HALISTER1: Main Opposition Leader Says Turkey Europe’s Top Money Launderer

Main Opposition Leader Says Turkey Europe’s Top Money Launderer

(Bloomberg) -- Net errors and omissions in current account data used to launder money, Turkey’s main opposition CHP leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu says, speaking at CHP lawmakers at parliament in Ankara.
  • Kilicdaroglu accuses govt of turning blind eye to attacks of Islamic State that killed hundreds of people before moving against it last August
  • Kilicdaroglu accuses govt of jailing 221,607 people in a “counter-coup” following last July’s botched putsch
  • More than 150 journalists remain jailed, Turkey “world’s biggest jailer of journalists”
  • No separation of powers left in Turkey; Turkish democracy in oxygen tent
  • NOTE: Net errors & omissions inflows to Turkey were $11.1b in 2016, according to central bank data. They turned negative in 1Q, posting outflows of $2.17b

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