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Turkey's Honorary Consul Positive About Georgia Ties in 2011

Mona Diamond was appointed the Turkish honorary consul general for the state of Georgia in 2005. In the same year, she became the chairman of the American Turkish Friendship Council, a not-for-profit organization for the promotion of close relations between the United States and Turkey.

In 2009, she organized and chaired an International Women’s Entrepreneurship and Leadership Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, and in September 2010, she partnered with two Turkish American business organizations and the American Chamber of Commerce Executives to head a delegation of civic and business leaders from throughout the U.S. to several Turkish cities.

Ms. Diamond responded to the following questions from GlobalAtlanta about her current activities in promoting relations between Georgia and Turkey as well as her plans for the coming year, including her efforts to open a breast cancer clinic in Mersin, Turkey.

December 29, 2010
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Huma Gruaz Named Brand Marketer of the Year Finalist

Chicago, IL – Huma Gruaz, founder and president of Alpaytac Inc., has been named one of the nation’s top three “Brand Marketers of the Year” by PR News. Gruaz was honored at the 2008 PR People Awards in Washington D.C.

January 6, 2009
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The First Turkish Physical Therapist in Dortmund

Dortmund, Germany - It is possible to meet people in every kind of profession among the Turkish population living in Germany. The second generation of Turks are inclined to prefer areas requiring more specialization as compared to other sectors; having the advantage of being fluent in two languages, they are able to move towards different professional areas.

August 29, 2008
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Luca Luca: The Moment That A Star Shone

Austrian writer Stefan Zweig's book "Moments When the Star Shone" focuses on twelve names in world history and how certain moments affected the generally important roles they played in the past, no matter how short their times on "center stage" were.

March 15, 2007
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Interior Designer Who Brings Cultures Together

On a recent trip to New York to gather political support, Oz Bengur introduced his sister Sara to the crowd gathered in the room by saying: “I am sure you know more about my famous interior designer sister than you know about me.”

March 15, 2006
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Carried Payless to Japan

“What kind of a life would you have after moving to Witchita, with 344,000 inhabitants, after the metropolis of Istanbul?” she thought. Kansas, in the heart of the US, the most windy state of the country.

May 15, 2006
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The Director on the Trail of the Sultan

Muge Mengu – New York
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Such discussion topics as whether art is innovative anymore, or claims such as the visual arts have reached their boundaries, have lost their meaning in the technological age. While computer media give us the opportunity to modify the moving image in thousands of ways, the opportunities of the seventh art, cinema, have also remarkably increased.

August 15, 2005
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An Iron Lady at Picasso: Sevin Otgunc

When ranked according to their turnover, Picasso Travel is one of the first five tourism agencies in the U.S. Sevin Otgunc is a female executive in charge of the expanding trend of the company and she has been directing the operation in the New York Office for 14 years. Picasso Travel, whose headquarters is in Los Angeles, opened its first branch in New York in 1990. Picasso Travel’s New York branch provides $55M of the company’s total sales volume which is reported as $135M in 2003.

February 15, 2004
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Doctor of Doctors in Dallas: Fatma G

There are events, which made Dallas well known in Turkey as well as in the entire world. The city, where the only catholic U.S. president, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated and is home to oil billionaires is identified in our country with the well-known TV series Dallas, depicting the adventures of J.R. and Bobby Ewing.

February 15, 2004
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Discovering Stars: Feryal Ozel

The name of Feryal Özel is listed under “Big Ideas,” one of the twenty names of well-known scientists like Einstein and John Nash. As a Hubble post-doctorate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies of National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA), Özel is researching the formation of our universe, stars, black holes, and the Big Bang theory.

February 15, 2004
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25th Largest Company in Chicago: Emel Singer

Every year, Crain’s Chicago Business Magazine ranks the women-owned companies in Chicago, Illinois, based on their annual sales revenue. The list includes other indicators such as number of annual income, number of employees and annual changes compared to the year before. The only pre-condition for a company to be included in the list is to be owned –at least by 50%- by a woman.

February 15, 2004
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First Turk in the Metropolitan Opera: Bengi Mayone

On the cover of Art and Entertainment section of The Palm Beach Post Newspaper, published in Florida last August, there is an opera singer smiling in her red night gown. Her name is Bengi Mayone. The news article is about her successful track record in the Palm Beach Opera in Miami.

February 15, 2004
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Offering Solutions to Financial Crises

WASHINGTON, D.C. - World Bank is one of the largest organizations employing about 10 thousand employees from 160 different countries. Approximately 150 Turks are working in different units of the World Bank Headquarters which is located in Washington, D.C.