KAYSERI, Turkey (Reuters) - President Tayyip Erdogan's tirades against the central bank may be stoking turmoil in Turkish financial markets, but they are winning praise from a class of industrialists who have thrived over the past decade and see him as a pillar of their success.
Ahmet Hasyuncu has turned his humble family cotton mill in Kayseri, a city in the conservative Anatolian heartlands, into a multi-million dollar textile exporter over the past decade, thanks largely, he says, to cheap loans and political stability.