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Turkey credit.

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Turkey’s banks continue to see strong appetite for credit, the chief executive of the country’s largest lender by assets said, amid a push by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to spur loan growth and boost the economy ahead of 2019 elections. Ziraat Bank CEO Huseyin Aydin also said the unlisted lender saw 5 percent growth in assets in the first quarter of the year. “Ziraat Bank recorded 5 percent growth in cash loans and assets in the first quarter,” Aydin said in comments that were released yesterday. “Loan supply and demand continues. There are people and institutio­ns demanding loans,” he said. Aydin is also head of the Banks Associatio­n of Turkey industry group.

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