Young Turkish Designer's Dream Is Very Simple: To Make It to the Next Season
When she was a junior in high school, when everyone was sending out college applications, she knew all she wanted to do was design. Teachers always taught them to apply to as many colleges as possible. She only applied to one; it was The Fashion Institute of Technology in Manhattan. It didn't concern her that there was a chance she would not get accepted and she didn't have a back up plan. So, after months of anticipating the acceptance letter, she received the rejection letter. She went to the school to see if she could talk to the dean of fashion design. There was nothing he could do to admit her that semester, but he recommended she would take courses at the school to build her portfolio.
After a couple of courses her drawing had improved dramatically. She put together a new and improved portfolio and submitted it the next semester.
She continued her courses at F.I.T. and anticipated that acceptance letter once again. She wasn't sure if she could take another rejection. If she didn't get accepted this time she might have given up. Her family kept reminding her and asking what if she doesn't get accepted this time? She did not know.
Ebru Ejder is the new director of the Turkish Culture and Tourist Office in New York, replacing Nihan Bekar who has returned to the head office in Ankara. Ejder has worked with the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Turkey since 1998 and previously worked in the Turkish Culture and Tourist Office in New York as a deputy director. In 2011, the office will launch a new advertising and public relations campaign.
Turkish-American television host and actress Defne Joy Foster, 32, was found dead in an apartment Wednesday in Istanbul's Caddebostan neighborhood. Foster reportedly went out with friends Tuesday night and stayed in her friend's apartment on Tanzimat street in Caddebostan, where she was found dead. The report said Foster was suffering from asthma.
Mona Diamond was appointed the Turkish honorary consul general for the state of Georgia in 2005. In the same year, she became the chairman of the American Turkish Friendship Council, a not-for-profit organization for the promotion of close relations between the United States and Turkey. 
