And triggered panic among both tourists and locals. We ran out from our house twice two times. Everyone ran out because the quakes were very strong. And uneasy is no stranger to earth quakes its situated in whats known as the Pacific Ring Of Fire an arc of volcanoes and full lines in the Pacific Basin this is the second shot for long back in the space of a week the island still reeling after a deadly quake last sunday all runs government has announced major steps to ease Foreign Exchange transactions and allow rain ians to bring in hard currency and gold allow us to combat the expected effects of the new u. S. Sanctions due to start this week with an increasingly angry population and the economy just limping along this may all be too little too late. There for six days in a row now iranians have taken to the street in protest in cities across the country theyre angry about high prices and the government. Big issues irans politicians are leading the country into ruin but mismanagement a
ministers. that in turn caused the lira to slide to a record low against the u.s. dollar continuing and already existing trends take a look at this. as you can see the number of turkish lira you need to buy a dollar has been rising since the beginning of the year but in august of record was set five turkish lira and now by new just one u.s. dollar on surprisingly on the streets of istanbul the mood is far from upbeat. things aren t going in a good direction it s terrible that one u.s. dollar is now worth five lire we are ready have financial problems and i don t approve of it things will get worse that s what we re expecting. turkey s dispute with washington isn t the only factor affecting its economic prospects concerns over the independence of the country s central bank president ed one s ability to