“…Put differently, dependence on the credit-led growth model, and a growth regime that positions the executive and constituency (i.e., business; non-financial corporations, NFCs, such as small-and-medium sized enterprises, export-oriented manufacturers, construction firms, and tourism) within clientelistic arrangements, prioritization of economic growth through lower interest rates and loose bank regulatory policy drove policy non-design. As the executive has not changed its course since then while insisting on haphazard response, such prolonged non-design in the face of a crisis juncture did not remain within the realm of instrument choices: it led to policy accumulation in terms of a rise in policy density and intensity, along with decay in organizational policy capacity within bureaucracy through policy alienation (Tummers et al, 2009;van Engen et al, 2019), as autonomous regulatory agency (Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency, BRSA) and monetary authority (Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, CBRT) have faced non-trivial challenges to their autonomy and capabilities to rely on their previously acknowledged organizational capacities (Apaydin & Coban, 2022a, 2022bCoban, 2022). Furthermore, erosion in systemic policy capacity arose in the form of a decline in transparency, accountability, and lower trust in public organizations and the government.…”