Economic Growth and Forecasts: August 2024

Recession in the Second Quarter

Ozan Bakış, Tarık Kocar

In light of the fully-released April, May and June leading indicators, we expect the Turkish economy to shrink by 0.6 percent in the second quarter of 2024 compared to the same quarter of the previous year. According to seasonal and calendar-adjusted data, we forecast quarter-onquarter GDP decline to be 0.7 percent.

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