Turkish Energy & Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz has said that direct investments in energy sector exceeded 3.5 billion USD in 2011 in Turkey. The share of private sector was over 60 percent in energy production in 2011, added Yildiz who held a press conference in Ankara on Thursday.
Turkey attracted a new investment valued at $510 million by India’s Aditya Birla Group, a $35 billion multinational company, to establish a viscose staple fibre (VSF) plant in the southern province of Adana, company officials told a press conference Thursday in İstanbul while they said the group mulled over new investments in the country.
In a resolution hailed by Armenian-American groups but criticized by Ankara, the U.S. House of Representatives urged Turkey late on Tuesday to respect religious freedom and return Armenian and other Christian worship sites to their “rightful owners.” The resolution drafted by two California lawmakers, Republican Ed Royce and Democrat Howard Berman, is virtually identical with legislation approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. It said the Turkish authorities should “end all forms of religious discrimination” of the country’s Christian minorities.
Gov. Chris Christie was on hand during the official opening of a new 226,000-square-foot sales and distribution center for Coca-Cola on Deans Rhode Hall Road on Tuesday. "This is an extraordinary facility; it is state of the art," Gov. Christie said. "They (Coca-Cola) could have chosen to build it anywhere, but they chose here." 
