Turkey to prioritise economy, including inflation, finance minister says

FILE PHOTO: Turkey's Finance Minister Naci Agbal is pictured during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, September 27, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's government will prioritise the economy, including bringing down inflation and unemployment, and will not take tax measures that could further stoke consumer price growth, Finance Minister Naci Agbal told Reuters on Tuesday.

Speaking two days after Turks voted by a narrow margin to change the constitution and hand President Tayyip Erdogan sweeping new powers, Agbal said government incentives are designed to boost the private sector, and that the ruling AK Party does not want public sector-driven economic growth.