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In 1451, Constantinople, the last outpost of the Eastern Roman Empire, was all that stood between consolidation of the Ottoman Empire from Turkey across the Bosporus to the Balkans. The cold war of its time, tensions simmered since the birth of Islam—and roiled the splintered Christian factions of the West. 
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The government of Turkey has asked the J. Paul Getty Museum and several other American museums to return artifacts that it believes were looted. The Turkish government has contacted the Getty, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Cleveland Museum of Art and Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection to present evidence that objects in their collections may have been illegally excavated from the country's archaeological sites, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday. It has threatened to halt all loans of art to those institutions until they respond to the claims.
Stepevi, a Turkish rug company known for its rich, textural designs, will open its first North American outpost next week in SoHo. The company was started about seven years ago (although the family behind it has been in the business since the early 1900s) and currently has showrooms in London, Paris, Milan and Istanbul. SoHo was the natural next step, said Aysegul Yurekli Sengor, the managing director and wife of the founder, Cem Sengor.
A Turkish entrepreneur has expanded his business by introducing lokum, also known as Turkish delight, to Russians, who have quickly taken to the taste of the sweet dessert. Entrepreneur Ali Yılmaz, who is from the western province of Denizli, moved to St. Petersburg in 1999 to study and at the same time started selling small packages of lokum to Russians. He rented a small storage unit where he kept packages of lokum and delivered orders himself directly to his customers’ doors. He said, “Now, those days are over.” The new Turkish historical epic “Fetih 1453” (The Conquest 1453) defeated “Recep İvedik 2” and has become Turkey's all-time most watched film in just 18 days. “Fetih 1453” opened in 850 theaters across Turkey with 500 prints last month, and it managed to sell 1,161,250 tickets in its first weekend, becoming the second-best opening of all time after “Recep İvedik 2,” which sold 1.2 million tickets in the first three days after its release on Feb. 13, 2009. 
News Corp. (NWSA) Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch held talks with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey’s capital Ankara. Murdoch met with Erdogan at his office at 5 p.m. today for about an hour. Turkey is an important market for News Corp. and it wants to expand its investments in the country, Murdoch told Erdogan, said a government official, who declined to be identified because the talks were private.
Comodo (comodo.com), a leading certificate authority and Internet security solutions provider, today broke new ground with the announcement of a mobile app that enables small business IT staff to manage endpoint security from a smartphone. Released to the Microsoft Windows Phone Marketplace today, the Comodo Endpoint Security Manager Console for Microsoft Windows® Phone mobile app takes full advantage of the latest "Mango" phones and alerts users to changes in the endpoint security status of their environment. 
The "Ottoman Clock" in Mexico City is the only Ottoman trace in Mexico. The "Ottoman Clock" stands at the intersection of Venustiano Carranza and Bolivar streets at the Zocalo square in downtown Mexico City. The clock tower is decorated with ceramics. On the tower is a label that reads "To Mexico from the Ottomans-September 1910" in Spanish language. 
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has met with Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt to discuss cooperation between the government and the world's number one Internet and software company with regards to a major education project that requires the procurement of millions of tablet PCs. 
According to Britain-based The Art Newspaper, Turkey is refusing to lend artifacts to leading British and American museums until the issue of disputed antiquities is resolved. The ban means Turkey will not lend artifacts to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and London’s British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), reported The Art Newspaper. 
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. 
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. 
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.
