EU market share of Turkish companies in consumer electronics has increased significantly following the Customs Union agreement signed between the EU and Turkey: in color TVs from 5 % in 1995 to more than 50 % in 2005, in digital devices from 3 % to 15 %, and in white goods from 3 % to 18 %.

Turkish automotive companies like TEMSA, Otokar and BMC ( Turkey ) | BMC are among the world's largest van, bus and truck manufacturers.

In 2009 a total of 33 Turkish construction / contracting companies were selected for the Top International Contractors List prepared by the Engineering News-Record, which made the Turkish construction / contracting industry the world's 2nd largest, ranking behind those of China.

In 2010, 12 Turkish companies were listed in the Forbes Global 2000 list-an annual ranking of the top 2000 public companies in the world by Forbes magazine.

Since 2005 Turkish companies listed in Istanbul Stock Exchange are required to prepare IFRS reports.

In 1912 Gulbenkian was the driving force behind the creation of the Turkish Petroleum Company ( TPC )— a consortium of the largest European oil companies aimed at cooperatively procuring oil exploration and development rights in the Ottoman Empire territory of Iraq, while excluding other interests.

Heated and prolonged negotiations ensued regarding which companies could invest in the Turkish Petroleum Company.

Air Algerie has no intention on hastening the privatization of the company, but there are already three companies that want to acquire the company, which are Air France, Lufthansa and Turkish Airlines.

* List of Turkish companies

One of the operating mines and the company's processing plant fell north of the cease-fire line in Turkish-occupied Cyprus following the Turkish invasion in 1974, whilst the rest of the companies mines were the other side of the Green Line.

The theatre hosts the annual Aspendos International Opera and Ballet Festival organized by Turkish State Opera and Ballet since 1994, with international participation of opera and ballet companies and an audience of about 10, 000.

Then, he was chairman of some private Turkish companies until 1979.

Negotiations are ongoing with the Turkish, Israeli, Azerbaijani and Ukrainian Chess Federations for staging ACP events as also with three top-100 companies for securing continuous funding to the ACP for expanding its activities.

After construction of the main terminal was finished by M & J Foundation, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization decided to turn the management of operations along with the construction of the second terminal to the TAV ( Tepe-Akfen-Vie ) consortium of two Turkish ( Tepe and Akfen ) and an Austrian ( Vie ) companies.

Class ( B ) shares are allocated to national banks ; Class ( C ) shares are allocated to banks other than the national banks and to privileged companies ; and Class ( D ) shares are allocated to Turkish commercial institutions and to legal and real persons of Turkish nationality.

However some Turkish companies still work in Iraq

Oil companies apparently may have been using the Monk Seal Sanctuary project as a stalking horse to encourage greater cooperation between the Greek and Turkish governments as a preliminary to pushing for oil extraction rights in a geopolitically unstable area.

An international consortium of three Japanese companies ( including IHI Corporation and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries ), one Italian and one Turkish company ( STFA ) carried out the construction works.

The Macedonian National Theatre ( Drama, Opera and Ballet companies ), the Drama Theatre, the Theatre of the Nationalities ( Albanian and Turkish Drama companies ) and the other theatre companies comprise about 870 professional actors, singers, ballet dancers, directors, playwrights, set and costume designers, etc.

This episode was taken up by the modern Turkish writer Nedim Gürsel and made into the setting of his 2001 novel Le voyage de Candide à Istanbul.

Similarly, frets on earlier balalaikas were made of animal gut and tied to the neck so that they could be moved around by the player at will ( as is the case with the modern saz, which allows for the microtonal playing distinctive to Turkish and Central Asian music ).

In acknowledgment of the Turkish Cypriot community's support for reunification, however, the EU made it clear that trade concessions would be reached to stimulate economic growth in the north, and remains committed to reunification under acceptable terms.

In addition to Greek Foreign Ministry meetings with Turkish officials, Greece ’ s Supreme Court prosecutor Yiannis Tentes launched an emergency inquiry on 27 December, ordering the investigations into the mid-1990s wildfires blamed on arson to be reopened with regard to the initial claims reportedly made by Yılmaz.

However, on Thursday 29, Turkish daily Milliyet published an article referring to a secret report that seemed to support claims made in the interview by Mesut Yilmaz that secret agents had caused forest fires in Greece in the 1990s.

