And as such, says Hikmet Ersek, chief executive of Western Union, many of the transactions are life-changing.
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Among its more recent operations was an attempt to kill another former justice minister, Hikmet Sami Turk, in 2009.
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Among the best: Hikmet Pinar on Cukurcuma Street, with its idiosyncratic collection that includes pieces of a Greek column and Ottoman wall decorations.