Word: erdogan
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...clients were prudent. "When you looked at the Uzans you found they were tough and hard but not radically different than the other people in developing countries who do oil or telecom. You had to deal with them." Uzan's real venom, however, is reserved for Prime Minister Erdogan, whose Justice and Development Party was founded on Islamic principles. The move to shut down the family's profitable utilities stung. "What kind of a Muslim are you, man?" Uzan told a crowd in Bursa after the government seized the utilities. "You infidel!" The speech was subsequently re-broadcast on Uzan...
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...
...fact, is a welcome pursuit for Uzan, who is leader of the Youth Party. But he is also scion of one of Turkey's richest and most controversial business empires. And business for the Uzan group is not going so well. In June the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan seized two major Uzan-owned utilities in southern Turkey for breaching energy regulations, and in July the country's independent banking regulator took over the Uzans' flagship bank, Imar Bank, noting it was "not meeting its responsibilities and posed a danger to the banking system." The five Uzan TV stations were...
...going to the President, to the Turkish government, day by day to convince them," he said. Opening the line, he argued, would show ordinary Greeks that Turkish Cyprus was not an economically backward province laboring under military rule. Ankara was receptive, says Serdar, and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan "was particularly encouraging." Rauf Denktash - who, to the displeasure of many of his own people, has fiercely resisted the U.N. effort to find a solution - agreed to go along as an "experiment." Analysts say Turkey's support for the measure may be a step in the new, pro-Islamic government...
...three roommates died one by one. "At first, we were talking to each other in the dark," he said. "But after a while their voices died out." Turks were outraged that the dormitory collapsed while other buildings around the school were still standing. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to pursue allegations that bad construction standards may have been responsible. - By Pelin Turgut/Istanbul See Also: May Day Disaster Poll Postponed U.K. British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed elections for Northern Ireland's Assembly just four weeks before voters were set to go to the polls. The Assembly was suspended seven...