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Located in Kayseri, its Istikbal furniture line not only ships abroad, but has several stores in the Middle East, including Syria.
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Unlike finance, which has largely stayed in Istanbul, such businesses have tended to develop most in fast-growing Anatolian cities such as Bursa, Kayseri and Konya.
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It also flies to nearby Kayseri from Istanbul, as does Anadolu Jet, while Pegasus Airlines flies from both Istanbul and Izmir and Sun Express flies from Germany.
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But he has done surprisingly well on the hustings, winning a parliamentary seat in 1995 for his secular, leftish party in the central Anatolian city of Kayseri, a bastion of religious and nationalist conservatism, and doubling his share of the vote last year.
ECONOMIST: Ismail Cem, a Turkish strategist