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Turkish Lawyers File FETO Indictment Against US Figures

Image A group of Turkish lawyers on Friday filed legal papers accusing 17 U.S.-based individuals -- including top officials, politicians and academics -- of supporting the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO). Lawyers submitted files to Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor against a number of people -- some American nationals as well as Turkish nationals in the U.S. -- for alleged links to FETO. According to Turkey’s government, FETO and its U.S.-based leader Fetullah Gulen orchestrated the defeated coup of July 15, 2016, which left 249 people martyred and nearly 2,200 injured.
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Murat Agirnasli Files $149M Offering Plan for 570 Broome Street Condos

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Rendering for 570 Broome (Credit: builtd and 6sqft)
Turkish-American developer Murat Agirnasli and partners filed an offering plan for a 54-unit condominium at 570 Broome Street, New York State Attorney General’s office records show. The target sellout for the apartments is $149.2 million, for an average of $2.76 million per condo. Agirnasli filed preliminary construction plans in 2014, planning a mere 185-foot-tall, 30-unit building. The developer will now build a 287-foot structure, however, after buying $3.5 million in air rights.
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Chobani's Billionaire Founder On Creating Jobs in America

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Chobani founder Hamdi Ulukaya CBS News
Hamdi Ulukaya built the best-selling yogurt brand in the U.S. after coming here 23 years ago. Today, 70% of Chobani employees are American born, 30% are immigrants and refugees. The following is a script from “Chief of Chobani,” which aired on April 9, 2017. Steve Kroft is the correspondent. Michael Rey and Oriana Zill Granados, producers. At a time when Americans are debating whether immigration and refugees are a good thing or a bad thing for the country, it is sometimes noted that Tesla, Google, eBay, and Pepsi Cola are all either founded by or currently run by immigrants, and, in one case, a refugee. It’s a reminder that foreigners don’t always take jobs from Americans, sometimes they create them. And of all the success stories none seems more relevant to the current debate than the tale of Hamdi Ulukaya, who came here from Turkey 23 years ago on a student visa with almost no money. Today, he is a billionaire who has changed American tastes with his Chobani yogurt, resurrected the economy in two communities, and drawn praise and some hostile fire for the way he’s done it.
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Arab Americans Honor Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya

Image On Thursday, April 27, 2017, the Arab American community will honor Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya for his commitment to service and empowering others. The Award for Individual Achievement will be presented during the 19th annual Kahlil Gibran Spirit of Humanity Awards in Washington, DC. An immigrant, Ulukaya established his Greek yogurt company “Chobani” in 2005. In less than a decade, he grew the company’s worth to more than $1 billion. After witnessing the worsening refugee crisis around the globe, he established the Tent Foundation—his personal philanthropy that seeks to improve the lives and livelihoods of the world’s 65 million refugees and displaced people and help them realize their full potential.
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