Basına karşı mesafeli duruşlarıyla ünlü Uzan ailesi son günlerdeki en önemli açıklamasını Hakan Uzan vasıtasıyla Reuters Haber Ajansı’na yaptı.
Ropörtajda, aile olarak şu günlerde yaşadıklarını Genç Parti'den dolayı organize politik kampanya olduğunu belirten Hakan Uzan, yasal platformda savaşacaklarını ve kazanacaklarını iddia etti.
Petkim'e dair de konuşan Hakan Uzan, düşüncelerini “Petkimle hala ilgileniyoruz. Konuyu yakından ve etkin bir şekilde takip edeceğiz” şeklinde belirtiyor.
Motorola ve Nokia davalarına da ropörtajda değinen Hakan Uzan davalara Amerikan mahkemelerinin bakma ve hüküm verme hakkı olmadığını belirtiyor.
Kontratlara göre İsviçre mahkemelerinin anlaşmazlıklardaki çözüm makamı olacağını ve bu nedenle Nokia ile olan uzlaşmazlığı bu yolla çözeceklerini belirten Uzan Motorolaya’da sorunu aynı yöntemle çözme çağrısında bulundu.
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INTERVIEW-Turkey's Uzan family comes out fighting
By Gill Tudor
ISTANBUL, Aug 12 (Reuters) - Turkey's millionaire Uzan family, swamped by a deluge of lawsuits and misconduct allegations at home and abroad, said on Tuesday it was confident of clearing its name across the board.
Hakan Uzan, one of the most powerful Uzans alongside his politician brother Cem, said the family would launch legal appeals on all fronts and accused the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) of pursuing a political vendetta.
''We will continue to do our best on the legal front,'' he told Reuters in a rare interview, in a luxury hotel suite overlooking the Bosphorus.
''This is a wilful, deliberate political campaign, but as long as you are right in law and just in law, you will prevail -- and we do believe that.''
The Uzans, one of Turkey's richest and most controversial families, have had a very tough few months.
A U.S. court last month ordered them to pay mobile phone maker Motorola more than $4.26 billion, saying they siphoned off huge sums of money from the U.S. firm and rival cell-phone maker Nokia in a bogus financing deal.
Courts have frozen Uzan assets in the United States, Britain and Germany in relation to the Motorola case, and two family members face arrest in Britain for contempt of court.
A crackdown by Turkish authorities has cost them control of two power companies and two banks, put their television companies off the air and lost them the chance to buy a state petrochemicals firm at what was widely seen as a bargain price.
And Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan is suing Cem Uzan, media baron and populist leader of the Youth Party, for libel.
''NO WRONGDOING''
The family denies any wrongdoing.
It says the U.S. court has no jurisdiction over the Motorola-Nokia dispute, as contracts with the two firms oblige them to settle any disagreements under Swiss law.
Hakan Uzan said the family was involved in Swiss arbitration talks with Nokia despite the U.S. lawsuit, and repeated his call to Motorola to join in and discuss rescheduling the defaulted loans owed by his mobile phone company, Telsim.
The Uzans also accuse the AKP of manipulating independent Turkish authorities such as the banking and broadcasting regulators and the privatisation body to try to damage the nationalist Youth Party, which came from nowhere to win more than seven percent of the vote in last year's general election.
''What we are facing here is an organised political campaign against my family, solely based on the fact that my brother is running in politics,'' Hakan Uzan said.
''We are a large contributor to the Turkish economy -- power, cement, mobile telephony. It's absolutely shocking to see all the things that are happening, which under normal circumstances in a European country would be appalling to witness.''
Uzan said the family had also not ruled out the possibility of making a fresh bid for state petrochemicals firm Petkim .
Uzan-controlled firm Standart Kimya won the original privatisation tender but the process was cancelled last week after the Uzans, squeezed by the effective seizure of their two banks, failed to make the necessary down payment.
''Petkim is of interest to us,'' he said. ''We'll be a vigorous follower of what's going to happen next.''
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Güncellenme Tarihi : 16.3.2016 20:30
