It is a long-standing cliché in Turkey that the reason the Turkish economy has traditionally proved so durable and dynamic is because Turkey is such a tough training ground. Businesses that thrive there have learned survival the hard way and are game for anything.
On recent evidence, that is a truism few would deny. In little over a year, Turkey has seen two general elections, more terrorist attacks than the rest of Europe combined that have all but destroyed the country's tourism sector, and a failed military coup that threatened to throw the political landscape into chaos. On top of this came a change of central bank governor, heralding a new fiscal strategy.