Although Muslim teaching at this time strongly opposed the printing of Islamic or Arabic texts, non-Muslim printing was not, in principle, forbidden ; indeed attempts were made in the 1570s by anti-Trinitarian Christians to establish a printing press in the Turkish capital to publish radical Protestant works.

Some dishes may be pre-Ottoman, only taking Turkish names later ; Ash and Dalby, for example, speculate that grape-leaf dolmathes were made by the early Byzantine period.

* Loukoumi is a confection made from starch and sugar, essentially similar to the Turkish delight.

Another effort was made using a Turkish Gulet for a seaborne landing, but it never left port.

In 1573, for instance, a Venetian visitor to the Ottoman Empire observed that many of the Turkish natives of Constantinople regularly drink a " certain black water made with opium " that makes them feel good, but to which they become so addicted that if they try to go without they will " quickly die.

An advisor to Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of the ruling moderate Islamist AK Parti, Ali Yüksel, is reportedly polygamous and has made public his intention to take a fourth wife which caused outrage from the Turkish media and also from the AK Parti.

These included: Rheinterrasse, Löwenbräu ( Bavarian beer restaurant ), Grinzing ( Viennese café and wine bar ), Bodega ( Spanish winery ), Csarda ( Hungarian ), Wild West Bar ( aka the Arizona Bar ) ( American ), Osteria ( Italian ), Kombüse ( Bremen drinking den-literally " galley "), Rübchen ( Teltow, named after the well-known turnip dish Teltower Rübchen, made with turnips grown locally in the small town of Teltow just outside Berlin ), plus a Turkish cafe and Japanese tearoom ; additionally there was a large ballroom.

In the aftermath, Turkish Cypriots declared a separate political entity in the form of the Turkish Federative State of Cyprus in 1975 and by 1983 made a unilateral declaration of independence as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was recognised only by Turkey.

One of the most common Turkish drinks, ayran, is made from yoghurt.

Much of Christian life was contemptuously left alone and a race of Greeks was attracted to Constantinople which has all along made up, in some degree, the deficiencies of Turkish Islam in the element of mind!

Tavuk göğsü, a Turkish dish still in use today, is made with shredded chicken, as was the medieval European dish.

When Ingres, the director of the French Académie de peinture, painted a highly colored vision of a Turkish bath ( illustration, right ), he made his eroticized Orient publicly acceptable by his diffuse generalizing of the female forms ( who might all have been the same model.

Many Bosnians also made a lasting impression on Ottoman culture, emerging as mystics, scholars, and celebrated poets in the Turkish, Arabic, and Persian languages.

With all their possessions gone, the party borrowed Turkish clothing.

Category: Turkish clothing

The period of heightened tensions between Dutch and Muslim communities was also evidenced by several confrontations between what are known as the " Lonsdale Youth " ( Dutch youth groups characterised by their preference for Lonsdale clothing, which is often popular with Neo-Nazi groups ) and Turkish and Moroccan youths in provincial towns like Venray.

In early 2012, Turkish clothing company Mavi Jeans, has made a contract with Adriana to be the face and spokesmodel for the brand.

After the conquest of Anatolia by Seljuk Turks, they introduced the traditional freestyle wrestling called karakucak ( literally " black hug ") and the special leather clothing and initiated using olive oil to make it harder to grip one's opponent, from the ancient Western Asian wrestling ; and created what is today known as Yağlı Güreş or Turkish oil wrestling.

The man at the right with a helmet and coat represents a Turkish soldier ; on the left with a book in his hand is a Turkish youth and intellectual ; behind both of these, in village clothing, is a Turkish peasant.

There are large minority groups of Kazakhs and Turkmens, who generally work in the textile, clothing industry contributing to the Turkish economy.

The high belfry on the church ( Cathedral ) now screens by its shadow the Turkish mosques ; many shops are now provided with new doors and glass windows, oriental clothing is more rare and houses with several storeys, in European manner, are being built everywhere '.

The accompanying images of the animation are ostensibly Middle Eastern men in hats ; one of those hats floating among a party of people, who appear to be dressed in traditional Turkish or Middle Eastern clothing ; and visualizations of the Swedish lyrics such as " cool guy holding a soda " and " borrow the LP ' Hatten är din ' ".