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Turkey: From promise to despair

By Editorial

One of the best adverts in the recent past was the one pitting the world’s top footballer Lionel Messi of Argentina against the world’s top basketballer, Kobe Bryant. In the promo, the two are vying for the attention of a kid on a plane. The Turkey Airways advert became a massive you-tube hit, with more than 7 million hits on the first day.  The advert put Turkey’s national carrier, once a loss-making outfit, on the world map, earning triple profits in 2012. This dropped in 2013 by almost half.

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