War & Reconstruction · event 11 of 13

2019

The collapse, and the streets. The currency and the banking system fail. The lira loses around 98 per cent of its value and depositors are locked out of their savings; the World Bank ranks it among the three most severe economic collapses anywhere since the mid-nineteenth century. In October hundreds of thousands of people from every sect fill the streets demanding the removal of the entire political class. Nothing changes.

The War & Reconstruction era

  1. 1975
  2. 1976
  3. 1982
  4. 1983
  5. 1989
  6. 1991
  7. 1994
  8. 2005
  9. 2006
  10. 2011
  11. 2019
  12. 2020
  13. 2023

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