Turkey’s main opposition said on Monday that the resignation of Finance Minister Berat Albayrak in a statement on Instagram was unprecedented and amounted to a “state crisis”, while also criticizing the surprise removal of the central bank governor. Albayrak’s resignation, citing health reasons, came a day after President Tayyip Erdogan, his father in-law, appointed former finance minister Naci Agbal to replace former bank chief Murat Uysal. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, the leader of the Republican People’s Party (CHP), Kemal Kilicdaroglu, said that Erdogan was running the country like a “family company”, adding that the central bank had lost its independence.
