Turkey’s consumer confidence fell to 56.5, a 2 percent drop from June’s 57.6, the Diken news website reported on Tuesday.
Released by the country’s central bank and official statistics institute TurkStat, the index took a downward turn again after the improvement in June, which represented a 4 percent increase over the lowest level on record in May.
All the sub-indices declined, including household financial expectations, unemployment and savings.
Based on consumers’ assessment of the current economic situation as well as expectations regarding the future, the monthly index is calculated between 0 to 200 points, and any reading for the index below 100 is indicative of pessimism about the future.
May’s 55.3 was the lowest score since the data were first recorded in 2004, even breaking the earlier record of November 2008 at the height of a global financial crisis.