking was removed and its official
name has again become 'the Turkish lira'. A three-year
disinflation program was launched in 2000 which
envisaged two different FX regimes. The first was a
fixed exchange rate regime that incorporated daily
announcement of a currency basket (formed of USD
and EUR) until June 2001. The second regime,
implemented between July 2001 and December 2003,
entailed introduction of a crawling peg regime against
the same basket. However, the program had to be
abandoned during the 2001 crisis and the lira is now a
fully floating currency with no target levels.
The primary objective of the Central Bank of the
Republic of Turkey (CBRT) is to achieve and maintain
price stability, while the Bank also considers financial
stability as a vital component for achieving its objective.
Furthermore, as long as not in conflict with the primary
objective of price stability, the CBRT also supports the
growth and employment policies of the government.
The CBRT adopted inflation targeting first implicitly
between 2002 and 2005. and then formally since 2006.
The target for 2015 and 2016 is 5.0% (+/- 2%). The
CBRT is organized as follows: the Bank is led by a
board, which consists of a Governor and six members.
The Board oversees the Monetary Policy Committee
(MPC), which consists of seven members, and is led by
the Governor of the Central Bank. The Committee
meets 8 times a year to set the policy rates.
The CBRT intervenes directly or through flexible
auctions in the market, in case of unhealthy price
formation. The Bank purchased FX through daily
auctions until July 2011, with the aim of building up
reserves. Since August 2011. the CBRT sold FX at daily
auctions with the aim of supporting the lira. At times of
severe market stress the CBRT directly intervene by
selling USD to the market. Since December 2014, the
CBRT has been selling FX directly to BOTAS, the state
energy importer, on a monthly basis to avoid undue
volatility in the FX market. Since January 2017. the
Bank has also been conducting one-week FX swap
auctions to release FX liquidity to the system. CBT has
also launched TRY-settled forward FX sale auctions
since November to support FX hedging efforts of the
corporate sector. The lira is fully convertible and
deliverable. Spot is generally quoted in USD/TRY, but
EUR/TRY is regularly traded and other crosses such as
TRY/ZAR and TRY/ILS are also quoted and traded..
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