IslamicFinance.de

State-owned Ziraat Bank has interest in buying the Islamic bank Bank Asya. Yet nothing is official just now, according to Ziraat Bank, a state owned bank. The move would allow Ziraat to enter the Islamic banking market. The Turkish government would also like to change the banks’ capital structure that is controlled by Gülen supporters. Bank Asya has been the subject of focus since the Turkish media reported that state-owned companies and institutional depositors loyal to Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo?an had withdrawn around 4 billion Turkish Liras in the wake of the Dec. 17, 2013, graft probe.