{"id":36988,"date":"2013-05-02T08:55:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T06:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=36988"},"modified":"2013-05-02T13:56:13","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:56:13","slug":"turkcell-withraws-mtn-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/36988\/turkcell-withraws-mtn-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkcell withdraws MTN lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish telecom company <a title=\"Turkcell\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1645-Turkcell\">Turkcell<\/a> dropped its multibillion-dollar U.S. lawsuit against rival African mobile phone group <a title=\"MTN Group\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/1640-MTN-Group\">MTN Group<\/a>, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that hurt its case.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey&#8217;s largest cell phone operator filed a $4.2 billion lawsuit in Washington last year alleging the Johannesburg-based company used bribery to win a mobile license in Iran that was first awarded to Turkcell.<\/p>\n<p>But the court delayed the case in October pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Alien Tort Statute, the U.S. human rights law on which Turkcell&#8217;s suit is based.<\/p>\n<p>In April, the high court limited the ability of foreign plaintiffs to invoke the 200-year old law without a strong U.S. connection to the conduct.<\/p>\n<p>In a Wednesday filing, lawyers for Turkcell asked to dismiss the case in light of the Supreme Court ruling.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on Turkcell and MTN<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"US senator alerts MTN case to treasury\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/telecommunications\/32745\/us-senator-alerts-mtn-case-to-treasury\/\"><strong>US senator alerts MTN case to treasury<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Turkcell\u2019s MTN lawsuit put on hold\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24176\/turkcells-mtn-lawsuit-put-on-hold\/\">Turkcell\u2019s MTN lawsuit put on hold<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Hoffmann report clears MTN in Turkcell case\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/31028\/hoffmann-report-clears-mtn-in-turkcell-case\/\"><strong>Hoffmann report clears MTN in Turkcell case<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Turkcell's MTN lawsuit put on hold\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/24176\/turkcells-mtn-lawsuit-put-on-hold\/\"><strong>Turkcell\u2019s MTN lawsuit put on hold<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish telecom company Turkcell has dropped its multibillion-dollar U.S. lawsuit against rival African mobile phone group, MTN Group.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":9673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26,371,28,1292],"class_list":["post-36988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-headline","tag-lawsuit","tag-mtn","tag-turkcell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36988"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36990,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36988\/revisions\/36990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}