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The Oscar of Philanthropy Goes to Koc Family

Rahmi Koc with the Mike Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, Sanford Weill, ex-chief executive officer of Citigroup and Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. (Photo: Courtesy of TurkishNY.com)

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, has deemed the Koç Family worthy of the “Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy,” the most prestigious philanthropy award in the world. Turkey's Koc family received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in a ceremony in New York.

October 16, 2009
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Barry Habib: A Guide to Mortgage Markets and a Producer of Broadway Shows

Barry with his wife Toni.

Barry is the youngest of five children of an immigrant family from Ortakoy, İstanbul. When the family decided to move away in 1958, like any immigrant who desired to come to the U.S., they thought that money lay scattered on the streets and all they had to do was just bend down and picked it up.

October 9, 2009
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A Long Journey from Edirne to the U.S.: The Mitrani Family Adventure

Norman Belmonte is front of the picture of Edirne Synagogue which his parents got married in 1913.

After 1492 many exiles from Spain came to Edirne (Adrianople), a town in Turkey located in eastern Thrace near the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian frontier, followed by refugees from Portugal, and Italy as well.
These new immigrants, who had different customs from the Romaniots, established their own congregations (kahal, pl. kehalim) according to their place of origin. In 1656 there were 15 different kehalim, most of them named after locations in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.

October 6, 2009
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A Blessing in Disguise

Bridgeport, CT - “A blessing in disguise,” is the best phrase to describe Hakki Akbulak’s business adventures in the U.S. Akbulak, a Turkish born businessman, left Turkey when he was 17 to attend a college in Germany, become a CPA, then started to work for KMPG, a global network of professional services firms providing audit, tax and advisory services.

June 14, 2009
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The Brothers' Passion

Hakki and Erdogan Akbulak, brothers born in Ankara, established AKDO/SILKAR after Erdogan was diagnosed with cancer in 1990. He came to the United States for treatment, and it was at this critical time that Hakki realized how important it was to spend as much time with his brother as possible.

January 7, 2009
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How Will Businessmen Survive During the Global Crisis?

On February 7, 2007, the Reuters News Agency sent its subscribers a seven sentence news item. The news item said that the subprime and risky loans of British-based HSBC Holdings had reached 10.5 billion dollars in 2006, and that this was more than 20 percent over what the analysts had been expecting.

January 5, 2009
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Ravini Discovered Shadow

Ravini, which has been operating since 1996 in Turkey’s most important natural stone center of productions, Balıkesir has captured a new trend with the gray marble (Shadow) that it has presented to the American, European and Middle East market.

January 5, 2009
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Berlin: The City that Introduced Doner to the World

Berlin, Germany – Some day when the history of döner is written, Berlin will undoubtedly have a special place and significance. Döner, after its introduction in Turkey, put its name on the map first in Europe’s Berlin. Berlin ranks as the European city with the highest Turkish population—a group that tops 200,000—and its district of Kreuzberg was the first place in Germany that gave Germans a taste of doner.

August 29, 2008
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Trust Your Liquidation & Asset Management Program to AmerTurk

Certain failures, mistakes or commercial errors present other businessmen with opportunities. While every businessman sets out to generate profits, even the best-laid plans flounder at times, however, necessitating the disposal of the business and the stock in hand. Goods once purchased with grand plans in mind need to be sold to minimize losses. This is the point at which the liquidation mechanism comes into play.

June 15, 2008
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The Architect of Williamsburg: MKD Group LLC

New York – Mimar Sinan, the most famous architect in Turkish history, was a genius who served four Ottoman Sultans and created hundreds of buildings (1490-1588.) Mimar Sinan’s intelligence, inventiveness and distinctive architecture place him firmly in a key position in world architecture. Major monuments such as the Sultanahmet Mosque (Blue Mosque) and Taj Mahal were built by Mimar Sinan’s students.

June 15, 2008
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Askew Makes Manufacturing Companies More Efficient

Los Angeles, CA - You could have the greatest product in the world, but if your company doesn’t have an effective supply solution or inventory management systems, you could be losing out. Askew Industrial Corporation (US company) is a company that designs and implements inventory management systems and point-of-use supply solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).

December 15, 2007
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The Apex of Turkish Carpets in New York

Around two years ago, at a carpet trade fair in the North Carolina city of Asheville, considered by many to be the heart of the carpet industry, an old Turkish carpet which was put up for open bidding was sold for exactly 279,000 dollars, despite the fact it had only been expected to go for between 5 and 10 thousand dollars.

December 15, 2007
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Frustration with A Buyer Sparked the Creation of A Factory

New York - Some of the most frequent problems faced by people doing business in trade between the US and Turkey include trouble with the timely delivery of goods, the continued purchase of a product, and not making concessions on quality.

March 15, 2007
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Connect County is Connecting Continents

The September 11 attacks occurred six months after the foundation of Rapid Conn, Inc. in Orange County / Foothill Ranch, California, to specialize in the design, manufacturing and trading of cable and connectors. To overcome the difficulties they foresaw in the future, the management of the company had to make fast decisions, and they announced their decision:

July 15, 2006
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