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One hopes IMF missions don’t leave such mayhem every time they depart a struggling country. Just after a Washington team quit Turkey in early July the treasury minister shot himself (happily not fatally), and the deputy treasury under-secretary resigned, quoting national poet Nazim Hikmet.
The reasons are still quite obscure. Ex-treasury minister Hikmet Ulugbay (with his jaw in plaster) blamed overwork after three weeks of IMF arm-wrestling.
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