Some 165 local businesses invested $5.3 billion in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2010, making the country the top destination for the Turkish investments abroad. Turkish businessmen have invested the highest amount of money in the Netherlands during the first 10 years of the new millennium, according to a report derived from official data by the Confederation of Businessmen and Industrialists of Turkey (TUSKON).

President Gul, Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and officials will attend Turkey-Netherlands Business Forum in Amsterdam. 100-member Turkish business delegation will travel to the Netherlands to hold talks on new cooperation and investment opportunities between Turkey and the Netherlands on the 400th anniversary of Turkish-Dutch diplomatic relations.

Greek officials met with investors from Turkey to showcase a sale of state-run assets, reflecting a reversal in the fortunes of the Mediterranean rivals as Greece faces possible financial collapse and Turkish growth rivals China’s. Officials of the Greek asset-sales agency, investment office and Foreign Ministry made presentations and held talks with Turkish businessmen in Istanbul today.

BERLIN -- In Germany, Turkish-themed films are beginning to generate major box office coin even as Turkey's own cinematic output is making waves on the international stage and dominating the B.O. at home.

While Turkey is experiencing a skyrocketing ascent as a powerful emerging economy, Germany is looking back at the beginning of Turkish immigration, which helped fuel West Germany's own economic boom.

This year Germany's Turkish community is celebrating its 50th anniversary: In 1961 Germany and Turkey signed an agreement allowing guest workers to immigrate here. It's the subject at the heart of Yasemin Samdereli's "Almanya -- Willkommen in Deutschland," the second-most-successful German film of the year.

The pic, which has earned more than $11 million at the domestic box office, follows an aging patriarch who became Germany's 1,000,001st guest worker in 1964 and who returns to Turkey with his family nearly 50 years later.

The pic won a Silver Lola award for top film this year as well as the screenplay prize for Nesrin Samdereli, the director's sister, at the German Film Awards.