At Mr. Burak's parents' home in Manhattan, festivities tend to go beyond the sedate Seder script.
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Mr. Burak is part of a flock that is dreaming up unorthodox themes to jazz up the proceedings.
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Four years ago, columnist Burak Bekdil wrote a satirical essay, published in the English-language Turkish Daily News, slamming Turkey's judicial system.
Still, as Burak Buyukdemir says Turkish entrepreneurship, while not at the beginning, is no where near the end of the road.
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Burak Yilmaz then grabbed his eighth goal of the competition to put Galatasaray ahead and put himself top of the Champions League goalscoring charts.
Kristof was impressed, Burak says, and became fascinated with the notion of real world issues being addressed and tackled through a medium that seemed so promising.
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This year, "I am upping the ante, " says Mr. Burak.
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The hosts appeared to have made the perfect start when Burak Yilmaz slammed home a fine individual goal after 12 minutes, with the striker now having scored seven of Galatasaray's 8 Champions League goals this term.
The Reds were almost caught unawares when Burak Yilmaz stole in to win a corner to the near post but he could not get the direction to his header as the ball went harmlessly across the area.
Leverkusen made the extra man count and looked to have snatched all three points when a Barnetta cross knocked on by Kiessling and Burak Kaplan's deflected effort looped over Drobny and into the net in the 90th minute.
Asi Burak, co-president of Games for Change says that while online games have worked with non-profits to fund raise for various causes in the past, the Half the Sky game is the first one to create content that directly aligns with the donation.
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