Who Will Be Turkey’s Next Finance Minister? Doesn’t Matter

Who in their right mind would want to be Turkey’s finance minister? The country’s economy is bleeding from years of abuse at the hands of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and most analysts agree that any chance of healing the wounds has been lost with his reelection.  

The scuttlebutt from Ankara is that former finance minister and deputy prime minister Mehmet Simsek is being lined up for the job as economic czar. But if he joins Erdogan’s new cabinet, expected to be announced tomorrow, it will mark a triumph of hope over experience.