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Article: The man Turks trust: Kemal Dervis; Charlemagne.(Charlemagne: Turkey's Kemal Dervis)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 17, 2002
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Their economy needs a firm hand. His has been that. Will they be able to vote for it to be so again?
"IT WAS very important to me to be top of the class, so that I would be chosen to carry the Turkish flag at the end of the week," reminisces Turkey's freshly resigned former economy minister about his primary-school years on bucolic Buyukada island, in the sea of Marmara near Istanbul. Today, Kemal Dervis says his most cherished goal is to "establish a convergence of centre-left forces that would achieve the conditions under which Turkey can overcome its economic difficulties and pursue our road towards Europe and a modern and free society".
Since ...