{"id":50117,"date":"2013-11-27T09:50:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T07:50:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=50117"},"modified":"2013-11-27T09:56:35","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T07:56:35","slug":"turkcell-files-fresh-lawsuit-against-mtn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/mobile\/50117\/turkcell-files-fresh-lawsuit-against-mtn\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkcell files fresh lawsuit against MTN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turkish mobile phone company Turkcell said it has opened a lawsuit in South Africa against rival telecoms company MTN Group seeking damages for losses that Turkcell said it had incurred.<\/p>\n<p>Turkcell 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. It dropped the case in May, citing a recent US Supreme Court ruling that hurt its case.<\/p>\n<p>Turkcell said in the statement it had opened the case on Tuesday in the South Gauteng high court in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on MTN and Turkcell<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Turkcell withdraws MTN lawsuit\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/36988\/turkcell-withraws-mtn-lawsuit\/\"><strong>Turkcell withdraws MTN lawsuit<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkcell has opened a lawsuit in South Africa against MTN Group seeking damages for losses that Turkcell said it had incurred.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":8984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[26,28,1292],"class_list":["post-50117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","tag-headline","tag-mtn","tag-turkcell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117","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=50117"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50119,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50117\/revisions\/50119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}