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{{Infobox company
| name = Türk Ticaret Bankası
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| type = [[Bank]]
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| foundation = 1913
| defunct  = 9 August 2002
| location = [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]]
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| industry = [[Banking]]
| products = [[Financial services]]
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| parent = [[TMSF]]
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| homepage = [http://www.turkticaretbankasi.com.tr/ www.turkticaretbankasi.com.tr]
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'''Türk Ticaret Bankası A.Ş''' (TTB, {{langx|en|'''Turkish Trade Bank'''}}), also known as '''Türkbank''', was founded in 1913 in [[Adapazarı]] by private investors as a [[regional bank]] under the name of ''Adapazarı İslam Ticaret Bankası''. It was renamed ''Türk Ticaret Bankası A.Ş'' in 1937, and relocated its head office to [[Istanbul]] in 1952.<ref name=TBB/><ref name="a1"/>
Türkbank was taken over by the Turkish Treasury in 1994 after the bank was weakened by the Turkish financial crisis of the time.<ref name="h1"/> After a [[Türkbank scandal|privatization scandal]] in the late 1990s, which caused the collapse of the [[55th government of Turkey|government]] of [[Mesut Yılmaz]], resulted in the planned privatization to fail, the bank went into liquidation on 9 August 2002.<ref name=TBB/><ref name="a1"/>
== See also ==
{{Portal|Banks}}
[[Türkbank scandal]]
==References==
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<ref name="h1">{{cite news |newspaper=[[Hurriyet Daily News]] |date=5 August 1998 |url=http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/default.aspx?pageid=438&n=korkmaz-yigit-bids-highest-for-turkbank-stake-1998-08-05 |title=Korkmaz Yigit bids highest for Turkbank stake }}</ref>
<ref name=TBB>{{cite web |publisher=TBB |url=http://en.tbb.org.tr/Dosyalar/userfiles/file/%C4%B0statistik-%C4%B0ngilizce%20site/Historical%20data/Historical%20Data%20about%20Closed%20Banks.xls |title=Historical Data about Closed Banks }}</ref>
<ref name="a1">{{cite news |url=http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/kapak/resmen-hortumlanan-banka_508336 |newspaper=[[Aksiyon]] |title="Resmen" hortumlanan banka |date=2001-12-22 |language=Turkish |accessdate=2014-11-30 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205090510/http://www.aksiyon.com.tr/kapak/resmen-hortumlanan-banka_508336 |archivedate=2014-12-05 }}</ref>
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==External links==
* [http://www.atin.org/detail.asp?cmd=articledetail&articleid=199 Transcripts] of leaked conversations between Turkbank bid winner [[Korkmaz Yiğit]] and mafia boss [[Alaattin Çakıcı]]
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