NEIL CAVUTO, HOST: Well, you go, or is that yogurt? I don't know, because whatever Chobani Yogurt is doing, it is certainly bearing fruit for Chobani. Company founder Hamdi Ulukaya says that Americans' taste for his slightly thicker Greek yogurt, with all the dizzying array of separate fruit compartment flavors, well, it is so big, he is going even bigger, plunking down more than $250 million into planned expansions across this country that will increase production from 1.5 million cases week to more than two million. And that could be just for starters.
Entrepreneur Hakan Ilhan owns a total of 21 successful fast casual eateries and gourmet markets in the Washington area including Gelato Dolce Vita in Georgetown, three Cafe Cantinas, three Einstein Bros. Bagels shops, nine Pizza Autenticas, City Wok at Dulles and the National Airport Grill. The Turkish native, who was educated in London before relocating to the USA in 1990, is now turning his sights to open a sleek, modern Italian restaurant in his own neighborhood of Northwest DC, La Forchetta at 3201 New Mexico Avenue, 20016. 
The Turkey Now! festival, which brings together the best in Turkish music, dance, theater and film, kicks off in Amsterdam on Thursday and will run for a full three months. The opening event will see the renowned Dutch Metropole Orkest team up with Leman Sam, the diva of Anatolian pop-folk music, and her two daughters, Şevval and Şehnaz, at Amsterdam’s RAI theater. The same show will also be performed in Rotterdam and Eindhoven over the weekend. 
ISTANBUL, Feb 3 (Reuters) - French construction group Vinci and a partnership between U.S. private equity firm Carlyle Group and the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) are the leading bidders in a race for a near 40 percent stake in Turkish airport operator TAV Havalimanlari Holding , three sources close to the deal told Reuters on Friday.
Deloitte & Touche LLP is “optimistic” about mergers and acquisitions in Turkey in 2012, mostly in medium-sized companies, and expects government plans to sell assets to dominate activity. Energy, retail, internet retail, food and banking will lead Turkey’s M&A transactions this year, Deloitte Turkey’s corporate-finance partner Basak Vardar said in an emailed statement. The country had 241 M&A transactions last year, the highest in Turkey’s history, valued at about $15 billion, and foreign investors accounted for 74 percent of the total value of those deals, Vardar said. 
Coca Cola (NYSE:KO) will invest more than $3 billion in the U.S. alone in the coming year, according to the company’s Chief Executive Mr. Muhtar Kent. [1] Mr. Kent also sounded optimistic about the U.S. recovery and said that the country has a bright future ahead. Coca Cola enjoys a very strong brand recognition within the country, so an improved economic environment could really help the company in the long run. Recently, the company also invested $980 million buying a stake in Aujan Industries in the Middle East. Coca Cola currently competes with companies like Pepsi (NYSE:PEP) and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group (NYSE:DPS) and other domestic players.
Hasan Tuluy, a Turkish national and a strong supporter of inclusive growth, will become the new World Bank Vice President for Latin America and the Caribbean as of January 1st, 2012. Mr. Tuluy will oversee the Bank’s lending, knowledge, and poverty-fighting operations in the region, which totaled US$9.6 billion in fiscal year 2011, according to The World Bank .
Yves-Marie Laouenan, deputy chairman of the Turkish-French Trade Association, stated that the bill that makes denial of the alleged Armenian genocide a punishable crime, which passed in the French Lower House on Dec. 22, was approved by a small community and does not represent the majority of French people. 
Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz has said that direct investments in energy sector exceeded 3.5 billion USD in 2011 in Turkey. The share of private sector was over 60 percent in energy production in 2011, added Yildiz who held a press conference in Ankara on Thursday. 
Turkey attracted a new investment valued at $510 million by India’s Aditya Birla Group, a $35 billion multinational company, to establish a viscose staple fibre (VSF) plant in the southern province of Adana, company officials told a press conference Thursday in İstanbul while they said the group mulled over new investments in the country.
In a resolution hailed by Armenian-American groups but criticized by Ankara, the U.S. House of Representatives urged Turkey late on Tuesday to respect religious freedom and return Armenian and other Christian worship sites to their “rightful owners.” The resolution drafted by two California lawmakers, Republican Ed Royce and Democrat Howard Berman, is virtually identical with legislation approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. It said the Turkish authorities should “end all forms of religious discrimination” of the country’s Christian minorities. 
Gov. Chris Christie was on hand during the official opening of a new 226,000-square-foot sales and distribution center for Coca-Cola on Deans Rhode Hall Road on Tuesday. "This is an extraordinary facility; it is state of the art," Gov. Christie said. "They (Coca-Cola) could have chosen to build it anywhere, but they chose here." 
Comodo, a leading Internet security provider, is spotlighting an unprecedented user response reported by a social media analytics firm as further evidence that "real world" reviews are an increasingly valuable source of information for consumers comparing Internet security solutions. Last week Amplicate, a social media analytics service that tracks more than 170 million opinions from more than 33 million social media users, reported "tens of thousands" of users had responded to Comodo's recent social media outreach, helping to increase the company's "positive rating" from 56 percent to 96 percent in the space of a single day. 
