LATFF 2013: Feature Films Announced
Scheduled to run 28 February – 3 March 2012 in Los Angeles, Second Los Angeles Turkish Film Festival will screen four prominent feature films. The Festival will open with the screening of Yilmaz Erdogan’s “The Dream of A Butterfly/The Butterfly’s Dream”. The following feature presentations are Emin Alper’s award-winning film “Tepenin Ardi” (Beyond The Hills) and Ali Aydin’s “Kuf” (Mold), which will get its U.S premiere. The Festival will wrap with Zeki Demirkubuz’s “Yeralti” (Inside), which will meet the audience for the first time through its U.S premiere.- Published in Latest
Turkey’s first national research ship, TÜBİTAK Marmara, which is purposed to observe undersea operations of every kind as well as to conduct oil exploration activities, was put to sea Feb. 17. “Turkey has proved that it is also capable of building research ships, along with freight ships. Hopefully, it will be able to export these ships also,” Science, Industry and Technology Minister Nihat Ergün said during the landing event of the ship in Istanbul. “The studies to be done with this ship will boost our country’s opportunities to benefit from the seas and will create a substantial surplus for our country.”
At a time when certificate authorities are under attack by cybercriminals, a group of companies has formed an alliance to try to improve the security of the CA infrastructure. Members of the Certificate Authority Security Council, announced Thursday, include Comodo, Trend Micro, Symantec, GMO GlobalSign, Entrust, DigiCert and Go Daddy. Some of the companies have recently suffered compromises of their CA systems.
Francisco Gonzales of the University of North Texas (UNT) will become the 250th scholarship recipient under TCA's Study Abroad in Turkey Scholarships for American Minority Students. The TCA Study Abroad Scholarship program was established in 2008 to support study abroad opportunities for African American, Hispanic American and Native American students.
