Turkey finally has a national credit rating agency that it has been dreaming of for years. Borsa Istanbul and other Turkish finance institutions bought 85.05% of Japan Credit Rating Agency (JCR) Avrasya.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has frequently lashed out at the low grades Moody's and S&P have assigned to Turkey. In 2012, Erdogan first talked about creating an “indigenous and national” credit rating agency.