Turkey's economic policy chief Kemal Dervis, stands in front of a portrait of Ataturk, founder of the Turkish republic, while addressing a news conference in Istanbul's Ataturk Airport March 30, 2001. State Minister Dervis said on Friday, before returning to Ankara from a fund-raising trip to Germany, France and the United States, that he was optimistic the country will win the economic support from abroad it needs to pull itself out of financial crisis.

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