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Businessmen Get Together at the Mediterranean Executive Dinner

Los Angeles – About a year ago, a group of Turkish businessmen who live and work in or around Los Angeles decided to make a habit of getting together regularly.

June 15, 2008
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Living Azerbaijan in America

History books refer to Azerbaijan as the first Turkish and Muslim republic ever founded. First Azerbaijan Republic, founded in May 1918, five years before the Republic of Turkey, was short-lived. It lasted for 18 months only.

March 15, 2004
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The Turkish Staff of World Bank and IMF Joined Forces

Demet Cabbar – Washington, D.C. -
It was a cold winter afternoon in Washington, DC. Thousands of World Bank and IMF Staff members had gathered at the Atrium of the World Bank headquarters to see performances from around the world and to celebrate the cultural diversity of the staffs in these organizations.

March 15, 2007
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The Knight of TABA-AmCham

Ugur Terzioğlu was awarded the “Cavaliere Della Rebubblica Italiana” medal in 2005. In addition to Italy, the French government also awarded him the “Chevalier De L’ordre” decoration. Uğur Terzioğlu also is the only person to have served as TABA-AmCham President for two terms.

June 15, 2007
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American-Turks Organize on Political Arena

Two new organizations started operations this year to help promote Turkish American interests in the US—one in fostering Turkish American issues through public education and the other through engagement in the US political arena.

March 15, 2007
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Graduates Whose Hearts Still Lie on the Banks of the Bosphorus

A restaurant on New York's Madison Avenue.....There are around 40 people between the ages of 25 and 70 near the entrance to the restaurant, in the bar area, talking and reminiscing. What has brought them together is that they are all graduates of Robert College (RC).

March 15, 2007
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Financiers Desperately Seeking Synergy

The Institute for International Education recently announced that there were 11,600 Turkish students studying at American universities in the 2005-2006 school year. Although this was a decrease from the 12,500 students of the previous year, Turkey still ranks as eighth in the world in the amount of students it sends to study in the US.

December 15, 2007
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Sending Hope to Anatolia

One day a lawyer, a company manager, and a businessman sat down together and contemplated how to tackle the lack of books for students in public schools throughout Turkey. In their spare time they formed the Bridges of Hope Project Foundation in November 2005 and in the past two years have provided 11,000 public boarding school students with 16,000 books.

December 15, 2007
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American Capital in Motion

In January, 2004, companies with US capital in Turkey formed an association to foster better cooperation. Since then, the American Business Forum in Turkey (Amerikan Şirketler Derneği), with the support of the American Commercial Attaché, has reached 57 members. Considering that the number of American companies operating in Turkey is 220, this is a remarkable achievement for its first year.

July 15, 2005
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