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Swimsuit 'Beauty Professor'
burned in battle with three Turkish beauties

Zeki Bey oversteps -- and gets his just desserts...
From top left thru to right:
Zeki Başeskioğlu, Sibel Can, Gülben Ergen, Hülya Avşar

Beauty Professor loses to Turkish Beauties

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Thanks to Gözcü Gazetesi -- 9 June 2006

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Swimsuit King
goes down!

Anyone who knows anything about women's designer swimwear is familiar with the Zeki Triko brand -- whose retail bathing suit prices make us blanch. The Turkish company's founder/owner, Zeki Başeskioğlu is internationally famous, his bathing suits routinely show up in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue, and he has boosted the careers of any number of world-class super-models including Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, and Eva Herzigova.
Now in his 70's, Zeki has been cast by some in the media as a 'professor of beauty' -- and the other day he let it go to his head. In an interview for Hafta Sonu Dergisi (one of Turkey's largest selling weekly magazines), he said that 3 of Turkey's most popular female mega-stars were over the hill and too fat to wear his bikini bathing suits anymore. And he named names...Hülya Avşar, Gülben Ergen and Sibel Can. Ouch! You can't get any bigger than that.
"To wear a bikini well you need to be tall, elegant -- and to have beautiful, upstanding breasts," he said. As for Hülya, Gülben and Sibel, well... the professor advised, "The bikini age for those 3 is past. They've all become too fat. Because of that, they each need to switch out of bikinis and into one piece suits -- which are much more appropriate for them."
Rumors of volcano eruptions in the camps of the 3 beauties surfaced immediately in the Turkish press, but five days passed before just one of the ladies offered up a public riposte to the Zeki Bey insult. And it was a zinger. Asked by a Hürriyet Gazetesi reporter about her opinion of 'Professor' Zeki's remark, Gülben Ergen said, "I really can't say -- because I don't wear (cheap) locally-made bikinis like his." You could almost hear the cheers from the other two beauties as 'the Professor' sank below the surface, in flames.