Effect of maturity risk on bank profitability - an application for the Turkish banking sector

Risk is a concept that we faced every field today. Technological developments in the world have affected all sectors. Especially in the banking sector, developing of the technology and increasing the number of different transactions has affected the risk types. Because of this reason, effective risk management is required and importand to avoidrisk exposure for banks. The purpose of this study is to examine the liquidity risk, which is the most important risk for banks. Comments is made about liquidity situation of banks by examining last 10 years balance sheets of banks in Turkey. In this way banking sector's liquidity risk tried to reveal.