41.   The government has long planned to privatize the company.

42.   The government hopes that privatizing the company will make it efficient, help provide telephones to more people, and make a profit.

43.   The government has sought to clean up waste at CPC and increase revenues before moving to privatize the company.

44.   The government is in the process of privatizing the company and recently sold some of its shares on the stock market.

45.   The laws include a supplementary budget law, legislation to privatize state companies, reform state banks and facilitate the liquidation of bankrupt banks.

46.   The strikes could also affect confidential negotiations to find a foreign strategic partner and upset government plans to privatize the company, he said.

47.   The World Bank, the World Trade Organization and other foreign donors have frozen loans because of delays in privatizing state companies.

48.   The walkout was the latest sign of growing labor unrest generated by government plans to roll back pension agreements and privatize state companies.

49.   Those moves may carry symbolic weight, but many experts say the real solution is trimming the payroll, privatizing state companies and casting off unproductive enterprises.

50.   Turkey has put forward plans to slash state spending, reform its debt-ridden banking system and privatize companies.