Turkey Probes Zorlu Holding CEO Over Islamic Holy Month Email
The case against Koksal has the become the latest in a series of probes against prominent Turkish businessmen along with journalists and opposition figures in what critics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan call a crackdown with the aim of muzzling dissent.
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