From our correspondent in Istanbul
It was Recep Tayyip Erdogan's hobbyhorse.
The reason for his political rise.
Eighteen years after the rise to power of his Islamo-conservative AKP party, the Turkish president has failed to revive his country's long-prosperous economy.
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While the Turkish lira collapses, that investments are at a standstill, that his geopolitical provocations shake foreign markets, Erdogan sacrifices his men for lack of a solution.
In the space of last weekend, two heads fell one after the other.
That, first, of the governor of the central bank, Murat Uysal, whose dismissal was made public by decree in
the Official Journal
, then that of the son-in-law of Erdogan and Minister of the Economy, Berat Albayrak, including the "Sultan "Accepted the resignation, announced on Instagram"
for health reasons
", only 24 hours later.
"
The hecatomb is symptomatic of the turmoil in the Turkish economy, but also of centralization
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