Only eight years ago, the future of Turkey's Yapi Kredi Bank looked as uncertain as any of the other 20-odd banks that had been taken over by the country's banking regulators following a domestic bank crisis.
However, almost alone among its peers that had been taken over, Yapi Kredi was actually solvent, having been seized not due to problems on its own balance sheet but because of those of another bank owned by the same parent group.