My father was such a man. Money never changed his idealistic attitude. Naturally, he did not make money either.
Emrullah Nutku... The political environment in Turkey was quite tense. The Menderes government was working with all its might to divide the country into two camps. The most valid slogan of those who wanted to rule single-handedly is: "Divide and Rule". On the state-owned radio, it was said that hundreds of people had joined the "homeland front" (!) every day, and as it turned out later, hundreds of fake and imaginary names were flying around. Sound familiar? My father (Emrullah Nutku) had foreseen the DP's course, and in 1957, he had resigned from the party after getting tired of Menderes' abuse of power. Yet, he was an idealist who had enacted a law in favor of tenants, despite being a landlord. Indeed, the "Akis" magazine had put my father on the cover and put the phrase "Kiracılarların Halaskarı" (Tenants' Savior) under his picture. In 1957, my father and Turan Güneş and Ekrem Alican, who resigned from the party with him, founded the "Freedom Party". My father could not stand the trickery and filth of politics and left the party they had just founded, and adopted the path of doing better things for his country. One of these was to establish a tourism joint stock company called "Antur" and bring tourists with health insurance for the first time. He had a motel built in Alanya called "Alantur". When the company started to make money, he sold his own shares saying "Money is the dirt on our hands". This time, he helped agriculture by establishing the first fertilizer factory in Trabzon. He left there and started the egg business by bringing the first electric incubators to Turkey. Since his eggs were both large and cheap, when the eggs my father produced began to dominate the market, one night while they were on a family trip, his competitors destroyed the incubators with pump-action shotguns and killed his chickens, so he left that job and started the business of bringing tourists to Turkey on his own. My father was such a man. Money never spoiled his idealistic attitude. Naturally, money didn't make him money either. Writer: Özdemir Nutku, "Footprints in the Water-I / Memories and Projections", Turkey İş B. Kültür Yayınları
