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...newly formed national grid. Erdogan denied that his government was engaged in a political witch-hunt. "We have no personal vendetta," he said last week. "We have a duty to the people who elected us to rid the country of dirty odors." Analysts agree that while the crackdown may serve a political purpose, it may also be part of a long overdue anticorruption drive required by the European Union as a condition for accession negotiations to begin. "If you are going to fight corruption, you have to deal with the Uzans," claims Radikal columnist Berkan. Bizarrely, state-owned companies continue...
What do you think of the government crackdown on your family businesses? Everyone knows this is a political lynching. There is no country in the world that does to you what [Prime Minister Recep Tayyip] Erdogan has done to my family. Motorola's complaint states that your company, Telsim, never intended to pay back its loans. It also says your family has tried to intimidate Motorola into dropping the suit A bunch of outright lies. The intention to settle was there all the time. This family has never said we will not pay. Not once. So when will...
...upheld on appeal could cost the family $9 billion. "The era of the Uzans' untouchability is over," says Ismet Berkan, chief political columnist of Radikal, a leading left-wing newspaper owned by the Dogan group. "Their empire is unraveling." The clash marks a watershed in Turkey. If the crackdown is successful, the government will claim a major victory in the fight against Turkey's old way of doing business. That could also help accession talks with the European Union, which has been calling for reforms. And with George W. Bush weighing in on Motorola's behalf last year, redress...
...action. But Abbas refuses to launch a Palestinian civil war, and insists his way is actually working, bringing the calm that almost three years of Israeli military action failed to achieve. The Israelis say the "hudna" simply gives them breathing space to reorganize and rearm, and that without a crackdown the resumption of terror is inevitable. The differences over how the Palestinians proceed on the security front appear to be intractable, at least to the extent that they're left up to the Israelis and Palestinians themselves to resolve. President Bush will now be forced to not only...
...hopefully the country's better for it." The film does highlight the government's response to Guerin's murder: a zero-tolerance policy that made it easier to investigate suspected criminals and reduced the overall crime rate in Ireland by 12%. What it leaves out is that despite the crackdown, violent crime in Ireland has risen sharply. This omission aggravates those who work close to the statistics. "You get the impression from the film that organized crime in Ireland has been closed down," says Paul Williams, a reporter with the Sunday World who was Guerin's main rival...