"Turkey's garment trade
Mar 2nd 2006
From The Economist print edition
SULTAN ABULHAMID II, who reigned over the bankrupt Ottoman Empire during its final days, had a weakness for French underpants. A pair of these silken knee-length wonders once sported by the Sultan hang lovingly framed in the office of Deha Orhan, Turkey's leading producer of underwear. Had the Sultan lived today, Mr Orhan says, he would have happily settled for Turkish-made knickers, because they are just as good, if not better.…"
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