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...Mehmet Simsek, a respected former Merrill Lynch banker who struggled against Erdogan’s wishes as deputy prime minister, left politics two years later....
...Ask finance minister Mehmet Simsek, whom I first met when he was a thoughtful analyst at Merrill Lynch, 15 years before he spearheaded a campaign against a foreign media “conspiracy” behind the protests....
...In one conversation released this week, he appeared to push his justice minister to secure a penal conviction for Aydin Dogan, a media magnate, whose newspapers’ criticism has angered Mr Erdogan....
...Mr Aydin’s comments followed a weekend in which NTV, instead of running coverage of protesters capturing the centre of Istanbul, screened a cookery show....
...“Istanbul is very important to us,” says Mehmet Simsek, Turkey’s finance minister....
...He is survived by his wife Aydin, two daughters and a son, two other sons having predeceased him....
...Mehmet Ali Yalçındağ, deputy chairman of Dogan Yayin, said it was assessing the situation and would not yet comment....
...But Mehmet Aydin, minister of religious affairs, the government office that regulates mosques and religious sermons said: “You either have to say ‘I’m sorry’ in a proper way or not say it at all.”...
...Mehmet Aydin, the Turkish minister of religion, campaigned for strictly secular language. He sees secularism not as hostile to religion, but as guaranteeing freedom of worship....
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