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A nation of women

02/02/2012

"Anadolu" (Anatolia) may very well be the "land of mothers," but as Turkey finds its place as a global leader, it needs to become a nation of women. According to the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap report released this week, it has a long way to go. Read more.

Raising girl power on Twitter

01/24/2012

On Tuesday, January 31 at 2PM EST and 9PM IST, we'll host a Twitter chat about empowering young girls with the hashtag #gendergap. Read more.

Social Entrepreneurship on the Rise in Turkey

01/17/2012

Social entrepreneurship is on the rise worldwide, especially Turkey. Ashoka Türkiye's Zeynep Meydanoglu and Matthias Scheffelmeier share insights about what's going on in Anatolia in this blog post.

301,927 has been raised to-date through Van Earthquake Relief Fund

01/10/2012

As long as individuals, corporations and foundations show interest in supporting the longer term recovery and reconstruction process in Van, Turkish Philanthropy Funds will keep the Van Earthquake Relief Fund open for contributions. Read more.

Haldun Tashman

Haldun Tashman, after graduating from Robert Academy and Robert College, came to New York and received his MBA from Columbia University in 1968, majoring in corporate finance as a Fulbright scholar. He began his professional career working on Wall Street for a major public accounting firm. In 1972, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, joined a small plastics company as controller. He added two successful start-up companies to the Tech Group as their founding President/CEO, which also transformed him from employee to partner in 1983. After growing the company 200 times reaching 12 manufacturing locations in 3 continents, Haldun and his partner Steve sold their mostly medical business to West Pharmaceutical Services in 2005 as part of their exit plan and merged their Asian operations with a public company based in Singapore. They have also sold their half-interest in a plastics manufacturing plant in Manisa, Turkey to the local partner. Tashco Industries, Inc, a leading window and door manufacturing company in Phoenix, owned jointly with his older brother, Feridun Tashman since 1979 remains as a family business. Tashmanlar Insaat Ltd. is a recent start-up as another family business building affordable new apartments near Istanbul airport.

Tashman is actively involved in various non-profit organizations which include Arizona State University, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, Arizona Community Foundation, Turkiye Ucuncu Sektor Vakfi, Bolu Izzet Baysal Vakfi, Turkish-American Business Forum in New York City and Turkish Philanthropy Funds also based in New York City.

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