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Partners Discuss UNDP's US$166 Million Resilience-based Development Response
Amman, 8 January 2014 – Development partners from 18 countries and the EU, meeting in Amman today, agreed that the Kuwait II Pledging Conference for Syria, slated for 15 January 2014, should encompass support for critical development efforts to compliment the humanitarian response to the crisis in Syria and its spill-over impacts on neighbouring countries. The meeting, which brought together partners with long-standing experience and knowledge of the region and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Directors from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey, endorsed UNDP’s Resilience-based Development Response in support of people and communities affected by the Syrian crisis in those five countries.Bridges of Hope Project, Inc. Develops 12 School Libraries in Turkey in 2013
The Bridges of Hope Project (BOHP) supported educational development by building 12 elementary school libraries, each containing 300 - 350 books, in selected towns and villages throughout Turkey in 2013. In addition, every student was given a popular science book published by TUBITAK, the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, to inspire young minds in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.NJ Top Docs Latest Issue of the Healthy Living Publication Featuring Dr. Oz
Dr. Mehmet Oz featured on the cover of the NJ Top Docs magazine, "Healthy Living". This high-end issue is complete with glossy pages featuring large photos of the NJ Top Docs approved doctors as well as descriptions of their practices. With the success of the prior issues, the “Top Docs” issue is bound to be the most comprehensive edition to date. While the “Top Doctors” issue was built very similar to the “Top Surgeons” and “Top Dentists” that came before it, this magazine features a very familiar face on its cover. Dr. Mehmet Oz is a highly praised cardiothoracic surgeon, author, and television personality with a large and loyal following. Brynwood Partners to Sell Maker of Turtles Candy
The owner of Godiva chocolates is dipping deeper into the candy business. Yildiz Holding, the Istanbul-based food and beverage company that has several brands including Godiva, has agreed to purchase DeMet’s Candy Company, the maker of Turtles chocolates, from the private equity firm Brynwood Partners for $221 million. Call for Nominations: TASSA Young Scholar Awards
TASSA launches a new award to recognize the achievements of young Turkish American scholars, as part of its 2014 Annual Meeting. The scholars are invited to submit a nomination (including self-nominations) for the inaugural TASSA Young Scholar Awards. The deadline is on January 6, 2014. The nomination package should include the nominee's latest CV along with one article (already published in the literature or a working manuscript) that exemplifies the best work of the nominee. Each winner will receive an Award Certificate at the conference, and is expected to deliver a short oral presentation during the TASSA Annual Meeting, to be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, on March 22-23, 2014.AACAP Announces "
Dr. Ülkü Ülgür, co-founder and first president of the Assembly of Turkish American Associations (ATAA), is being honored by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) with a namesake award to recognize his lifelong work and leadership in children's mental health.
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Turkey Selects Local Shipyard for LPD Contract
ANKARA — Turkey selected a local shipyard to award the country’s first-ever contract for the acquisition of a Landing Platform Dock (LPD), a deal industry sources estimated at about $500 million. Turkey’s procurement agency, the Undersecretariat for Defense Industries (SSM), announced on its web page late Dec. 27 that it picked up Sedef Gemi Insaati A.S., a privately-owned Istanbul shipyard, to open contract negotiations for the LPD program. Dr. Oz Moving to WSB-TV from Fox 5 In Fall 2014, Replacing 'Katie'
Dr. Mehmet Oz will be moving his popular talk show from Fox 5 to WSB-TV in the fall of 2014, replacing Katie Couric's talk show, WSB-TV general manager Tim McVay confirmed. Couric's show, which debuted in the fall of 2012 and airs weekdays on WSB-TV at 3 p.m., will not be back this fall after it failed to break into the top echelon of talk shows. While ratings weren't bad, Deadline.com reported that it was a very pricey show to produce and license. Chobani CEO: Whole Foods Diss Won't Hurt Us
After Whole Foods announced it won't sell Chobani yogurt starting next year, Chobani's CEO told CNBC on Thursday that it will not hurt the business. "We grew about 30 percent this year, and we wanted to grow more and more places, not less places," Chobani's CEO, Hamdi Ulukaya, told CNBC.
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Muhtar Kent: Coca-Cola Is Not Yesterday, Coca-Cola Is Tomorrow
Moinak Mitra, The Economic Times - Running a $48 billion company is not a joke, particularly when the brand in question is Coca-Cola. For five years now, Muhtar Kent, the Turkish-American Chairman & CEO of The Coca-Cola Company, has been doing it with purpose, pragmatism and panache. The 61 year-old New York-born CEO has faith in the "golden triangle" of business, government and civil society — or neo-capitalism, as is evident from this exclusive conversation he recently had with CD. Kent bubbles over his rise from the ranks while pouring a sparkling dose of neocapitalism Edited excerpts: TCF Supports Turkish Language Education in the U.S. Billings Middle School
In 2012, TCF awarded a grant to Billings Middle School in Seattle, WA to support a pilot year of teaching Turkish as a foreign language. The project was spearheaded by Rebecca Timson, Dean of Faculty of the school and an alumnus (2007) of the TCF Teacher Study Tours to Turkey.10 Reasons to Fall In Love with Turkey's Marmara Region
For millennia, Turkey’s Marmara has been a physical and figurative bridge between Eastern and Western cultures, religions, and histories. It was here, at this crossroad of civilization, where Persian King Xerxes built his famed bridge of boats over the Dardanelles for his conquest of Europe. Here, on the treacherous waters of the Bosphorus, Jason led the Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece. Up against the legendry Walls of Troy, an impossible beauty launched a thousand ships and a wooden horse destroyed an ancient people. Major International Court Finds the Ottoman Armenian Controversy Not Settled History
On December 17, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) reversed the criminal conviction by a Swiss court of Dogu Percinek, a Turkish politician who publicly challenged that Armenians were subject to genocide in the final years of the Ottoman Empire nearly 100 years ago. The ECHR is an international court whose decisions are binding in 47 countries, including all of the European Union and every NATO member state except the U.S. and Iceland. Some 800 million people are subject to its jurisdiction. It has rendered judgment in more than 10,000 cases since its founding in 1959. 
