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Key Facts About Turkish Tourism

• Great geographical advantage - one quarter of the world’s population can be reached within four hours of flight time.
• Tourism is the fastest developing sector in Turkey.

February 14, 2008
Published in Tourism
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Finding the Beat; the Nightlife of Istanbul

By Katherine Belliel
Istanbul is a city where not only the view amazes. As day turns to night, many locals and visitors head out for a night on the town that in 2007 Newsweek called “the coolest in the world.” Istanbul goes to bed really late, and sometimes never sleeps at all.

February 15, 2008
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We Are Competing Against Each Other

Atasay, Altinbas and Arpas are the three Turkish companies who started operating on the 46th and 47th Streets of downtown Manhattan. The region, which is currently home to 25 Turkish jewelry companies, is known as the heart of the gold market.

November 15, 2004
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The Rising Trade Mark in the World Market: Turkish Jewelry

By Kursad Tuzmen*

Anatolia is one of the oldest lands where jewelry has been produced and used. Jewelry has played an important role in this land, be it for religious, artistic or financial purposes. Currently, the Turkish jewelry sector has a history of 5000 years.

October 15, 2006
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Leader of the World of Chains

Istor Kuyumculuk, based in Istanbul, Turkey is one of the strongest jewellery manufacturing companies in Turkey. The wholesale showroom is located in the Bazaar-Market Of Gold Jewelry in Istanbul, and there is also a branch office in New York, USA.

October 15, 2006
Published in Jewelry
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Polat Gold is Determined to Become a Brand

Polat Gold is established as a manufacturing company in1964. Polat Gold, which continues its production in its 32300 square feet factory premises with all its employees who has adopted the principle of superior quality and customer satisfaction, exports all of its produce.

October 15, 2006
Published in Jewelry
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Turkish Delight on 5th Avenue

The Geylan family, who was displaced from Bursa, Yenisehir County to the Kosovo region of Yugoslavia, by the Ottoman Empire in the 14th century, after the War of Kosovo, established and lived in Gilan Village.

October 15, 2006
Published in Jewelry
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Importing Jewelry Into The United States

By C.J. Ericsson *
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US Customs and Border Protection (“CBP”) is responsible for enforcing the laws and regulations of over forty government agencies. Importers of jewelry must be compliant not only with CBP requirements, but those of the Department of Treasury, Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and Transportation Security Administration, to name a few.

October 15, 2006
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Transition from Tradesmanship to Industry

Ahmet Karbeyaz*

The goldsmith sector is a fast-improving one in Turkey, a country which is home to arts, crafts and industry simultaneously. Goldsmithery, which also is one of the powerhouse sectors of Turkey in terms of production, investment and employment, has begun to break free of its tradesman structure and has started to become an industry.

October 15, 2006
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Golden Reflections on the Emerald Sword

By Lemi Özgen

The tall, squarely-built, fifteen-year-old boy had been working hard in the goldsmith workshop. As he was just about to tie a knot on the silk-thin gold wire he had just meticulously pulled and extended, it snapped once again. The young man's face, which was already red with perspiration, burnt even more.

October 15, 2006
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The History of Accessories in Anatolia

By Altan Ture*
The grand master of Turkish poetry, Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu, describes Anatolia as a Goddess.
Truthfully these lands have been rising on the world stage since the Neolithic Age. These lands have been home to the greatest cultures,which have reached their peaks.

October 15, 2006
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Coca-Cola Explores Energy Drink Bolt-On

On Monday, April 30, the Wall Street Journal broke a story reporting that Coca-Cola (KO) was in discussions to purchase energy drinks company Monster (MNST). Monster's share price swelled 20% on the news - its market cap popping up $2 billion to roughly $13 billion - but Coca-Cola ultimately decided to walk away from the deal. Coca-Cola CEO Muhtar Kent said late Monday that, "at this time," the company is not in talks to buy Monster. Monster's share price fell back to its pre-news market cap of around $11 billion.

May 3, 2012
Published in Case Studies
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Outward Direct Investments Nearing $24bn

Almost 3,500 Turkish companies are currently operating in 103 countries. Nearing $24bn, Turkish outward direct investments intensify in energy, banking, communications, manufacturing and commerce. According to a study from the Ankara Trade Chamber based on Treasury and Central Bank data, outward direct investments, at a mere $3.7bn by 2001, shot up to $23.6bn as of September 2010. Therefore, near $20bn of the Turkish investment abroad has been made in the past decade.

February 1, 2011
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An Over 100-Year-Old History of Turkish Sephardic Jews in Seattle

Temple de Hirsch exterior, 15th Avenue and E. Union St., Seattle, ca. 1908-1914. (Photo: University of Washington Libraries. Special Collections Division)

According to the M.A. thesis of Albert Adatto, a student of University of Washington in 1939, (“Sephardim and the Seattle Sephardic Community”), the first two Sephardic Jews Jack Policar (d. 1961) and Solomo Calvo (d. 1964), arrived in Seattle from the island of Marmara, Turkey in 1902. The first Turkish Jew to arrive in Seattle is thought to have been David Levy in 1900. In 1904, they met Nissim Alhadeff, who had arrived that year from the Isle of Rhodes, between Greece and Turkey, in a Seattle Greek Café.

October 6, 2009
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