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News of the resignation of Turkish Finance Minister and son-in-law of Recep Tayyip Erdogan Berat Albayrak is causing confusion.
Although the Turkish minister announced his resignation through social networks, shortly afterwards he announced on Twitter that his account had been hacked and that he would shortly make statements.
At the moment, his Twitter profile appears to be disabled. 
The pro-government newspaper Yeni κafak reported the news of Albayrak’s resignation, and no other media outlet, including the government-affiliated Anadolu news agency, reproduced the story.
At the same time, sources in the Turkish Ministry of Finance contacted by Bloomberg said they could neither confirm nor deny the news.
“I have decided that I can no longer continue in my position, which I have held for more than five years due to health problems. “Next season I will spend my time with my mother, my father, my wife and my children, whom I have neglected in recent years,” Berat Albayrak wrote previously.
The “beheading” of the governor of the Central Bank
Indeed, on Saturday it emerged that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan removed Turkish Central Bank Governor Murat Wisal from office … overnight, replacing him with former Finance Minister Naci Agbal, after the new low. that the Turkish pound fell.
The decision to replace Wisal was made by presidential decree and published in the Government Gazette of Turkey.
The Turkish lira closed at 8.5445 against the dollar on Friday after a record low of 8.58. It has weakened by 30% against the US dollar this year.
Wisal was appointed governor in July 2019, replacing Murat Cetinkaya.
Nachi Agbal served as finance minister from 2015 to 2018, when he was appointed head of the presidential budget and strategy department.
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