A recusation demand submitted by arrested Iranian-Turkish businessman Reza Zarrab’s lawyers against his case’s judge has been rejected for “lacking merit,” despite the defense’s attempts to validate the demand by quoting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Southern District of New York judge Richard Berman rejected the Aug. 30 demand from the defense for his replacement, saying that it lacked merit, adding that the defense did not appeal for such a demand during the first hearing of the case on April 27, even though it had been announced by the judge himself that he attended a panel in Istanbul in 2014 and made critical statements about the Turkish legal system, an incident which later formed the basis of the defense’s recusation appeal.
Turkey’s leading investment banking services and asset management group, ÜNLÜ & Co, has announced it has set its sights on becoming the leading investment bank in the region. As a step toward this goal, which requires an on-the-ground presence in the finance capitals of the world, UNLU & Co has obtained a license for brokerage activities and opened an office in New York, the bank said in a press release on Sept. 30. The company said it also aimed to step into the Iranian market in a gradual manner. 
RENO, Nev. (News 4 & Fox 11) ? Sparks' Sierra Nevada Corporation joins forces with the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs for the first-ever United Nations space mission. It's an effort to provide developing countries the chance to fly for an extended time in space. SNC's spokesperson Brooke Hart said that this is SNC's founders Eren and Fatih Ozmen giving back. "They want to make sure they can take their success and pay it forward to future generations of innovators," she said.
Former Turkish military officials and a Turkish journalist who were imprisoned by the judicial authorities that are linked to the Pennsylvania-based cult leader imam Fethullah G
