Ayşe Kuzucuoğlu joined the Vedder Price team in April 2013. If you had asked her 13 years ago, recently arrived from Turkey with limited means, whether her future would include working for a large general practice law firm helping to represent world-renowned clients, she might have said yes.

By Cemil Ozyurt - The Turkish, Armenian, and Assyrian entrepreneurs from Turkey, who have been interested in the fuel industry in the USA since the 1960’s, are still running nearly 300 gas stations in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut today. Creating over 2 billion dollars worth of economic input, the entrepreneurs also provide employment for more than 3000 people. The gas station business is in the hands of Armenians, especially in northern New Jersey, and of Turks in the Long Island region. Long Island, the Crimean Tatars and Uzbek Turks had initially entered the sector widely, and became so strong as to virtually create their own franchise. The first known Turkish gas station owner became active in Long Island at the end of the 1960’s.

TurkofAmerica - The Virtual Private Network (VPN), which has gained attention when the social media sites got banned, is being used by millions of people in the world today. With the work of companies that produce tunnel technologies for certain banned websites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Youtube, access is made possible without the recognition of the IP address. Especially in Tunisia and Egypt during the Arab Spring, millions of people accessed the banned sites Twitter and Facebook by using this tunnel technology. And, actually, companies that enabled the breach of this ban gave a pathway to the Arab Spring. Lately in Turkey, as well, the banned site Youtube is being accessed through this technology. The ban on Twitter was also breached through the same technology. Today, around 600 million people are still facing internet bans. One of the sub-branches of the Mountain View, CA-centered VPN company is AnchorFree. Along with the founders of the company, which is also the owner of the HotSpotShield product, David Gorodyansky and Eugene Malobrodsky, a Turkish women entrepreneur, Bağlan Nurhan Rhymes, is the major shareholder.

RRML Capital Resources, one of the nation’s leading commercial mortgage firms doing business nationwide, is investors’ single source for innovative business consulting, financing, equipment loans and commercial real estate loans. RRML covers virtually any category including Hotels/Hospitality, Office Buildings, Shopping Centers, Healthcare Facilities, Non-Profit Organizations and more. ‘’The Economy is on an upsurge which is an excellent opportunity for prudent Investors to take position in different projects.’’ says Lenford L. Robins, CEO of RRML Capital Resources. Robins talked to TURKOFAMERICA about his company.