Politicians pontificate and observers oscillate between repeating the views of the last person and the next to share a confidence. It’s still the money men that mostly matter and determine the tide in the (business) affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads on to victory. Ten days before the Turkish Constitutional Court determined that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) had not been so naughty that it warranted disgrace and disbandment, most of the large international investment banks had come to the conclusion that the Istanbul market was a good place to be. On July 30, the court ordered the AKP to be docked half its state funding for the year as a “serious warning” about its perceived “anti-secular activities.” The talk of crisis and chaos subsided, the unlikely prospect of yet another military takeover passed into oblivion, the markets moved upward and the currency strengthened. Courting
