EUR: Turkish company sees boom in sales of "Bush shoes"
20 Dec 2008 3:30 AM
The Turkish shoe company making the brand of footware used by an Iraqi journalist .. who threw his shoes at GEORGE W BUSH .. has seen a surge in orders.
RAMAZAN BAYDAN .. owner of the shoe factory in Istanbul of the same name .. says he's received orders in the past week for some 300 thousand pairs of the model that was thrown at the US president.
The entrepreneur wants to rename the model .. a brown leather shoe with a thick sole .. as the "Bush shoes".
