Exemption from 65 age limit in the Official Gazette: Special arrangement for İLBANK Director General Karahan

Article 19 of the 'Regulation Amending the Human Resources Regulation of İller Bankası Anonim Şirketi', published in the Official Gazette's 10 November issue, added a new exception to the 65-year retirement limit applied to İLBANK personnel. According to the sentence added to the first paragraph of Article 105 of the regulation, 'those appointed within the scope of Presidential Decree No. 3' will be exempt from this age limit.

Before the amendment, all İLBANK personnel who had reached the age of 65 were to have their ties with the institution severed, with their statutory rights paid out. It is understood that Eyyüp Karahan, who was appointed to the İLBANK Director General post by presidential decree on 28 November 2024, will turn 65 on 21 February 2027, meaning that under the old rule he would have had to retire.

Karahan's CV shows that he held senior managerial posts within İBB subsidiaries during the AKP period, later took on the role of İBB deputy secretary-general responsible for financial affairs and subsidiaries, and resigned from his post after Ekrem İmamoğlu won the election.

Meanwhile, former İBB executive Buğra Gökce, who has been detained for 600 days as part of the İBB case, is reported to have said, 'If the person doing the same job as me and signing the same documents is from the AKP, he becomes İller Bankası Director; if he is from the CHP, he ends up lying in Silivri.'