After World War I the defeated Ottoman Empire's most successful general, Mustafa Kemal , took over and made the revolutionary decision that Turkey's future lay in tying itself firmly to the West.

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Like a growing number of observers, Mr Eustice, now a Tory MP, believes politicians have over-estimated the power of the Murdoch empire and the press in general - and that the days of cosying up to powerful interests could, and should, be over.

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The Thurn und Taxis family eventually won the lucrative position of postmasters-general for the Holy Roman Empire.

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And international financial activity will remain sluggish for some time because multinationals are not, in general, indulging in the global empire-building that gave the City so much work in the good times.

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There are a slew of high-profile candidates for Clinton's Senate seat -- including Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, whose last name carries some star power of its own in the Empire State -- but their odds grew just a bit steeper when stacked against the wattage of a storied Democratic dynasty.

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