‘Where is the $128B?’ Turkey’s opposition presses Erdogan

The sum refers to the dollars sold by Turkey’s state banks to support its lira currency in foreign exchange markets.

“Where is the $128 billion?” asked posters on billboards around Istanbul intended by Turkey’s main opposition to embarrass and annoy President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). The gambit seems to have worked. Police took the posters down, using cranes in some instances, according to videos shared online by the opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP), which said it would keep putting them back up. The question has also trended on social media, while the AK on Tuesday blocked a CHP call to debate the missing funds in parliament.