Mehmet Şimşek

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan never ceases to amaze me. Just as I was thinking he had set a new standard in damaging the economy by attacking the Central Bank, he raised the bar by announcing a vast debt amnesty.

The construction of Istanbul’s third airport will start in June, according to the finance minister, confirming media reports on May 28.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s sharp criticism of the Central Bank over its interest rate policy has exposed a split among Turkey’s top economic managers, who are divided over the limits to interference in the bank’s independence.