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The American Turkish Society Celebrates Turkcell's Ten Years on the NYSE

New York, NY– The American Turkish Society will award its annual Corporate Partnership Award to Duncan L. Niederauer, CEO of NYSE Euronext, and Süreyya Ciliv, CEO of Turkcell, at its 2011 Gala Dinner on October 20th at The Plaza in New York. The Gala will celebrate Turkcell’s ten years on the New York Stock Exchange.

Mustafa V. Koç, Chairman of Koç Holding and Joseph R. Perella, Chairman and CEO of Perella Weinberg Partners support the event as Dinner Committee Co-chairs and will present the honorees their awards at the event. Mica Ertegün serves as Honorary Chairwoman in support of the organization where her late husband, Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegün served as Chairman for many years. The other supporters of the event include top companies from both Turkey and the United States.

October 7, 2011
Published in How to Invest in the U.S.

Comodo Unveils New SSL Control Panel Modules and Enhancements for Ease of Use

Comodo (www.comodo.com), a leading certificate authority and Internet security organization, today announced it will be exhibiting at the seventh annual HostingCon, the world's largest conference and trade show serving the hosted services industry at the San Diego Convention Center from August 8-10, 2011. Comodo will be located at booth #139 on the show floor.

"This year at HostingCon, our international team will be meeting one-on-one with hosted service providers and e-business partners to demonstrate the latest advancements in our security arsenal," said Melih Abdulhayoglu, Comodo CEO and chief security architect. "Our security experts will be on hand to introduce, demonstrate and discuss our newest products and security solutions."

July 13, 2011
Published in How to Invest in the U.S.

Turkish Textile Executives to Visit US Cotton Belt

Eleven textile industry leaders from Turkey will tour the U.S. Cotton Belt on May 7-17 as part of a COTTON USA Special Trade Mission. The event, sponsored by the National Cotton Council’s (NCC) export promotions arm, Cotton Council International (CCI), is designed to build trading ties between the U.S. cotton industry and textile industry leaders from key Turkish mills.

“These textile executives will view the advanced state of the U.S. industry and have the opportunity to meet with U.S. cotton exporters and other industry leaders,” said CCI President John D. Mitchell, a Cordova, TN, merchant. “This is an important opportunity for U.S. cotton because the individual mills on the tour consume a total of more than 570,000 bales, with U.S. imports of about 345,000 bales.

May 2, 2011
Published in How to Invest in the U.S.

Turkish Taxi Of Tomorrow Would Be Built in Brooklyn

The Taxi Of Tomorrow might be built in Brooklyn! Karsan, the Turkish manufacturer in the running to build New York's next generation of taxicabs, is now upping the ante (and changed its tune) by pledging to manufacture the wheelchair-accessible vehicles in the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal. The new pledge makes the Karsan cab the only one of the three finalists which would be built in America (it had previously said it would build them in Turkey).

"We have three strong final contenders, and we are evaluating them as we speak," is all TLC spokesman Allan Fromberg will say on the topic. But we're guessing the promise of up to 800 new manufacturing jobs in the city is something that will certainly help the company get more support from local politicians (incidentally, Karsan sent a letter of its intentions to Brooklyn Beep Marty Markowitz). Ford, the only American auto-maker in the running, would make its taxis in Turkey.