The Turkish President last week described the investor as a man 'who assigns people to divide nations and shatter them'
November 26, 2018 14:42
ByMichael Daventry, Michael Daventry
George Soros’s Open Society Foundation will cease all activities in Turkey after the billionaire investor was singled out by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Açık Toplum Vakfı said it would seek to legally wind up its operations because the “intensification of baseless claims and unrestrained speculation in the media had made it impossible for the Foundation to continue its operations”.
In a speech last week Mr Erdogan alleged Mr Soros was funding a campaign to release Osman Kavala, a businessman in custody since last year on charges of conspiring to topple the government during mass protests in 2013.
“Behind [Kavala] is the famous Hungarian Jew, Soros,” Mr Erdogan said in a speech to local government leaders on Wednesday.
