New York, NY - TurkTechNet (TTN), a New York based non-profit organization dedicated to elevate Turkish entrepreneurs, technology startups and investors to the level of global competition, announced their inaugural all-expenses paid New York roadtrip for promising Turkish technology startups. The New York roadtrip includes flights and accommodations in New York for one week, 4 days of bootcamp fundraising training and a demo day with US investors. In response to the pressing needs of Turkish startups to gain access to global capital resources and know-how, TTN was launched by leading Turkish government officials, businesses, entrepreneurs, academicians and investors based in New York.

A delegation from the American-Turkish PEG company arrived in the Yemeni capital of Sana'a Monday to hold talks with competent government bodies regarding establishing more power generation projects in the country. The visit is a response to an invitation extended by the Ministry of Electricity, which plans to sign agreements with the PEG company on building more power projects, especially in the capital, Sana'a, which was badly affected by repeated attacks on its supply lines, leaving thousands of its household deprived of such vital and basic service.

Comodo (comodo.com), a leading certificate authority and Internet security solutions provider, announced the release of Comodo Antispam Gateway (CASG) 1.2, an advanced email filtering solution that frees employee inboxes of junk mail glut. Ideally suited for small to mid-size businesses that host their own email servers, CASG is a cloud-based software-as-a-service (SaaS) that can be configured and managed from any Internet-connected web browser. CASG quarantines messages that were determined to be spam or scanned positive for virus attachments, stopping annoying and malicious threats from reaching a user's email.

Turkey is planning to purchase 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters worth $16 billion in an attempt to meet its future air force needs, DefenSe Minister ismet YIlmaz was quoted as saying today. "Turkey plans to buy 100 F-35 Joint Strike Fighters, two of which will be delivered in 2015," Yilmaz told the daily Milliyet.