The leading writer and academic Soli Ozel took a different view.

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Soli Ozel, a commentator on foreign affairs, says the war of words with Mr Maliki suggests that Turkey never had a plan for a post-America Iraq.

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Soli Sorabjee, counsel for Forbes and a former attorney general in India, argued that as chairman of India's largest media company, Ms. Jain was a public figure and her wealth was not a private matter.

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