ANKARA, Turkey — The Turkish economy will contract by as much as 1.8% this year, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has forecast.
The prediction came in a week that saw opposition newspapers deploring the soaring cost of vegetables, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s blaming the price rises on speculators whom he likened to “terrorists” and opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu’s scoffing at Turkey’s having to import onions from Egypt.
