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HIH Bayezid Osman, Head of the Ottoman Family Passed Away in New York

Bayezid Osman (at left) with his brother Cem.

His Imperial Highness Prince Bayezid Osman died on Friday in New York. He was 93. Mr. Osman was a descendant of Osman I, the Anatolian ruler who in 1299 established the kingdom that eventually controlled parts of Europe, Africa and the Middle East. He was born in Paris in 1924 and then moved to United States in 1944 with his mother, Princess Sadiye Hadice and his brother Prince Cem. The Late Prince's funeral service will be held at 12.00pm on January 9th, 2017 at Amerikan Turkish Eyup Sultan Center in Brooklyn. He will be buried at muslim section of Washington Memorial Park Cemetery in Mt. Sinai, NY

January 6, 2017
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January 5, 2017
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Gul Turkmenoglu Has Been Appointed General Manager at The Benjamin

Gul Turkmenoglu has joined New York-based Denihan Hospitality as general manager of The Benjamin (www.thebenjamin.com) in midtown Manhattan. She will oversee operations, finance and sales and marketing for the 209-room luxury midtown Manhattan hotel, reporting directly to Edward Maynard, Denihan’s EVP, Operations.

January 3, 2017
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American Injured in Turkey Nightclub Calls Attack 'a Massive Tragedy'

The American who was injured in the shooting rampage at an Istanbul nightclub told Turkish reporters today that he was part of a group of about nine people at the a New Year's Eve celebration at the club and that seven of them had been shot. Jacob Raak, who spoke to reporters while on a gurney at an airport in Istanbul, also seemed to allude to the fact that Americans don't live with a daily concern about terror attacks in the same way as people in Turkey.