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Turks set huge corporate rescue in motion: Turkey''s banks undertake their biggest financial rescue operation in the country''s history in an effort to shake off a plague of bad debts. (Western Europe: Turkey).

Publication: The Banker
Publication Date: 01-FEB-03
Format: Online - approximately 764 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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Turkey's banks are restructuring the debts of 350 financially troubled industrial corporations in the biggest corporate bail-out in the nation's history, bankers say.

The development comes at a time of increased concern about whether the government can sustain the country's heavy domestic...

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...borrowing amid increasing interest rates on government bonds and treasury bills, critical negotiations to solve the Cyprus problem and rising fears that the US may drag Turkey into a conflict with Iraq.

Under the rescue package, dubbed the "Istanbul approach", as much as $7.5bn in corporate bank debts will be rescheduled, say bankers. The programme is designed to get Turkey's economy moving again, to help the country's 55 banks recover non-performing...

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