Asil Nadir: A hero to millions of Turkish Cypriots, but will history mark him down as a crook?
In May 1993 it emerged a British government minister had given the Turkish Cypriot tycoon Asil Nadir a watch bearing the inscription: "Don't let the buggers get you down".
That same month Nadir - wanted in Britain over the theft of millions from his company, Polly Peck International - fled to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), a nation which…
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