"The Great Turkish Rip-off
By Robert Ellis, September 22 2008
Corruption in Turkey is endemic, stretching back to the Ottoman empire in the sixteenth century, but it was not until the liberalization of the Turkish economy in the 1980’s under Turgut Özal it took on a new dimension. Özal’s remark, “My civil servants know how to take care of business”, has become apocryphal, but there was a lift-off in the 1990’s."
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