Turkey's Cluster Munitions Question and a Peg Board That Ends the Week Flat

The dirham finished the week at 3.6725. The riyal finished at 3.7500. Neither number has moved in any meaningful sense this year, and neither moved today — but that is the point of an evening wrap in mid-August: to record what did not happen alongside what did, and to ask whether the two are related.

The story that walked into the weekend was not a print or a barrel. It was a request. Ankara asked Washington for clearance to send Kyiv tens of thousands of cluster munitions that have sat in Turk…