Controversial Turkish Cypriot businessman Asil Nadir died on Wednesday at the age of 83.
Nadir rose to prominence in the United Kingdom when he transformed textile company Polly Peck into a multi-million-pound company during the 1980s before it became mired in scandal and ultimately ended in a jail sentence. He also owned a powerful media empire in the north of Cyprus until 2022.
Born in 1941 in the village of
