Sadly, we must inform you of the death of Major General (Ret.) Elmer D. Pendleton, founding member of the American Friends of Turkey and the American-Turkish Council and, for many years, ATC’s Senior Military Advisor. General Pendleton died suddenly and peacefully at home this morning, January 19, 2011. He was 83 years old and is survived by his beloved wife, Anne, and three children. At this time, the funeral arrangements for General Pendleton are not available. We will inform you when they are announced. We know that all of the ATC and AFOT “family” will have Elmer and Anne in their thoughts and prayers. Major General Elmer D. Pendleton stated on January 25, 2001 that: “Finally I want to tell you two points about my thoughts of Turkish soldiers because that’s what this is all about: A. As a soldier one of the things that i like about Turkish soldiers is that they are trained to look you right in the eye.. No looking down at their feet, no lack of confidence, but a feeling of pride in ones’s self, one’s army and one’s country.. B. Secondly, a popular American army song describing our army says it all “it wasn’t always easy and it wasn’t always fair but when we were needed we were there.” Life isn’t always easy and it isn’t always fair, but when the Turkish brigade was needed you were there. On behalf of your American friends, thank you.” At: http://usconsulate-istanbul.org.tr/korea/koreagp.html
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American-Turkish Council
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American-Turkish Council
1111 14th Street NW ; Washington DC 20005 (202) 783-0483 | Fax (202) 783-0511 | Email: atc@the-atc.org
Web: www.americanturkishcouncil.org
1111 14th Street NW ; Washington DC 20005 (202) 783-0483 | Fax (202) 783-0511 | Email: atc@the-atc.org
Web: www.americanturkishcouncil.org
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The American-Turkish Council (ATC) was created in 1994 as the U.S.-based counterpart to the Turkish-U.S. Business Council, a “bilateral business council” that aims to foster commercial relations between the United States and Turkey. It grew out of the “consolidation of the Turkish desk of the U.S. Chamber [of Commerce] with the American Friends of Turkey.” …
…According to its 2005 annual report, current ATC board members include Brent Scowcroft, the board chairman and former national security adviser for George H. W. Bush; George Perlman of Lockheed Martin; Elizabeth Avery of Pepsico; Ozer Baysal of Pfizer; Andy Button of Boeing; Richard K. Douglas of General Electric; Sherry Grandjean of Sikorsky; John R. Miller of Raytheon; and Selig A. Taubenblatt of Bechtel. ATC’s advisory board also includes representatives of a number of high-powered defense, pharmaceutical, consulting, and technology firms, including General Atomics, United Defense, Motorola, and the Cohen Group. Daniel Pipes is a former ATC board member. …
…After years of maintaining a surprisingly low profile-given its purportedly influential position inside the beltway-the American-Turkish Council has in recent years been the subject of growing media scrutiny as a result of allegations made by FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds regarding suspect activities of council members. …
…some of the FBI wiretaps Edmonds had access to involved conversations among council members and Turkish officials about bribing elected officials and ” contained what sounded like references to large-scale drug shipments and other crimes.” One official who figured prominently in the conversations was Cong. Dennis Hastert. …
…Some writers argue that ATC is part of a U.S. effort to maintain a tight grip on the so-called New EuroAsia, a region that includes “the ‘Stans,’ Ukraine, Chechnya, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Belarus, Romania, Bulgaria, Czech, Croatia, and Poland.” National security blogger John Stanton, who daringly calls ATC one of the most powerful NGOs in the United States, argues that through groups like ATC, U.S. elites hope to ensure access to oil supplies and to markets for weapons and other products, reign in countries like Russia and Iran, and counter-balance the growing influence of the European Union. Pointing to the impressive corporate and policy elite membership of the ATC and similar associations (like the American-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce), Stanton claims, “Theirs is the voice that matters and is the one that is heard on television and radio networks through the mouths of news-readers, senators, congressmen, presidents, and military leaders. It is in and through such Associations that U.S. political, economic, and military policy is made and the American public subsequently ‘educated’ to support policies that are not, and could not, be debated in public because of their illegality, audacity, complexity, and, arguably, necessity.” …
Funding: ATC is a member-funded organization. Corporate members who gave at least $9,500 (the “Golden Horn Club”) in 2004 include Bechtel, Boeing, BP, ChevronTexaco, Coca-Cola, Frito Lay, General Atomics, General Dynamics, GE, Hyatt, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Northrop Grumman , Pepsi, Pfizer, Raytheon, Textron, United Defense, and United Technologies/Sikorsky. “Bosphorus” members, who pay an annual fee of at least $3,000, include Archer Daniels Midland, BAE Systems, Bank of America, and the Cohen Group. “Marmara” members ($750 annual fee) include Delta Airlines, ExxonMobil, Halliburton, Shell, Turkish Airlines, and Vestel Defense Industries.
