He failed signally to take advantage of the overtures of the then Turkish leader, Turgut Ozal, in the late 1980s.
On 12 September 1990 - two months Mrs Thatcher resigned as UK prime minister - Mr Ozal sent her a letter.
Mr Kotil, an American-trained mechanical engineer, says the turnaround began in the early 1990s under Turgut Ozal, the president at the time.
Ozal reportedly died of heart failure at an Ankara hospital, aged 65.
Among ordinary Turks, however, Mr Erdogan remains the most popular and charismatic leader since a visionary former prime minister and president, Turgut Ozal.
In 2010, Korkut Ozal said his brother's 1993 death was the work of a nationalist network with senior military links known as Ergenekon.
The remains of Turkish President Turgut Ozal have been exhumed from an Istanbul grave amid suspicions from family and associates that he was poisoned.
After a period of military rule following a coup in 1980, Ozal served as prime minister from 1983-89, when he was elected president by parliament.
The autopsy is expected to be completed by the end of the week, when the remains would be returned to the Ozal family, forensic experts said.
Mr Ozal claimed PPI "might have been victim of those whose purpose is first and foremost to undermine the Turkish Cypriot economy and the interests of Turkey".
"Henri Michel was sacked for several reasons including the bad performance of the team in the African Nations Cup, " said Mohamed Ozal, deputy chairman of the country's Royal Football Federation.
So, amid heavy security and overseen by a team of forensic experts led by Istanbul's Chief Prosecutor Turan Colakkadi, mechanical diggers on Tuesday morning dug up Ozal's grave from a grand mausoleum in an Istanbul cemetery.
While pious Turks like the way that Ozal eased religion into public life, they will be hard pushed to turn this controversial bon viveur into a religious figurehead, still less his motorway tomb into a site of pilgrimage.
The trial heard of a letter Turkish President Turgut Ozal wrote to Margaret Thatcher in September 1990 - two months before she resigned as UK prime minister - asking her to ensure UK authorities acted with "fairness" towards PPI.
AK, they fear, might favour the more ostentatiously religious sort of businessmen in the Anatolian hinterland, who have been chipping away at Istanbul's economic dominance since the time of the late Turgut Ozal, Turkey's visionary leader in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
The deeper worry among Turkey's secular elite is not about creeping Islam but over a loss of power to an encroaching class of pious bureaucrats and entrepreneurs that has become increasingly visible since Turgut Ozal, a modernising former prime minister, liberalised the economy after the generals' third and most recent direct coup in 1980.
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