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Izmir's Export King of Natural Stone

Adamer, an Izmir-based natural stone company, is one of Turkey’s biggest exporters to the U.S. market in the natural stone industry. They export approximately 123-130 containers of natural stone products to the U.S. market every month. Vedat Zor, CEO of Adamer, talked about his U.S. strategy and achievements.

August 8, 2010
Published in Businessman

The Oscar of Philanthropy Goes to Koc Family

Rahmi Koc with the Mike Bloomberg, Mayor of New York City, Sanford Weill, ex-chief executive officer of Citigroup and Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel. (Photo: Courtesy of TurkishNY.com)

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, has deemed the Koç Family worthy of the “Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy,” the most prestigious philanthropy award in the world. Turkey's Koc family received the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy in a ceremony in New York.

October 16, 2009
Published in Businessman

Barry Habib: A Guide to Mortgage Markets and a Producer of Broadway Shows

Barry with his wife Toni.

Barry is the youngest of five children of an immigrant family from Ortakoy, İstanbul. When the family decided to move away in 1958, like any immigrant who desired to come to the U.S., they thought that money lay scattered on the streets and all they had to do was just bend down and picked it up.

October 9, 2009
Published in Businessman

A Long Journey from Edirne to the U.S.: The Mitrani Family Adventure

Norman Belmonte is front of the picture of Edirne Synagogue which his parents got married in 1913.

After 1492 many exiles from Spain came to Edirne (Adrianople), a town in Turkey located in eastern Thrace near the Turkish-Greek-Bulgarian frontier, followed by refugees from Portugal, and Italy as well.
These new immigrants, who had different customs from the Romaniots, established their own congregations (kahal, pl. kehalim) according to their place of origin. In 1656 there were 15 different kehalim, most of them named after locations in Spain, Portugal, and Italy.