currency exchanges all freeze private that's it uncertainty looms over the streets here and panic isn't so far away economist mustafa's in mess thinks the government should step in immediately and increase interest rates. the country has to pay up to two hundred thirty billion dollars in foreign debt over the next two months. you won't be able to raise this much money with low interest rates if anyone at all wants to invest in such a fragile system right now in the end turkey will have to look for help from the i.m.f. . for tourists these days turkey is a shopping paradise the fall of the turkish lira saw prices tumble. that is if you're paying in europe or dollars. there are long lines in front of