Turgut Özal is one of the most influential, as much as controversial, leaders of the recent Turkish politics. He first appeared to be a leading figure in bureaucratic circles in the 1960s as the head of the State Planning Organisation and then as the Undersecretary of Prime Ministry at the beginning of the 1980s. When he was in the later capacity, he succeeded in restructuring of Turkish economy, which later on became famous as the 24 October decisions. He was probably among the first leaders wh ...