(Istanbul Composite Electric) Turkey's economic problems, the inflation rate is high, President Erdogo relocated financial officials, and issued a decree on Saturday to expel Ding Chel, director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Dingcchel is not the first financial official for Erdogan's fired.Since July 2019, Erdogan has fired three governors of central banks.
The Statistics Bureau announced in early January that Turkey's inflation rate last year was as high as 36.1%, the highest record in 19 years.
The data irritated the pro -government and the opposition camp.The opposition claims that the data has been underestimated, claiming that the increase in actual living costs is at least twice the release of the data.
At the same time, it is reported that the data released by Erdogon's criticism of the Statistics Bureau exaggerated the scale of Turkey's economy.Erdogan also opposed healed interest rates. He believes that this will lead to inflation, but this is actually the opposite of traditional economic thinking.
Ding Chey, who faced the pressure of all parties, seemed to have expected that it would be expelled.In an interview with newspapers earlier this month, he said: "I am sitting in this office now, and tomorrow will be someone else. No matter who is the director, you think hundreds of colleagues in my colleagues to the announcement of the inflation and them are with them.Can they endure or remain silent? I have a responsibility to the 84 million population. "
Erdogan has appointed Cherite Cama, who has been appointed as the vice chairman of the Turkish banking regulatory agencyHe is the director of the National Bureau of Statistics.
Ash, a Lanwan Asset Management Company, said in a report to customers: "This will only increase concerns about data reliability, especially everyone has worried about the formulation of economic policy."
The Bureau of Statistics will announce the inflation data on January on February 3.A survey launched by Reuters on Friday shows that the inflation rate in Turkey in January may be as high as 47%, which is a high position in the past 20 years.