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Sat 01 Jan 2009Tale of the century may prove house of mirrors
Turkey is mystified by a man with 100 faces, but is this former journalist a whistleblower who would put Frank Dunlop in the shade or another Walter Mitty? Nicholas Birch writes from Istanbul
THE MAN in Istanbul police headquarters that August day in 2001 was a nondescript sort: a 28-year- old failed journalist with a primary school certificate and a thick Anatolian accent, arrested for petty fraud.
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