NEW YORK- “We aim to bring long-term, stable resources to Turkey”, said Turkish Finance Minister Simsek. Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek said they aim to bring long-term, stable resources to Turkey. Simsek attended a meeting which hosted about 400 investors and fund managers, organized by Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York. Later on he spoke at a press meeting in the Turkish House and said, he has been holding talks in groups with 400 fund managers in the past four days in London and New York and said, “These funds manage about $10 trillion sources in developing countries like Turkey.”

The failure of Fort Lee Federal Savings Bank, New Jersey's first bank failure of 2012, will cost the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. about $14 million. Of the five banks to fail statewide since the start of the financial crisis in 2008, that sum is the smallest yet. 2011's failure of First State Bank in Cranford at $45.8 million was the most expensive for the FDIC, among the New Jersey insolvencies. And smaller, of course, is better for managers of the fund that backs customers' deposits up to $250,000. The organizers of Fort Lee Federal Saving Banks were Haralambos S. Kostakopoulos, Yasemin K. Kostakopoulos, Douglas J. Cestone, Paul Oesterle and Anthony J. Sansiveri. The organizers submitted the bank application on June 16, 2000. Kostakopoulos couple was known their support to Turkish American community.

Washington, D.C. – Idaho Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch and Congressman Mike Simpson are asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to recognize Greek yogurt under their MyPlate nutrition guidelines. In a letter to Secretary Vilsack, they point out that Greek yogurt has twice the protein and more calcium than regular yogurt, and is low in fat.