Word: turkish-born
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...Atlantic sound," won a dozen Grammys and artfully guided recordings by musicians who included Aretha Franklin, Chaka Khan, Bette Midler and, most recently, Norah Jones; of pancreatic cancer; in New York City. After his production Good Lovin' became a No. 1 hit for the Young Rascals in 1966, the Turkish-born jazz lover arranged and co-produced two of the Queen of Soul's defining albums--I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You and Lady Soul--and later suggested that Barry Gibb use the falsetto that came to epitomize the Bee Gees' 1970s disco sound in such...
...People believed in wealth that the eye could see," says Princess Esra Jah, the Turkish-born former wife of the grandson of the last Nizam of Hyderabad, over tea at the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Bombay. Her work for the family's ambitious restoration of Hyderabad's Chowmahalla Palace as a museum is much admired, and nobles hope the family will be allowed to display permanently the Nizam's fabled jewel collection, which was acquired by the Indian government...
...story of how Ocalan wound up in his enemies' hands reads like a thriller. Since the mid-'80s, the Turkish-born university dropout had spent most of his time safely ensconced in Syria. From there, he directed terror against Turkish targets from P.K.K. bases in northern Iraq and southeastern Turkey. His goal: to force Ankara to grant independence to the country's 12 million Kurds, part of the estimated 20 million Kurds who straddle five nations. Turkey has sought to eradicate Kurdish nationalism by suppressing their language, culture and political rights. Even so, millions of Turkey's Kurds...
...Bolshoi tour was actually supposed to come from Entertainment Corporation U.S.A., a subsidiary of a British firm. But as the deadline neared, the sponsors filed for bankruptcy and the whole tour seemed in jeopardy. To the rescue, like some plumed boyar galloping across the steppes, came Ara Oztemel, a Turkish-born Armenian American who heads an East- West trading corporation named Satra (and plays a hot saxophone on the side). And so the show could go on. But the Bolshoi leaders are aware that they still face a daunting challenge. "Our task is not to return to the world stage...
...fraternity of international arms dealers, this Janus-like profile does not make Ghorbanifar extraordinary. That shadowy netherworld teems with other characters who might seem too garish for a remake of The Maltese Falcon. Among them: Sarkis Soghanalian, a 300-lb. Turkish-born Lebanese citizen living in Miami who specializes these days in selling helicopters to Iraq and is said to receive jars of severed human ears from clients; and Sam Cummings, a wisecracking American-born British subject operating out of Alexandria, Va., who is unabashedly -- though so far unsuccessfully -- negotiating to peddle on the world market some $5 billion worth...