ANKARA, March 20 (Reuters) – Turkey’s former deputy prime minister answerable for the financial system, Mehmet Simsek, mentioned on Monday that he’s not taken with lively politics, whereas the AK Get together mentioned President Tayyip Erdogan had not supplied him a publish once they met.
Sources told Reuters final week that Erdogan wished to offer a high function in working the financial system to Simsek, who is very regarded in worldwide circles, and that the occasion’s draft election manifesto marked a return to extra orthodox, free market financial insurance policies.
After assembly Erdogan on Monday, Simsek mentioned he was prepared to offer the required assist in his space. “However as a consequence of my work at international monetary establishments, I’m not pondering of going into lively politics,” he wrote on Twitter.
AKP spokesperson Omer Celik mentioned Erdogan and Simsek mentioned current developments and insurance policies. “If he most well-liked lively politics, all of the mechanisms, duties of our occasion could be open to Mr. Mehmet,” Celik advised reporters.
Erdogan didn’t make a proposal to Simsek relating to a ministry, vice presidency or chief adviser place on Monday, Celik mentioned.
Turkey is because of maintain presidential and parliamentary elections on Might 14 and opinion polls present that Erdogan will face his greatest electoral problem but in his twenty years in energy.
Erdogan’s recognition has suffered primarily as a consequence of an erosion of residing requirements attributable to the depreciation within the Turkish lira at a time when Ankara started pursuing a controversial financial mannequin that was primarily based on low rates of interest.
Reporting by Ali Kucukgocmen; Modifying by Alison Williams
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