But, despite his mild manner, Mr Cem has been toughening Turkey's foreign policy towards east and north.
Mr Dervis makes no secret of his wish to work with Mr Cem as a possible coalition partner.
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Why replace Cem Kozlu, the man who turned around the national airline, with another of Mr Erdogan's former associates?
But Mr Cem first has to muster the minimum 10% of the vote needed to win seats in parliament.
This brainily patrician background did not seem to mark Mr Cem out as a natural vote-winner among ordinary Turks.
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Mr Cem's family fled to Istanbul before an advancing Greek army in 1907.
Within Turkey's government, however, Mr Ecevit is balanced by the more pacific Mr Yilmaz and Ismail Cem, the foreign minister.
Mr Cem announced to a press conference that he is forming a new pro-western political party with Mr Ozkan and Mr Dervis.
But Mr Cem may, in moments of reflection, reckon that a deal with the Kurds will one day have to be struck.
In 2008 Cem Ozdemir, a Swabian of Turkish origin, became co-chairman of the Greens, the first hyphenated German to lead a big party.
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Already that summer Mr Cem and Mr Papandreou had held the first of what became a series of friendly meetings to tackle old disputes.
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Turkey's western partners are now praying for a quick resolution, and would enthusiastically back a new party led by Mr Cem and Mr Ozkan.
It was notable, too, that Mr Cem urged Mr Ecevit to let the Americans use Turkish bases from which to bomb the Serbs in Kosovo last year.
Indeed, Mr Cem made a dreadful start two-and-a-half years ago, when he became foreign minister in an awkward coalition led by the left-of-centre but nationalistic Bulent Ecevit.
According to Cem Marti, an analyst at Ata Investment, the expansion also may help with government plans to sell off part of its 98% stake in the airline.
Mr Cem now says that Kurdish-language broadcasting should be allowed.
Born into a rich Ottoman family in 1940, Mr Cem is proud of roots that go back to Salonika, now in Greece, where modern Turkey's founder, Kemal Ataturk, was born.
So western diplomats are touting a next-best option, with Turkey's urbane foreign minister, Ismail Cem, a member of Ecevit's party, taking the helm and Mr Dervis still running the economy.
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Educated at Turkey's top school, Robert College in Istanbul, Mr Cem studied law in Lausanne and politics in Paris before becoming a columnist for the left-leaning daily newspaper, Cumhuriyet (the Republic).
Adding to the complexities of the CEM landscape is the emergence of big data, as detailed in the recent McKinsey Report Big Data, The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition and Productivity.
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Prof Tymms, director of the Curriculum, Evaluation and Management (CEM) Centre at Durham, told the BBC News website he was very pleased at the findings as he had been "banging on" about the issue for a long time.
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Soon spotted by Mr Ecevit, during one of his spells as prime minister in the 1970s, Mr Cem at 34 became the youngest director of Turkish radio and television, at a time when the state had a monopoly of broadcasting.
Managing CEM is like herding cats.
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Mr Cem, a committed Europhile who is well-liked by the public, would guarantee good relations with the EU. Mr Dervis, who would almost certainly join them, would be able to continue to manage Turkey's relationship with the IMF and foreign banks.
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