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Turkish, US Chiefs of Staff Meet in Washington

Turkey and America's top military commanders met on Wednesday in what a spokesman from the US Joint Chiefs of Staff has called a sign of the two nations' deeply rooted strategic ties. Speaking to the Anatolia news agency on Wednesday, Pentagon spokesperson Cdr. Scott McIlnay said Chief of General Staff Necdet Özel met with Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on Wednesday and plans to see US Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta on Thursday. The talks are expected to cover the two nations' overlapping strategic interests, which include the Syria crisis and Iran's nuclear ambitions.

May 11, 2012
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Muhtar Kent's New Coke

Kent, photographed in his office at Coke's Atlanta headquarters on April 20. Photo: Ben Baker, Fortune
By Patricia Sellers - FORTUNE - Muhtar Kent, the son of a Turkish diplomat, grew up in Thailand, India, and Iran, and he runs a company that operates in more than 200 countries. So it is rare for him to visit a place he's never been before. Yet as we travel by van out of Shenyang, a bustling metropolis of 7 million people, the Coca-Cola CEO quickly finds himself in uncharted territory: an increasingly desolate expanse of land in China's northeast, the nation's former rust belt. Then, eight kilometers from our destination, we are greeted by a ribbon of red banners -- 1,520 of them -- leading the way to a new bottling plant, Coke's 42nd in China and its largest to date. Hundreds of workers, all in bright red hats, cheer his arrival. "China will be Coke's largest market," Kent says. "I can't give you a time. But it will happen."

May 11, 2012
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Saudi Businessman to Invest $2 Billion in Turkey

According to a released statement on Thursday, Saudi businessman al-Mugherah applied for a land allocation to the Governorship of Bursa. Al-Mugherah requested one million square meters land to build an enormous complex and thermal resorts and 100,000 square meters to construct an automotive spare parts factory.

May 11, 2012
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Fairfax County Board of Supervisors chairman heads to Turkey for Cultural Exchange

Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon S. Bulova (D) packed her bags late Friday for a 10-day trip to Turkey to explore possible economic exchanges and to strengthen cultural ties with Northern Virginia’s small population of Turkish immigrants.