Abstract
This paper examines the sustainability of current account deficit in Turkey with the help of an annual and a monthly data set covering the period 1923-2019 and 2008:1-2020:8, respectively. The data set is divided into subperiods and is implemented various traditional and breakpoint unit root tests, cointegration analysis and error correction models (ECM). The findings reveal that the export and import series are cointegrated for all of subperiods, and that the current account deficit is sustainable in Turkey in a weak form. This study employs a comprehensive approach by implementing miscellaneous econometric analysis on the data set to contribute the current literature on current account deficit in Turkey. As to our policy recommendation, in order to sustain it in strong form or close, reducing the share of imported inputs in the production, granting incentives to exporting firms and import substituted production should be encouraged.