Turkish Airlines, recently voted Europe’s Best Airline at the 2013 Skytrax Passengers Choice Awards for the third consecutive year, is celebrating the third anniversary of its Washington, D.C. gateway this week on November 6.
 

U.S. Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Şimşek attended as guests of honor
Turkcell CEO Süreyya Ciliv, business and diplomatic leaders convened in support of U.S.-Turkey friendship New York, NY– November 8, 2013 – The American Turkish Society commemorated the financial and commercial ties between United States and Turkey at a festive gala celebration on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on November 7th.

Turkey hired Barclays Plc (BARC), Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) and Deutsche Bank AG to arrange the sale of the first sovereign euro-denominated bond in more than three years. The planned securities will mature in 2021, the Ankara-based Treasury said in a statement. The benchmark-size bonds will be priced in the area of 4.625 percent, said one person familiar with the plans, who asked not to be identified because the details are private. The country last sold euro-denominated debt in April 2010, when it raised 2 billion euros ($2.7 billion) in 10-year securities.

Government relations and law firm Herrick is opening new offices in Washington, D.C., and Istanbul. The Washington, D.C., office will include former members of Congress, Reps. Michael McMahon and Elizabeth Holtzman. Herrick has a long history of representing the Turkish government and many Turkish companies, the firm noted about their expansion into Istanbul. That office will be headed up by Barbaros M. Karaahmet, a Turkish-American attorney. The two new offices "represent a major expansion of our national and international capabilities, and a strengthening of our commitment to serve our clients' legal and government relations needs in these two dynamic markets," the firm said in a statement announcing the expansion.