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“Domestic” political thriller, with the country’s economy in red. The Finance Minister, the president’s son-in-law, announced his resignation through social networks. The news was “buried” with information about a hacker attack. The reason for the controversy.
A “mill” seems to prevail between Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and the apparently former finance minister of the country and his son-in-law, Berat Albayrak.
The Minister of Finance announced in an extremely strange way for the political scene of the neighboring country, that is, via Instagram, his resignation for health reasons.
With an unusual style and with a clear religious characterization, Albayrak announced that it was time to leave the Ministry of Finance and spend more time with his family, after a five-year term on the main political stage (formerly Minister of Energy). “We hope that God blesses our end”, concluded his message.
However, immediately afterwards, the news began to circulate in the Turkish media that the resignation was invalid and that Albayrak’s social media pages had been accepted. hacker attack. At the same time, his Twitter account appeared to have been deleted.
In fact, after a while a new Twitter account appeared under the name of Berat Albayrak, in which the Turkish Finance Minister allegedly denied the news and spoke about a hacker attack and reported that he would make official statements in a short time.
It should be noted that a website that deals with news verification in Turkey points out that this account is also fake.
A quote the reason for resignation?
However, the Turkish opposition media, as well as international agencies such as Bloomberg and Reuters, reported that Albayrak’s resignation was confirmed by sources in the Turkish Ministry of Finance.
Tayyip Erdogan’s son-in-law is said to be upset that he was not asked about the appointment of Nasi Agbal as the new governor of the Central Bank of Turkey.
This resignation comes at an explosive moment for the Turkish economy, which is in the red as the pound falls, but also after the United States vote that is changing the balance at the diplomatic level.
Internal negotiations and silence from the media?
At the same time, Cumhuriyet, who has had an open front with Erdogan for years, is harboring a juicy scenario in which the president held a heated dialogue with his son-in-law this morning about a change of leadership at the central bank and his resignation.
The newspaper assures that Tayyip Erdo .an will not accept the resignation and that Albayrak himself is betting on her.
For his part, Independet Türkçe points out that Fahrettin Altun, the communications officer of the Turkish presidency, is trying to keep the news out of the media, which is why the main Turkish networks such as state-owned Anadolu and TRT do not have it. it is still broadcast.
