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...But Mr Ipek, a former ally of Mr Erdogan who is now a staunch foe, is in a different position....
...However, Mr Koza said these trends were likely to be shortlived....
...Hugo Keith QC representing Mr Ipek who is chairman of the Koza-Ipek company and owner of a number of Turkish news outlets, told the High Court on Tuesday that the indictment brought against the three men...
...Galip Ozturk, owner of a bus company with a market capitalisation of about $100m, aims to bid for the assets of Koza Ipek, a conglomerate whose listed units once had a market cap of nearly $6bn....
...“Our companies have been audited for the last two years, and nothing has been found,” said Bilal Calisir, a lawyer for Koza Ipek....
...A week before national elections in November, the government seized the assets of the Koza Ipek group, which ran two newspapers and a television channel critical of Mr Erdogan....
...Last week’s arrest on purported terrorism charges of three foreign correspondents working for Vice, the online news channel, and this week’s dawn raid on the Koza Ipek group, a mining and energy consortium...
...Another group, Koza-Ipek, whose owner is close to Mr Gulen, lost control of its media outlets last week after they were stormed by police because of the links with the exiled preacher....
...Since then, the government has taken several steps against Gulenist media, including the takeover last month of Koza Ipek Holding, which ran two other Gulen-inspired newspapers and television channels....
...Within days, though, the government stormed the headquarters of Ipek-Koza Holding, whose media properties have been openly critical of the government....
...Koza Altin, a gold group owned by prominent sympathisers of Mr Gulen, fell by more than 11 per cent despite issuing a statement emphasising that it did not depend on the government for business or tenders...
...“We created this political and economic stability with our own strength,” said Mr Babacan, one of the government’s most internationally respected figures....
...Days after Mr Erdogan made his speech in Manisa, Koza Altin, a gold mining group close to the Gulen movement, said one of its principal mines had been shut down by the government, though it had provided...
...Mr Vecht says his best-performing stock in the past year was Turkish gold mining company Koza Altin, which has come good after several years in the portfolio....
...Mr Ipek already owns the religious-leaning newspaper Bugun (Today), and in 2008 acquired the anti-government broadcaster KanalTurk....
...of its gold-mining unit, Koza Altin....
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