Effects on the Turkish banking sector before and after 2008 crisis

The 2008 crisis is one of the greatest crises in the history of the world that emerged in the United States and then spread all over the world. The banking sector is one of the sectors where the effects of the crisis. The main purpose of this study is to compare the banks performances in Turkey before and after of 2008 financial crisis. The literature review methodology was used to achieve this purpose. The capital adequacy ratio, profitability, return on equity, profitability, net interest margin, bad loan rates, deposit loan / foreign exchange ratio indicators and free asset indicators were evaluated in Turkish banking sector before and after the crisis. According to the results obtained, the crisis showed negative effects such that the levels of profitability, asset profitability and equity profitability. But the crisis did not effect on the troubled loans and this variable did not change. Also in the study, the results were that the indicators of the dull average assets and net interest margins increased with the crisis. The results of the study showed that theTurkish bankingsector, which had been restructured after the crisis of 2001, had a certain level of stability and reduced the level of its effects despite the adverse effects of the crisis.