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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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The government has seized more than 950 companies, from a baklava chain to a major construction firm, over suspected ties to a coup attempt last year.
By David Segal @ Nytimes.com, July 22
LONDON — Akin Ipek, one of Turkey’s richest men, was staying in the Park Tower Hotel in London when the police raided his television network in Istanbul. The raid was national news, so Mr. Ipek opened his laptop and watched an unnerving spectacle: an attack on his multibillion-dollar empire, in real time.
It was an oddly cinematic showdown [....]
About $11 billion worth of corporate assets — from small baklava chains to large publicly traded conglomerates — have been grabbed by the government, a systematic taking with few precedents in modern economic history. Several thousand dispossessed executives have fled overseas to cities as far-flung as Nashville and Helsinki. The less fortunate were imprisoned [....]