"Eyeing EU Verdict, Turkey Opens Its First Museum of Modern Art
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Bulent Eczacibasi, Turkey's sixth- richest man according to Forbes magazine, was at a dinner party in October at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris when Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined his group.
Eczacibasi, chairman of Eczacibasi Holding AS, said he asked Erdogan, who seemed awed by the museum he was seeing for the first time, why Turkey shouldn't have ``one-tenth'' of the French museum. Two days later, he got a call from the prime minister, inquiring about an Eczacibasi-funded museum project. "
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