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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.

Murat Agirnasli

Murat Agirnasli was born in 1955 in Ankara, Turkey. He graduated from TED Ankara Kolej (A junior hight school and high school). He completed his undergraduate studies in Business Administration at the Bosporus University (Bogazici Universitesi) in Istanbul in 1979. That year he was admitted to the MBA program at the University of Richmond. He graduated from University of Richmon in 1981 with an MBA degree.
 
In 1983, he started an export trading company, Apparel Trading International, Inc. (ATI) in New York, where he currently serves as the CEO. ATI is a major off-price wholesaler and liquidator. For twenty five years, ATI has been involved in liquidations of excess inventories and has structured and executed financial partnerships in the garment industry.
 
Mr. Agirnasli is also the president of AGIME Capital LLC (AGIME) a New York Limited Liability Corporation that is involved in structuring start up ventures and investments predominantly in real estate business.
 
Mr. Agirnasli currently serves as the president of Turkish-American Business Forum. He is married and has a son. He speaks English, Turkish and Spanish.

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