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How big a worry is Turkey?

The plunge in the lira which began in May now looks certain to push the Turkish economy into recession and it may well trigger a banking crisis. This would be another blow for EMs as an asset class, but the wider economic spillovers should be fairly modest, even for the euro-zone.

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