Babacan: ‘We are one government’

Since 2002, Ali Babacan has earned Turkey’s government the trust of markets. But what can the ruling party’s economy chief say to reassure investors now, after some government members’ attacks on the local financial sector? The answers are not all encouraging.

Ali Babacan, Turkey’s deputy prime minister in charge of economic and financial affairs
Ali Babacan, Turkey’s deputy prime minister in charge of economic and financial affairs

Ali Babacan has an affable manner and a courteous approach to visitors. His English is almost perfect; he speaks of financial matters with ease. It is an agreeable welcome from a man at the core of Turkey’s moderately Islamist ruling AK Party, the country’s deputy prime minister in charge of economic and financial affairs. But Babacan and his party’s decade-long honeymoon in government might be nearing an end, despite their still enjoying overwhelming electoral support.

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