Tuesday, July 10, 2018

Meet the 40-Year-Old Erdogan Son-in-Law Running Turkey’s Economy - Bloomberg

Meet the 40-Year-Old Erdogan Son-in-Law Running Turkey’s Economy
By Onur Ant
July 10, 2018, 3:08 PM GMT+2 Updated on July 10, 2018, 4:16 PM GMT+2

PhD in finance? Check. Graduate school in the U.S.? Check. Experience as a corporate executive? Check.

On the face of it, Turkey’s 40-year-old economy czar Berat Albayrak has many of the traits that ensured his predecessors were respected by investors. Yet his appointment as Turkey’s chief economic policy maker on Monday caused the biggest bloodbath in Turkey’s financial markets since a failed military coup two years ago.

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