On Thursday, Turkish Finance Minister Nureddin Nebti blamed foreign parties for the recent financial attacks that targeted his country. In an interview with the “Without Borders” program, on the Qatari “Al-Jazeera” channel, he stressed the continuation of the Justice and Development government to address the interventions in the country. In response to the decline in the value of the Turkish lira, he said, “As you know, some foreign parties began in December to launch a campaign once morest Turkey, and that campaign contributed to the increase in the value of the dollar in the country, and this we consider an accidental matter resulting from a campaign hostile to us, which is not permanent and will not continue.”
He pointed out that “the state, with all its institutions, is doing what is necessary in order to confront these malicious campaigns, and those interventions that we know their source and where they come from, and therefore we are addressing them through several ways,” explaining that “the measures announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which aim to protect Deposits in the local currency, the lira, according to the value of the dollar, are considered very important measures that revealed that the recent case in which the Turkish lira witnessed a decline in its value was a casual and not realistic case.
The Minister of Finance added, “Since last December 20, we have witnessed a significant increase in the volume of bank deposits in lira, and this has been well received by investors in Turkish banks. How much confidence do Turkish citizens have in the fiscal policy of their elected government? He believed that “this new mechanism is considered a very attractive opportunity for investors, and the Islamic participatory banks have participated in these procedures and measures to benefit themselves and their depositors as they keep pace with legal transformations quickly.”
In the context of the new measures, he explained, “We abolished the wage tax and presented very important bills to facilitate these procedures within two weeks only, and Parliament worked and is still working for this new banking system.” He stressed that “this reflects the confidence of citizens in the presidential system and in the government’s financial policy, and that citizens’ interest in these measures, and in the Turkish lira, is very positive.”
In response to a question regarding the source of the financial attack once morest Turkey, he said, “These foreign entities are known, but the tools they use are different this time, because they have started using individual investors and they want to direct them to act collectively by spreading rumors and lies and using forged documents.” “They tried to direct public opinion to make citizens withdraw their savings from banks,” he added, refusing to disclose “these parties.”
Source: Russia Today
