Probe launched into businessman Koç over Kurdish woman joke
İZMİR
Prosecutors have opened a probe into Rahmi Koç, a 95-year-old billionaire and honorary head of Koç Holding, Türkiye’s biggest conglomerate, over a joke about a Kurdish woman widely denounced as sexist and racist.
The blunder was made by Koç at the opening of a hospital in the western province of İzmir late on June 5, but when the footage started circulating online, it caused a backlash.
The joke revolved around a misunderstanding between a Kurdish woman and a doctor, drawing the ire of both the public and political figures.
