{"id":1510,"date":"2018-08-16T03:39:34","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T03:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euromenaenergy.com\/?p=1510"},"modified":"2018-08-16T03:39:34","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T03:39:34","slug":"qatar-to-invest-15-billion-in-turkey-source-says-banks-the-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/?p=1510","title":{"rendered":"Qatar to invest $15 billion in Turkey; source says banks the focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA (Reuters) &#8211; Qatar pledged $15 billion (\u00a311.8 billion) of investment in Turkey on Wednesday<\/p>\n<p>that a government source in Ankara said would be channelled into its banks and financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>The investment package was announced after Qatar\u2019s Emir Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani met President Tayyip Erdogan in the capital, as Turkey grapples with a collapsing lira and a worsening commercial and political standoff with NATO ally the United States.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"DPSlot_container StandardArticleBody_dp-slot-inline\" data-ad-type=\"other\">\n<div id=\"dpslot_canvas_11553082_UKKBN1L01NR\" class=\"DPSlot_ad-container\" data-google-query-id=\"CJKmlJbS8NwCFZIC0wodSIYL4w\">The currency has lost nearly 40 percent against the dollar this year, driven by worries over Erdogan\u2019s growing influence on the economy and his repeated calls for lower interest rates despite high inflation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Its precipitous decline has raised concerns about the resilience of Turkey\u2019s banking sector and caused ructions on global markets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANKARA (Reuters) &#8211; Qatar pledged $15 billion (\u00a311.8 billion) of investment in Turkey on Wednesday that a government source in Ankara said would be channelled into its banks and financial markets. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[46,57,90,96,107,137,139,160,174,184,201,202,209,232,233,244,246,249,256,267,277,279,288],"class_list":["post-1510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-aramco","tag-baroudi","tag-democracy","tag-doha","tag-embargo","tag-gas","tag-gazprom","tag-international-maritime-disputes","tag-lebanon","tag-maritime-disputes","tag-offshore","tag-oil","tag-opec","tag-putin","tag-qatar","tag-rosneft","tag-roudi","tag-russia","tag-saudi","tag-straddling-hydrocarbons-reserves","tag-total","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emimer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}