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...career, Heydar Aliyev - President of Azerbaijan, KGB general and veteran of spectacular Kremlin intrigues in the waning years of the U.S.S.R. - was a consummate in-fighter who prided himself on total control of the state machine. Earlier this month, as the 80-year-old Aliyev lay in a Turkish hospital, reportedly near death, he pulled off his final piece of political gamesmanship: the appointment of his 41-year-old son, Ilham, as Prime Minister, ensuring that should Heydar die or become incapacitated, Ilham can take over as acting President. And as a Russian IL-62 flying hospital rushed Aliyev from...
...clicks, however, because it doesn't italicize the atrocities; it knows not only that wickedness abounds but also that smart people can use it as well as be abused by it. Inside the sharp social commentary is an appealing love story between an African doctor (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and a Turkish maid (Amelie's Audrey Tautou). And as the hotel's night manager--the film's designated devil--Sergi Lopez is the most genial of miscreants. Committing each sin with a smile, he assures that the lives of his staff will remain an agony until ... "Until the world improves," the doctor...
...Lies! A bunch of outright lies!" Uzan says of the Motorola complaint, which among other things charges the family with using libel and extortion to intimidate its enemies. Judge Rakoff, he claims, is anti-Turkish. "He is biased against Turkey, against the Turkish people." As for the High Court judge in the U.K. who slapped Uzan family members with a 15-month jail term for contempt of court and a worldwide freeze on assets, he "thinks he rules the world." The whole Motorola-Nokia lawsuit is merely a "business dispute between one company and another" and should be dealt with...
...will not pay. Not once. So when will you pay? We have to wait until the litigation ends, right? What has been the highlight of your business career to date? The takeover of the [Cukurova Electricity company] in 1993. It was the first and only hostile takeover in Turkish history. What impact have the recent legal penalties had on your business? Their aim was to destroy our business reputation and they were successful at it. How has the freeze on your international assets, including Swiss bank accounts and Park Avenue apartments, affected you? The assets frozen would not be enough...
...million, respectively, to Telsim. The Uzans never paid them back. In 2002, the two firms filed racketeering charges against the family in U.S. Federal Court, accusing them of perpetrating an elaborate scam. Cem Uzan denies charges of fraud and racketeering in the Motorola case and called the Turkish government's actions a disgrace that he would contest in the European Court of Human Rights. "Erdogan's aim is to destroy our wealth. He believes that [the Youth Party] could not succeed without my funding," he says. "He wants to ban me from political life." Uzan even claims he feels...