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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Open for business: Turkey's bankers tap into Kurdish boom - The National

"Open for business: Turkey's bankers tap into Kurdish boom

James Calderwood
Jun 22, 2011

But while Ataturk coveted the oil-rich territory of northern Iraq when he founded Turkey, the banker Yesur Meylani has not come to occupy land. In fact, he is a Kurd - one of more than 21,000 Turks who have moved to Erbil, many in the hope of tapping into the booming cross-border trade."

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