Bloomberg, a political independent, wants the new taxi to be green and sport an "iconic design" identifying it with New York City.
"You've got to look at how much experience companies have in building cars; what do you do if after two years the wheels start falling off?" Bloomberg asked rhetorically on WOR radio.
"This is data-driven; it's a nice thing if it's built in Brooklyn ... but not at the expense of getting the right car," he said. "If it were tied, yeah, sure, these things matter," he concluded. The Bloomberg administration will choose the winner.
The Turkish vehicle also is the only one that has a ramp for wheelchairs, an important consideration in protecting the legal rights of disabled people. But Bloomberg suggested that the city might not need to equip all of its taxi fleet with cars that can handle wheelchairs.
Taxi drivers are pushing for a fare hike because gasoline prices have topped $4 a gallon. Bloomberg said he was sympathetic to that request, but the city must be sure that drivers are not refusing to take fares to the outer boroughs.
Turkish Airlines won the Skytrax award for Europe's Best Airline for a third time and was also given two other awards.
English investors have not paid heed to the coverage in the international media painting a negative portrait of Turkey during the Gezi Park protests and continue to keep the country on its radar for investments. 
Turkey has become the fastest growing nation for luxurious automobile brands. While luxurious brands experienced seven percent growth globally in the first five months of the year, in Turkey the rate of growth has reached the 100 percentile level. 
While the English press continues to cover the Gezi Park protests to Turkey’s detriment, the British Prime Minister has praised Turkey’s ‘stability.’ David Cameron says “we admire your economy.”
With the Central Bank’s deferred interest rate cut resulting in revitalizing domestic demand, Turkey’s economy experienced three percent growth in the first quarter of the year, sealing 14 quarters of continuous growth. 
The Capital Markets Board has initiated an investigation into exits from the stock exchange by speculators, in a move which followed Erdoğan’s acknowledgement of attempts by the interest rate lobby to instigate a drop in the stock exchange. Should the Capitals Market Board establish a connection between financial exists and speculators sanctions may be enforced.
Çalık Holding has released a statement refuting claims made in reports by CNBC attempting to associate the group with redevelopment plans for Taksim’s Gezi Park.
Saudi Arabian businessman Ehsaan Fareed Abduljawad has purchased two towers in the Ağaoğlu Maslak 1453 project for 200 million dollars. “We trust in Turkey’s economy,” said the billionaire. 
The speculative attack on the markets came to a halt following Prime Minister Erdoğan’s statement directed at the interest-rates lobby, “We will not let you consume the great efforts of our nation.” The dollar has since dropped and the stock exchange is back on a rising trend. 
During the past five days there has been a polemic concerning the boycott of the Moroccan Business Confederation (CGEM) of a meeting between Turkish and Moroccan businessmen which took place during Erdoğan’s trip to Morocco on June 3rd. While the decision had nothing to do with the on-going protests in Istanbul and other cities, the real reason is proving to be an internal conflict between the CGEM and the Moroccan government.
The ‘economic’ demands set forth by the Taksim Platform, which spoke on behalf of the Gezi Park protesters in a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Arınç on Wednesday, have resulted in a number of question marks. The main question being, why are they opposed to projects worth 120 billion such as the third bridge and airport, hydroelectric power plants and Canal Istanbul?
Tosyalı Holding opened a 750 million dollar steel-iron factory in Algeria in a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Expected to rake in an annual one billion dollar revenue, the facility will also provide one thousand jobs.
The Occupy Wall Street movement did not pose a significant financial burden in the United States, whereas the financial burden brought on in Turkey from the Gezi Park protests is exponential. 
It will now be required to place health warnings on the glass portions of water pipes, regularly referred to as ‘nargile’ in Turkey.
