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Prince Cengiz Nazim's Funeral Will be Held On Monday, November 23rd

HIH Prince Cengiz Nazim. (Photo: Bilgin Sasmaz, AA)

Prince Gengiz Nazim Efendi, 75, of Greensboro, NC, passed away suddenly Wednesday, November 18, 2015 at New Hanover Hospital in Wilmington, NC. He was born November 20, 1939 in Cairo, Egypt to Turkish parents.Gengiz received his primary education at the English School in Cairo and his secondary schooling in Lebanon, where he graduated from the National College of Choueifat in 1958.

November 21, 2015
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Behind the Scenes of Turkey's $1B Hair Transplant Industry

Hair transplants are a $1 billion big business in Turkey, where there are around 350 clinics in Istanbul alone and some 5,000 people descend on the country each month to get a more luxurious head of hair. It’s a strange world, one that photographer Emanuele Satolli reveals in his riveting series Turkish Hair Farmers. He goes into operating rooms where bright lights illuminate scalps prepped for surgery, and into the streets where patients play tourist with their families afterward. “It’s very common to see men with bandages visiting museums, walking on the streets or eating in the restaurants,” Satolli says. “They are alone, with their wife and children, or with other friends all who underwent the operation. It’s very strange and interesting at the same time.”

November 20, 2015
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Comodo's Market Leadership As The Number One Global Digital Certificate Authority Continues

Clifton, NJ, November 6, 2015 — The Comodo organization, a global innovator and developer of cyber security solutions, today announced that for the ninth consecutive month, Comodo has increased its global market share leadership position as the number one Digital Certificate authority in the world. According to the published(1) October monthly data by w3techs.com, an independent IT market research firm, Comodo has captured 39.1% of the SSL certificate authority market, further increasing its number one position from last month, and furthering its lead over Symantec, which drops to an all-time low of 29.9%.

November 20, 2015
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Superyacht Marina Opening in Miami in December

Mehmet Bayraktar (left), chairman and CEO of the Flagstone Property Group, walks with Miami Mayor Tom

November 19, 2015
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SNC: ORBITEC Completes Testing of Rocket Propellants

Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced that Orbital Technologies Corporation (ORBITEC) has successfully completed testing of not one but three different propellant combinations. These are planned for use on the 30,000-pound thrust vortex rocket engine. According to a release issued by Sierra Nevada Corporation (ORBITEC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of SNC), ORBITEC completed its efforts in less than a year’s time.

November 19, 2015
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HIH Prince Cengiz Nazim Passed Away

HIH Prince Cengiz Nazim.

HIH Prince Cengiz Nazim, the fourth oldest Prince of Ottoman family, passed away in Greensboro, NC. He had a stoke when he was playing golf at the morning, on November 18th. Prince Cengiz Nazim, who was born in Cairo in November 1939 as the first of the three sons of Prince Mehmed Nazim , the grandson of Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, who sat on the throne of the Ottoman Empire between 1909 and 1918, was the fourth oldest Prince among the Princes living today. He was living in the US since 1960 and attended university here as well. The details of the funeral service is not announced yet by the family. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan also called Suzanne Hanımefendi, the Prince's wife to share his sorrow.

November 19, 2015
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Turkish Actor Engin Akyurek Nominated for Best Actor at 2015 Int Emmy Awards

New York (November 19, 2015) – The International Academy of Television Arts & Sciences recently announced that Turkish actor Engin Akyurek has been nominated in the “Best Performance by an Actor” category for the 2015 International Emmy® Awards. This is Akyurek’s first nomination for the prestigious prize. A total of 40 nominees have been selected, spanning 10 categories and 19 countries. Winners will be announced at a black-tie ceremony on November 23, 2015 at the Hilton New York Hotel. Media credentials are required for all media interested in covering. The form must be completed and submitted by Friday, November 20. For media credentials to cover the 2015 International Emmy Awards, please visit: http://bit.ly/IEmmyPressCredentials

November 19, 2015
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Amerika'nin En Etkin Turkleri Odullerini Aldi

ABD'de 2002'den beri yayın yapan TURKOFAMERICA Dergisi tarafından seçilen Amerika'nın En Etkin Türkleri ödüllerini aldı. New York Times Square Marriott Marquis Hotel'de gerçekleştirilen gecede, Nevada'dan Tennessee'ye, Maryland'tan New Jersey'e kadar farklı eyaletlerde yaşayan Türkler bir araya geldi. Türkler arasında gerçekleştirilen ilk çalışma olma özelliği taşıyan ödül gecesinde bir konuşma yapan Brooklyn Belediye Başkanı Adams, davetlilerden büyük alkış topladı.

