National Bank of Turkey

The National Bank of Turkey was a commercial bank in Turkey founded in 1909.[1] The majority capital came from founding shareholders Sir Ernest Cassel, Lord Revelstoke and Sir Alexander Henderson.[2] The initial impetus for the bank's creation came about as a result of the Young Turk Revolution.[3] The bank operated until 1931.[1]

  1. ^ a b Marian Kent (1975). Agent of Empire? The National Bank of Turkey and British Foreign Policy. The Historical Journal, 18, pp 367-389 doi:10.1017/ S0018246X00023736
  2. ^ John Burman Politics and Profit:The National Bank of Turkey Revisited Oriens (Brill) Vol.37 (2009) pp = 225-236 jstor= 25759078
  3. ^ Jonathan Conlin (2016): Debt, diplomacy and dreadnoughts: the National Bank of Turkey, 1909–1919, Middle Eastern Studies, DOI: 10.1080/00263206.2015.1124418