Turkey’s new economy czar, whose portfolio covers state banks and the Treasury, had worked with a known operative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force, a confidential investigation revealed. Nurettin (who also goes by Nureddin) Nebati, a 57-year-old Islamist politician, was identified as a person of interest in a criminal investigation into Quds Force cells in Turkey when police investigators intercepted his communications with an operative identified as Engin Bilgin, a man who was trained, funded and used