October 21, 2015
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The Sultan in New York

HIH Prince Bayezid Osman (Courtsey of Peter Constantine)

By Cemil Ozyurt - TURKOFAMERICA has brought together in New York Prince Bayazıd, the Head of the Ottoman Dynasty; Prince Cengiz Nazım, the son of the grandchild of the Sultan Mehmed V; Princess Nejla Chawky, the great-granddaughter of Sultan Abdülmecid; and Mediha Nami de Martinez, the great-granddaughter of Sultan Abdülhamid II.

July 25, 2015
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"My Heart Belongs to America, But My Soul Belongs to Turkey"

HIH Prince Cengiz Hanim and his wife Suzanne Hanimefendi at their New York visit.

When he arrived at Atatürk Airport in 1960 to make a connection to his flight, his heart was about to skip a beat. He was flying to London from Cairo with a transit over İstanbul and he was going to stay in İstanbul for one night. For the first time, he was going to see the lands where his father, who had left the country with the passing of 3 March 1924 exile rule, was born, and, the city where his grandfathers had ruled. When he got off the plane and rode into İstanbul, passing The Old Walls with the Turkish flag flying above, he got emotional and could not hold back his tears.

July 25, 2015
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The Hanim Sultan of the United Nations

Fatma Samire Sultan with her mother Samiye Sultan and His father HIH Prince Abdulhalim. (Courtesy of Nejla Chawky)

Nejla Chawky is the only ‘Hanım Sultan’(Imperial Princess) living in the United States. Her mother, Princess

Nejla Hanimsultan with her mother Fatma Samire Sultan. (Courtesy of Nejla Chawky Hanimsultan)

Fatma Samire, was the daughter of Prince Mehmed Abdulhalim. Members of the Ottoman Dynasty who bore the title “hanım sultan” were the daughters of an Imperial Princess. Princess Nejla was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where her father was Egypt’s Ambassador. Her first schooling was in Romania where, after Brazil, her father served as Ambassador.

July 25, 2015
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The Prince Who Was Killed in a New York Hotel

New York Times article about Prince Abdulkerim's death.

On August 4, 1935, the front-page headline of newspapers throughout the United States announced that Prince Abdülkerim had committed suicide in a room in the Cadillac Hotel, located on 43rd Street and Broadway in New York. The young Prince had 75 cents in his pocket, the newspapers said, and claimed that he had left a letter in Turkish to the New York’s chief of police. The police did not show the letter to the press; only later was it allegedly translated into English by an official of the Turkish Consulate in New York and presented to the media. This news also hit the front page of the New York Times. In this letter, the young Prince was said to have claimed that he had fallen ill trying to regain his dynasty and throne; he had proposed marriage to a rich woman from the Bronx, Alice De Stefano, believing that such a marriage would allow him to realize his dreams. Her rejection caused him to fall into a depression and, as a result, he could not think of any other way out except by committing suicide.

July 25, 2015
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Mediha Nami Martinez, An Ottoman Princess in Mexico

Mediha Nami with HIH Prince Bayezid Osman at her New York visit.

It was a warm spring night. A group of people gathered at the Bergen Turkish-American Mosque and Cultural Center in Cliffside Park, New Jersey. They were very enthusiastic about their guest who would be watching a documentary about the‘Ottoman Family in Exile’ with them. The 8-year-old-boy in the crowd was probably the most excited one of all. He was expecting to see the Princess with a crown, and he came with his plastic sword to protect her. The honored guest was Mediha Nami Osmanoğlu de Martinez who is the oldest daughter of Osman Nami, who is Abülhamid’s daughter Ayşe Sultan’s son. She watched the documentary with tears along with the participants.

July 25, 2015
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The Ottoman Prince of New York's High Society

The article about Prince Burhaneddin's party at his home in Maine.

The eighth child and the fourth son of Sultan Abdülhamid II, Prince Mehmed Burhaneddin is also among the Ottoman Dynasty members who lived and passed away here in the United States. Born in 1885 at Yıldız Palace in İstanbul, Prince Burhaneddin was Abdülhamid II’s favorite son and was known for his intelligence. It is said that when he was barely in his twenties, his father sought to declare him the heir to the Ottoman throne, causing a great uproar among conservative factions that insisted on the traditional line of succession, his father had wanted to declare him the Veliaht (the Heir) to the Ottoman throne. He had been a colonel in the Ottoman navy, a composer, a painter, and a virtuoso pianist and violinist. He had two extremely rare pianos of which only four still exist in the world.

July 25, 2015
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