NNA - The Turkish lira slid 0.9% against the dollar on Wednesday, bringing its losses to 22% this year, after worries about a surge in inflation were fuelled by President Tayyip Erdogan's pledge to keep cutting interest rates.

The lira stood at 16.93 against the U.S. currency at 0611 GMT, weakening from Tuesday's close of 16.7650 towards a record low which it hit on Dec. 20 in a currency crisis triggered by a series of unorthodox interest rates cuts.--Reuters 

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