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North Carolina State University.
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Ahmet Ozal
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Career
He has been an Member of Parliament, and co-founded the Uzan Group and later the Özal Group. After graduating from the North Carolina State University he worked at the International Monetary Fund and in international banking from 1979 to 1988. In 1989 he co-founded (with Cem Uzan) Turkey"s first private television station, "Magic Box" (now Star television).
Özal was elected to the Grand National Assembly of Turkey in 1999 as an independent.
He joined the Motherland Party in 2002, and was the party"s candidate for Mayor of Istanbul in the March 2009 local elections (gaining less than 1% of the vote). Later, he would become Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party, after the Motherland Party merged with it in October 2009.
He has suggested that the Soviet Union might have been responsible, because of Turgut"s efforts to unite the Turkic republics of Central Asia. In 2013 Özal said that several months before the 1988 assassination attempt on Turgut, Turgut had survived a plane incident in which his official plane lost an engine and crash-landed (Ahmet was on board at the time).
The manufacturer later reported a 95% probability that the plane would explode under the circumstances present.
He is on the Board of Trustees of Turgut Özal University.
