After asking a question about Russian treason arrests at a Russia investment breakfast in London while working for Reuters, the event organiser refused to allow me into a Turkey investment conference. By shielding themselves from reality, investors get it catastrophically wrong.
It seems fundamental that you would want to know that people are being arrested for contacts with foreigners. From a business point of view, never mind human rights.
Why do investors want to go to events that talk only about why it's great to invest in a country?
The event organiser was New Sparta Events, which has a lot of tweets about Turkey and Iran investment events, but hasn't tweeted for over a year.
