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Carbon Disclosure Project, (CDP) was set up nearly 15 years ago to serve investors who wanted to see companies reporting reliable information about their climate change policies.

Koç Holding Automotive Group has been named the best company in Europe of 2015 and its new Fiat Aegea has been named best car by AUTOBEST, one of the world's most prestigious international automotive award ceremonies. 

With less than two months before the end of the year, Turkey's Automotive Industrialists Association (OSD) has revised up its 2015 production and export targets.

Turkish carmaker Tofas posted a net profit of 157.9 million Turkish Liras ($55 million) in the third quarter of 2015 - an increase of  24 percent compared with 127.1 million liras ($44.3 million) in the same period last year, the company said in a statement late Nov. 4.

Turkey?s tractor manufacturer, TÜMOSAN, has said it will focus on defense technologies and rail systems in addition to its main business activities, during a press meeting on Oct. 22. 

The company will start the development of an indigenous tank engine by 2016 and plans to start production by 2020. 

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Representatives of Beko Balkans from Turkey presented the plans for expansion of business in Serbia.

Representatives of Beko Balkans from Turkey presented the plans for expansion of business in Serbia, which envisage that over 100 people should be employed by the company in the next few years.

Tofa?, a joint venture of Turkey?s Koç Holding and Italy?s Fiat Chrysler, has started producing a new Fiat sedan model, Fiat Egea, in the northwestern province of Bursa on Sept. 28 in a ceremony with Koç Holding Chairman Mustafa Koç, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) CEO Sergio Marchionne and Tofa? employees in attendance. 

No doubt, one of the most interesting exhibitions at the 14th Istanbul Biennial organized by the Foundation for Istanbul Culture and Arts (?KSV) sponsored by Koç Holding is the house of Leon Trotsky, who lived on Büyükada, the largest of the Princes? Islands in the Marmara Sea, in 1929. 

Revisiting a country after a few years is a great experience. You notice the subtle changes, which may be indiscernible to locals, right away. Like Mark Twain?s own experience with New York, returning to Amman after an absence of four years, this time for the wedding of a Palestinian-Turkish friend?s sister, I found some, if not much, improvement in it.