Media Power of The Party
Cem Uzan was the owner of Star TV and Star newspaper and used his newspaper and TV station to the best of his ability to promote his party, which is why he has been labelled a Turkish version of Silvio Berlusconi. When he was under investigation, he used advertising space between the first and second halves of champions league football games to launch political assaults upon his opponents. After his tough speech about current Prime Minister(Recep Tayyip Erdogan), TMSF assumed ownership of his companies and later sold them.
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