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隨著夏天接近尾聲，土耳其正在衡量該國關鍵的旅遊業在此艱難一年的損失，一連串恐怖爆炸案以及跟莫斯科方面的外交爭端，嚴重削弱土國旅遊業。

With summer drawing to a close, Turkey is counting the cost of a tough year that saw a string of terrorist bombings and the fallout from a diplomatic spat with Moscow that cut deep into the country's crucial tourist trade.

土耳其未遂政變對該國經濟形成衝擊，也連帶影響到旅遊業。歐新社

今年仲夏的流產軍事政變造成270人喪生，隨後實施的緊急狀態及逮捕跟解雇數以萬計政變同情者後，土耳其的經濟情勢變得更不穩定。

And then right bang in the middle of summer, the economic backdrop got more precarious after an attempted military coup that saw more than 270 people killed, the imposition of a state of emergency and the subsequent arrest and dismissal of thousands of supposed sympathizers.

土耳其副總理希姆謝克承認，7月15日的失敗政變及其後果已「削弱」經濟，即便他對整體情勢面對逆境時所展現的韌性表示讚揚。

Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek conceded the failed coup on July 15 and its aftermath have "weakened" the economy even as he praised its resilience in the face of such adversity.

旅遊業已受到經濟下滑衝擊。對土國這個不斷需要外匯來填補日益擴大經常帳缺口的國家，該產業是個極其重要的外匯收入來源。

Tourism, a crucial foreign-currency earner for a country in constant need of foreign currency to plug a yawning current account deficit, has borne the brunt of the economic fallout.

外國遊客今年7月在土耳其伊斯坦堡自拍。美聯社

土耳其去年擊落一架俄羅斯戰機引起兩國外交風波後，俄羅斯遊客數量急劇下滑89%。俄國是土耳其的第二大遊客來源，號稱土耳其旅遊之都的安塔利亞等地，在2014年有450萬俄羅斯人造訪。

That's mainly due to a precipitous 89 percent drop in Russian tourist arrivals after a diplomatic fallout between the two countries brought on by Turkey's downing of a Russian warplane last year. Russia was Turkey's second-largest tourist market with 4.5 million people visiting places like Turkey's tourism capital Antalya in 2014.

土耳其旅行社協會TURSAB秘書長古坤指出，由於許多俄羅斯人到別處度假，土耳其旅遊業營收在年底前將損失80億到100億美元。再多的政策應變都無法完全填補這個缺口。

With many Russians holidaying elsewhere, Turkey stands to lose between $8 and $10 billion in tourism revenue by the end of the year, according to Cetin Gurcun, Secretary General Turkey's travel agency association TURSAB. No amount of deals could fully plug that gap.

俄土關係近來不斷回溫，圖為兩國元首在本月初杭州G20峰會上熱烈交談的畫面。路透

古坤告訴美聯社說：「若我們考量俄羅斯市場的數量，填補這一空隙並不容易。」

"If we consider the volume of the Russian market, it's not easy to fill the void," Gurcun told The Associated Press.

土俄關係目前雖重回正軌，但古坤並不預期俄羅斯市場會在明年之前反彈。

Turkey-Russia relations are now back on track, but Gurcun doesnt expect the Russian market to rebound before next year.

說文解字看新聞：

俚語draw to a close意指「漸漸結束、告一段落」，即finish off或to come to an end之意，單字close可以用end代替。例句： As the 15-minute telephone interview drew to a close, the consultant issued her recommendations.（當15分鐘的電話採訪接近尾聲時，該名顧問提出了她的建議。）