Turkcell Says Suit Over MTN-Iran Deal Can Proceed in U.S.
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Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS, Turkey’s biggest mobile-phone operator, asked a U.S. judge to allow its lawsuit against South Africa’s MTN Group Ltd. to proceed, arguing American courts have authority to oversee a case involving a wireless service deal in Iran.
Turckcell, in a filing today in Washington, denied that its lawsuit alleging bribery by MTN Group Ltd., Africa’s largest wireless provider, is merely a commercial dispute between two non-U.S. companies that doesn’t trigger a 1789 law giving the federal court jurisdiction to consider the case.