ISTANBUL — Turkey’s finance minister, Berat Albayrak, the son-in-law of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, announced his resignation Sunday evening amid escalating fallout over the country’s collapsing economy and plunging currency.
Over the weekend, #Turkey's central bank governor & minister of treasury & finance left office. Back in 2013, the former was the deputy CEO of #Halkbank & the latter the CEO of #AktifBank's corporate parent #ÇalıkHolding, two banks implicated in #Iran's sanctions evasion schemes. pic.twitter.com/GtP1jghbaR
— Aykan Erdemir (@aykan_erdemir) November 8, 2020
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