Atlanta, GA – Muhtar Kent, the next leader of Coca-Cola, is said to be part diplomat, part farmer and part hard-nosed businessman. Supporters say he’s exactly the kind of executive to take the world’s largest
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Muhtar is a unique product of three worlds. One, a Turkish national. Two, a child of a diplomatic family and, three, a member of the Coca-Cola business family,
Kent owes part of his personal touch, friends say, to his late father, Necdet Kent, a diplomat who was lauded later in life for saving dozens of Jews from the gas chamber. The elder Kent was posted to Marseilles, France, during World War II and gave Turkish citizenship to dozens of Turkish Jews living in France to save them from being deported. Once, he boarded a train bound for Auschwitz with about 70 Turkish Jews. After more than an hour, he persuaded the Nazi guards to let the Jews leave.
hasnt it always been the case that coke was not anti semetic. pepsi always had issues.
we are a coke/sprite/dasani family!
Moral of the story? Drink Coke!Don’t drive Mercedes!
My mother’s entire extended family was saved from the gas chambers by righteous Turkish Muslims. I have tears in my eyes reading this.
I wish more Jews would be taught about the heroic role that so many Muslims took in saving Jews from Hitler. Yad Vashem all but ignores the half a million Jews who were saved by Muslims.
I wish all the best of continued success and blessing to this righteous man from a righteous family.