Turkish Pillow Gold: The Opulent Secret Mocking Bankers & Economists Alike

The estimable Onur Erdogan—no relation, unless family reunions are measured in carats—spills the beans (or perhaps the gold nuggets) in Türkiye Today. His figures, straight from the bowels of central bank estimates, reveal a clandestine trove of bullion so immense that the Bank’s meagre $86.54 billion in official reserves and Turkish banks’ $46.26 billion in gold deposits must feel like copper coins at a sultan’s wedding.

