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Biography of Abdullah Gul.
From the Turkish Office of the Prime Minister Directorate General of
Press and Information:
“Born in Kayseri in 1950. Graduated from the Faculty of Economics,
İstanbul University. Received a scholarship and lived in London and
Exeter for two years, doing his master’s and doctorate degrees. Worked
for the Islamic Development Bank. Served as State Minister in the 54th
Government. Elected Deputy Chairman of the Virtue Party (FP). Entered
Parliament as an FP deputy for the third time in 1999. Became Deputy
Chairman of the Justice and Development Party (AKP). Speaks English
and Arabic. Married with three children.”
http://www.byegm.gov.tr/hukumetler/58hukumet/biographies.htm
Additional information:
“Abdullah was born into a humble family in the conservative Anatolian
province of Kayseri, and spent a chunk of his career in academia and
as an economist at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi
Arabia…”
http://www.salaam.co.uk/knowledge/biography/viewentry.php?id=1977
“He studied economics and first entered parliament in 1991 as a member
of the Welfare Party. He was later a key moderniser in the Virtue
party, which was outlawed in 2001.
He is said to have a good command of English and a lively sense of
humour.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/country_profiles/1022222.stm
“1995: Minister for foreign relations”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/2483279.stm
Biogrpahy of Ahmet Celebi aka Ahmad Chalabi
“Ahmad Chalabi is the president of the Iraqi National Congress, where
he has developed political and military contacts, created radio and
television broadcast networks, and established humanitarian relief and
peacekeeping agencies. Mr. Chalabi served as a mathematics professor
and as an assistant dean of arts and sciences at the American
University of Beirut and is the founder of the Petra Bank in Amman,
Jordan. Mr. Chalabi was an active member of the International Board of
VISA and the chairman and chief executive officer of the Petra Bank
when a 1989 military decree deposed him from his positions. For more
than thirty years, Mr. Chalabi has been active in the political
opposition to the Baath Party in Iraq. “
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Chalabi is the scion of a wealthy banking family whose grandfather,
father and brother held prominent posts in Iraqi governments until
Saddam Hussein's Arab Baath Socialist Party seized power in 1968. He
has not lived full time in Iraq since 1958 except when he resided
intermittently in the U.S.-protected Kurdish north between 1993 and
1996 as a leader of the CIA's aborted operation against Iraqi forces.
Chalabi was a math professor at the American University in Beirut
until 1977, when he went to Amman. Diving into the seemingly
bottomless sea of Arab oil money, he built an innovative banking
empire. He fled Jordan in 1989 to escape prosecution when the bank
collapsed. In 1992, Jordan's State Security Court convicted Chalabi in
absentia and sentenced him to 22 years for embezzling millions from
his Petra Bank.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/chalb.htm
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