Turkey’s Koc and PM Erdogan: making friends again? | beyondbrics

Turkey’s Koc and PM Erdogan: making friends again? | beyondbrics:

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Let bygones be bygones

So, how are the seemingly vexed relations between Turkey’s government and the country’s biggest company, Koc Holding? Not as bad as all that, according to Mustafa Koc, the man who heads the family-controlled conglomerate.

Really?

A reminder of the apparent points of friction and why they matter:

Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan kicked off the year by questioning and ultimately rejecting the winning $5.7bn bid – a record amount – in a tender to operate almost 2,000 km of Turkish roads and bridges. Koc, long seen as the archetype of the “white Turks”, the secular elite the Islamist-rooted Erdogan has long railed against, represented 40 per cent of the consortium that put that bid together."

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