President Barack Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Richard Drew/AP
President Obama addressed the United Nations General Assembly this morning, his final speech before the international governing body. As he nears the end of his two terms in office, the president spoke about some of his administration's biggest foreign policy initiatives, including the importance of the Paris climate accord, the nuclear deal with Iran and fighting the Ebola epidemic in West Africa. He also talked about the ongoing, multisided war in Syria. His speech comes the day after a cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia collapsed, in part because of distrust sowed by an accidental strike by a U.S-led coalition aircraft that killed Syrian soldiers over the weekend. And on Monday, an aid convoy in Syria was attacked from the air.
A recusation demand submitted by arrested Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab’s lawyers against his case’s judge has been rejected for “lacking merit,” despite the defense’s attempts to validate the demand by quoting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Southern District of New York judge Richard Berman rejected the Aug. 30 demand from the defense for his replacement, saying that it lacked merit, adding that the defense did not appeal for such a demand during the first hearing of the case on April 27, even though it had been announced by the judge himself that he attended a panel in Istanbul in 2014 and made critical statements about the Turkish legal system, an incident which later formed the basis of the defense’s recusation appeal. 
Turkey’s leading investment banking services and asset management group, ÜNLÜ & Co, has announced it has set its sights on becoming the leading investment bank in the region. As a step toward this goal, which requires an on-the-ground presence in the finance capitals of the world, UNLU & Co has obtained a license for brokerage activities and opened an office in New York, the bank said in a press release on Sept. 30. The company said it also aimed to step into the Iranian market in a gradual manner. 
RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) ? Sparks' Sierra Nevada Corporation joins forces with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs for the first-ever United Nations space mission. It's an effort to provide developing countries the chance to fly for an extended time in space. SNC's spokesperson Brooke Hart said that this is SNC's founders Eren and Fatih Ozmen giving back. "They want to make sure they can take their success and pay it forward to future generations of innovators," she said.
Former Turkish military officials and a Turkish journalist who were imprisoned by the judicial authorities that are linked to the Pennsylvania-based cult leader imam Fethullah G 
Washington- A network of more than 150 U.S. charter schools linked to followers of Fethullah Gulen, the Pennsylvania-based cleric the Turkish government blames for instigating July?s failed coup, has come under growing financial and legal strain, according to school officials, current and former members of Gulen?s movement, and public records reviewed by Reuters. The publicly financed schools, a key source of jobs and business opportunities for U.S. members of Gulen?s global movement, have sharply slowed their expansion in recent years, public records show.
Lindsay Lohan reportedly sobs as she greets paralyzed Syrian refugee in Istanbul. American actress Lindsay Lohan reportedly burst in tears when visiting Syrian refugees at a hospital in Istanbul on Monday. Accompanied by Turkey's Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports Abdurrahim Boynukalin, Lohan greeted a Syrian man from Aleppo with both of his legs paralyzed.
NEW YORK CITY - The Washington, DC based Global Policy Institute, (GPI), a non-partisan think-tank, on September 23 held an event at the Harvard Club in New York City aimed at analyzing the July 15 failed military coup in Turkey. In front of a very large audience, Turkish senior policy-makers, along with Turkish and U.S. senior experts, discussed various aspects of the failed coup and the key role played in it by supporters of Fethullah Gulen, a Muslim cleric living in the U.S. now accused by Turkish authorities of being the master mind of the military action aimed at toppling the elected government. 
20 September 2016 Drawing particular attention to the nearly six year crisis in Syria where hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced, the President of Turkey called for urgent action to stop the conflict and persecution in the country. "When will the United Nations and the Security Council stop tolerating the [Syrian] regime's policy of 'either surrender or die,' which condemn the civilians to hunger" President Recep Tayyip Erdogan asked world leaders in his address at the UN General Assembly. "Syrian people are being exhausted in the grip of proxy wars which have been shaped by a cruel administration, merciless terrorist organizations, global and regional competition," he added. 
A Turkish businessman who was living in New York has died after he was attacked with a baseball bat during a brawl that erupted over his decision to relieve himself on private property. Kayhan Som, 56, told his driver to pull over due to his need to use the bathroom while he was heading from Manhattan to Whitestone neighborhood last week. 
Already strained Turkish-U.S. relations have been further soured after Gülenist Terror Group (FETÖ) member Ahmet Sait Yayla was invited to speak to a congressional panel Wednesday that focused on the developments in Turkey and the July 15 Gülenist coup attempt. Yayla is a former police chief who was suspended from duty due to his alleged links to the terrorist group. Despite that, he was able to testify before the U.S. Congress on a hotbed topic: the July 15 coup attempt. Having understood that he cannot stay in Turkey as a terrorist group member, Yayla, who was chairman of the sociology department at Harran University, and a former Gülenist police chief, fled to the U.S. last November after it became public that he had links to FETÖ leader Fethullah Gülen. 
Since the launch of TCA's Syrian Refugee Campaign in June 2016, TCA has distributed humanitarian grants to several organizations working directly on the ground with Syrian refugees in Turkey. These organizations include Refugee Volunteers of Izmir (ReVi), Butun Cocuklar Bizim (All Children are Ours), and Sureli Destek (Periodic Support).
After drafting two teenage skilled big men in June, the Suns have hired Mehmet Okur as a player development coach to help them reach their potential. Okur, 37, retired four years ago after a 10-season NBA career in which he was a 2007 All-Star and was known as a clutch NBA shooting big man. Okur is best known for his seven-year run in Utah, where his last season (2010-11) was spent with Suns head coach Earl Watson as a Jazz teammate and new Suns assistant coach Tyrone Corbin as the Jazz head coach. 
