Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said on May 30 that Turkish authorities decision to take over Bank Asya was not political. ““If it was political, why would [the government] wait for one and a half years?” he said.
Turkish authorities have said late May 29 they had decided to take over Bank Asya, the Islamic lender caught up in a feud between President Tayyip Erdoğan and U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gülen.