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ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan named deputy central bank Governor Fatih Karahan as Turkey’s novel central bank governor, the official gazette stated early on Saturday.
Karahan’s appointment came hours after central bank governor Hafize Gaye Erkan introduced her resignation on Friday night on X, citing in piece a have to provide protection to her family amid a “reputation assassination”.
Fatih Karahan, 42, has a University of Pennsylvania economics PhD and worked as an economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Current York for nearly a decade, per his biography on the central bank online net page.
Karahan additionally taught as an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Current York University and worked for Amazon (NASDAQ:) as a first-rate economist in 2022.
Erdogan had appointed Karahan as thought to be one of many three novel deputy governors to the central bank in July last yr.
