22/02/2001 (Agence Europe) - After a long meeting chaired by Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit and attended by Gazi Ercel, governor of the central bank, Turkey decided on Thursday to renounce the fixed exchange rate system established in an agreement end 1999 with the International Monetary Fund. A press release specifies that, after "recent developments" (this being an allusion to the monetary crisis caused by the disagreement between the prime minister and President Sezer over the fight against...