ATC also has a long list of non-corporate sponsors in its Marmara Club, including the American Enterprise Institute , the America-Georgia Business Development Council, the American-Uzbekistan Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian-Turkish Business Council, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian Institute, Georgetown University, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs , the Brookings Institution, the Eisenhower Institute, the Nixon Center, the U.S.-Algeria Business Council, the U.S.-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, the U.S.-Greece Business Council, the U.S.-Russia Business Council, and the University of Chicago.
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Board of Directors
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Ambassador Richard L. Armitage (Ret.)
Chairman of the Board
Mustafa Koç
Vice Chairman of the Board
Ambassador James H. Holmes (Ret.)
President & CEO
George H. Perlman
Executive Vice President
Charles “Rick” Johnston
Treasurer
Doreen Edelman, Esq.*
Secretary & General Counsel
Canan Büyükünsal*
Executive Director
Hasan Akçakayalıoğlu
Bank Pozitif A.Ş.
Sam Alkharat
Cisco Systems
Sedat Birol
Eczacıbaşı Holding
Mehmet Büyükekşi
Turkish Exporters Assembly
Haluk Dinçer
Sabancı Holding A.Ş.
Richard K. Douglas
General Electric
Sahir Erozan
Overseas Partners, Inc.
Dalia Garih
Alarko Group of Companies
Dr. Jon Glassman
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Tulu Gümüştekin
C.P.S. Corporate & Public Strategy Advisory
Taner Günay
Sasim
Mitchell Hadad
Sikorsky Aircraft
Jason J. Hinton
Concepts & Strategies, Inc.
Janet Howard
The Coca-Cola Company
Cengiz İsrafil
FIL Finance
Feyhan Yaşar
Yaşar Holding Company
Bülent Kılınçarslan
Kuanta Company A.Ş.
Burak Kuntay
Bahçesehir University
Carolyn B. Lamm
White & Case
Joseph T. McAndrew
The Boeing Company
John R. Miller
Raytheon
Paul Moen
AMGEN
Süreyya Yücel Özden
GAMA
MG Elmer D. Pendleton
( USA , Ret.)
ATC Senior Military Advisor
Scott Rettig
AgustaWestland-North America
Diana Sedney
Chevron
Aziz Sipahi
AYESAS
Serhan Süzer
Süzer Holding
Turhan Talu
Philip Morris Sabancı
S. Coşkun Ulusoy
Oyak
Zeynep Ulusoy
Nobel Pharmaceuticals
Ronald L. Whitehead
Whitehead Group
Robert Winter
Arnold & Porter
Faruk Yarman
Havelsan A.Ş.
Oliver Zandona
ExxonMobil Corporation
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Executive Committee
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LTG Brent Scowcroft (USAF, Ret.)
Chairman of the Board
Mustafa Koç
Vice Chairman of the Board
Ambassador James H. Holmes
(Ret.)
