BARÇIN YİNANÇ
US-Turkish dialogue in Syria and the fate of the S-400s
Şişe Cam, which translates as “bottle glass” in English, is one of the Turkish Republic’s oldest companies. When the company opened a glass bottle production plant in Russia in 2002, this is what the company’s legendary director, Şahap Kocatopçu, said during the ceremony: “We wanted to build a plant to produce window glass. For three years I went to all the plants in Europe. None of them agreed, saying: ‘This is a complex industry, Turks can’t do it.’ Their intention was not to lose the Turkish market. The Russians heard about it and came to us. Russia enabled us to use the latest technology, and thanks to them, we were able to produce window glass in 1961. Forty-one years later, we paid our ‘moral’ debt with the plant we built in Russia.”
March 02 2020
