Turgut Ozal: Visionary and Builder of Modern Turkey
Saturday, 17 September 2011 12:13
By K.Gajendra Singh
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Turgut Ozal“You know, I am also an engineer” he said to me, looking up from my bio-data, somewhat to my surprise. He was Turgut Ozal , president of the republic of Turkey , to whom I had just presented my letters of credence ( September ,1992) and along with foreign minister Hikmet Cetin ,I had just set down for the customary audience. This meeting lasted for nearly 50 minutes, with Hikmet Bay mostly a silent listener. When we emerged, a worried looking chief of protocol pacing up and down told me that normally such talks lasted 20 minutes or so.
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