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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.

Mehmet Lutfi Kirdar

Mehmet Lutfi Kirdar is a Vice President in the Private Client Services division at JP Morgan Securities, Inc. He has over 10 years of experience in the financial services industry and specializes in identifying individual equity and fixed income investment opportunities in the US and emerging markets for his high net-worth individual and institutional clients.  Prior to joining JP Morgan through its acquisition of Bear Stearns, he worked in the Private Client Services division at Bear Stearns since 2002. He began his financial services career at Global Securities (USA), Inc. as an institutional sales-trader from 1997 through 2000. Mehmet received a BS in International Economics from Georgetown University and an MIA in International Finance and Banking from Columbia University. He supports numerous charitable and civic organizations including the Foreign Policy Association (John Whitehead fellow), Reach Out And Read of Greater New York (Board Member), the Turkish-American Business Forum (Co-President, Board Member) and the Georgetown Scholarship Program (Class co-Chair).  Mehmet is a life-long resident of New York City and currently lives in lower Manhattan along with his wife and two children.