President & CEO
George H. Perlman
Executive Vice President
Hüseyin Ünver
Vice President,
Trade & Business Development
Charles “Rick” Johnston
Treasurer, Banking & Finance Chair
Doreen Edelman, Esq.*
Secretary & General Counsel
Canan Büyükünsal*
Executive Director
Engin Artemel*
Construction Chair
Artemel International
Sedat Birol
Pharmaceutical Co-Chair
Eczacıbaşı Holding
Ned Cabot
Budget & Financial Dev. Chair
Cisco Systems
Leonard Condon
Agribusiness & Food Industries
Co-Chair
Phillip Morris Sabancı
Stephen Delp
Defense & Security Affairs Co-Chair
BAE Systems Land & Armaments
Richard K. Douglas
General Electric
Sahir Erozan
Special Projects Chair
Overseas Partners, Inc.
Tulu Gümüştekin*
C.P.S. Corporate & Public Strategy
Advisory
Mitchell Haddad*
Sikorsky Aircraft
Charles D. Hartman
Electric Power Chair
Alarko Holding
COL Preston Hughes
(USA, Ret.)
Defense & Security Affairs Co-Chair
Carolyn B. Lamm
Nominations Chair
White & Case
Ambassador Alan W. Lukens (Ret.)
Culture & Tourism Chair
GAMA
John R. Miller
Raytheon
MG Elmer D. Pendleton
(USA, Ret.)
Senior Military Advisor
Greg Jç Mallon
Defense & Security Affairs Co-Chair
The Boeing Company
David Talbot*
Eli Lilly
Ronald L. Whitehead
Agribusiness & Food Industries
Co-Chair
Whitehead Group
Robert H. Winter
Audit Chair
Arnold & Porter
Faruk Yarman
Defense & Security Affairs Co-Chair
Havelsan
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Advisory Board
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Engin Artemel
Advisory Board Chair
Artemel International
Ambassador James H. Holmes (Ret.)
President & CEO
ATC
Ümit Akdur
TUPRAG Metal Madencilik A.Ş.
Prof. Dr. H. Erdoğan Alkın
Saffet Avdan
Yüksel Holding
Doğan Ayan
MNG Holding
Egemen Bağış
Turkish Grand National Assembly
Ümran Beba
Frito Lay & Pepsi
Doug Bereuter
The Asia Foundation
Samuel R. “Sandy” Berger
National Security Advisor (Ret.)
VADM Işık Biren (Ret.)
Alarko Holding
Frank Carlucci
The Carlyle Group
Nuri M. Çolakoğlu
New Media Company
Bülent F. Eczacıbaşı
Eczacıbaşı Holding A.Ş.
Nur Emirgil
Ramerica International, Inc.
Cengiz Ersun
İstanbul Chamber of Commerce
COL Preston Hughes (Ret.)
Sami Konukoğlu
Sanko Holding
Duncan MacDonald
Enka Power
Serdar Nisli
AKSA Group
Ambassador Mark R. Parris (Ret.)
Chairman Emeritus
General Joseph Ralston (Ret.)
The Cohen Group
Alexander B. Razinski
Invar International Inc.
Ferit F. Şahenk
Doğuş Holding
Ethem Sancak
Sancak A.Ş.
Robert Smith
Eli Lilly
William H. Taft, IV
Fried, Frank LLC
Sy Taubenblatt
Prof. Dr. İlter Turan
Bilgi University
M. Christine Vick
The Cohen Group
Dennis Wagner
BAE Systems Land & Armaments
Robert Wexler
U.S. House of Representatives
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ATC Staff
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Amb. James H. Holmes (Ret.)
President & CEO
President & CEO
Canan Büyükünsal
Executive Director
Ayşe Sümer
Director, Commercial Programs and Government Affairs
Executive Director
Ayşe Sümer
Director, Commercial Programs and Government Affairs
Cenk Sidar
Director, Defense, Energy & Construction Programs & Membership Services
Director, Defense, Energy & Construction Programs & Membership Services
Erkan Poyraz
Director, Finance
Faith Scott
Office Manager
Director, Finance
Faith Scott
Office Manager
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