Thursday, August 10, 2006

TURKISH POWER ELITES

Power elites have 5 subclasses: Businessmen, politicians, mediators, military men, and intellectuals.

Businessmen roughly equals dollar millionaires. They have organizations such as Turkish Businessman Assciation, Turkish Young Businessmen Association, Turkish Independent Businessmen Associtaion, Istanbul Commerce Chamber, Istanbul Industry Chamber, Turkish Chambers Association, etc.

Politicians are deputies, ex-deputies, mayors, parties' city presidents, etc.

Mediators are owners, journalists, chroniclers, famous people (singers, top models), etc.

Military men are the ones ranked as colonel / captain and the higher ranked ones.

Intellectuals are academicians, writers, artists, etc. Intelegentsia prefer to be close to the state, not against it.

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