"Turkey's Media War
By Soner Cagaptay
Newsweek, September 20, 2008
For the last six years, the Turkish Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association, Tusiad, has been a crucial source of support for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). The pro-business, pro-European Union group provided the party with domestic and international legitimacy, and armed it with the means to fight off accusations that it was an Islamist party. But over the last several months the relationship between TUSIAD and the AKP, always an uneasy one, has faltered. AKP leader and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sharply attacked Aydin Dogan -- whose family holds the presidency of the association and owns roughly half the Turkish media -- characterizing Dogan as a rich and corrupt businessman."
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