Uzan Group was a Turkish conglomerate owned by

Cem Uzan Cem Uzan (born 26 December 1960, İstanbul) is a Turkish businessman and politician involved in the media and banking industries, while also chairing the social liberal Young Party (GP). His family's media empire (Uzan Group) at one time includ ...

. The group formerly owned (via the Star Media Group)

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, which it had founded as the first private broadcaster of the country,

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, and the '' Star'' newspaper it launched in 1999. Other group companies included the

Telsim Vodafone Telekomünikasyon Anonim Şirketi or Vodafone Turkey ( tr, Vodafone Türkiye) is a Turkish mobile telecommunications company. It was formed when Telsim, which was founded by the Uzan Group, was incorporated into Vodafone group on 28 Dec ...

mobile network and Imar Bank. In 2003 the Turkish government seized 219 group companies to cover $5.7 billion of debts arising from bank fraud at Imar. Uzan Group's ÇEAŞ and Kepez companies were seized by the Turkish government in 2003. A Cypriot company controlled by the Uzan family, Libananco, sued the Turkish government for $10 billion in damages, but lost the case in front of the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes trade panel. Hurriyet Daily News, 22 May 2013
Turkey wins final appeal in Libananco case against Uzan family
/ref> ICSID, 22 September 2011
Libananco v Turkey, ICSID case no. ARB/06/8
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