run afoul of the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act. (Halkbank image via Courthouse News) MANHATTAN (CN) — The Second Circuit appeared unlikely Monday to rule that Turkey’s state-run Halkbank is immune from claims over the same crimes that brought indictments against its executives. “Since the bank is synonymous with government of Turkey, in your view, I assume the officers of the bank would be, in effect, state officials; Are they state officials?,” U.S. Circuit Judge Jose Cabranes asked an attorney for the bank this afternoon as the Manhattan-based court held remote oral arguments. “Several of these managers or executives of the bank been indicted,” the Clinton-appointed judge noted. “Has anybody asserted a claim of diplomatic immunity or any sort of immunity that’s ascribable to the government?”