MALCOLM BRABANT:

President Erdogan has never been reticent about using the term terrorist. And he did so after the Turkish currency dived against the U.S. dollar earlier this year. He said, you know that the economy is being manipulated by those whose objective is to attack Turkey.

He said there is no difference at all between a terrorist who has a weapon in his hand and a terrorist who has a dollar or euro in his pocket. They, he said, use currency as a weapon.

Turkey's president is bolstered by cheerleaders in the press. Among them, Abdurrahman Dilipak, a columnist with an Islamist tabloid newspaper who we met in the executive suite a at the Istanbul Stock Exchange.

He believes there's international backing for FETO, an organization accused by Turkey of orchestrating last summer's coup attempt against President Erdogan.