In Turkish heartland, businessmen laud Erdogan's central bank tirades

Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan gestures during a conference at the Foreign Affairs building in Mexico City February 12, 2015. REUTERS/Edgard Garrido

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.