Career
Nadir studied economics at Istanbul University, but returned to Cyprus before graduation to set up a clothing business. He returned to London in the 1960s, but after the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974, accepted the appeal of the authorities to bolster the new region economically. He took over the running of a formerly Greek owned clothing factory in Nicosia, where he greatly expanded exports to the Middle East.
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