EFTA Document EFTA01451019

"Things are only going to go downhill from here," Aleksei Belkin, who helps manage about $4.5 billion in assets as chief investment officer at Kapital Asset Management LLC in Moscow, said by phone. "The Turkish market now combines investors' worst fears: political uncertainty and the current-account deficit." The government projects the current-account deficit will widen to 7.1 percent of gross domestic product for 2013 from 6.1 percent a year earlier. When the gap jumped to a record 10