Anatolian Tigers European Stability Initiative that was focused on Kayseri uses the term "Islamic Calvinists" to define the entrepreneurs and their values. Several business awards or conferences in Turkey draw reference from the term "Anatolian Tigers" or its variants. The term was copied after the "Asian Tigers". According to the 2005 Istanbul Chamber of Industry's annual ranking of Turkey's top 1000 industrial enterprises, the adjacent table contains cities which best fit the definition of Anatolian Tigers. Among these cities Trabzon has one company in top 25. Anatolian Tigers Anatolian Tigers () is a term internationally used in the context of the Turkish
Anatolian languages as languages such as Mysian, Cilician, and Pamphylian, which are too poorly attested to construe a relationship with Anatolian. The Anatolian branch is generally considered the earliest to split from the Proto-Indo-European language, from a stage referred to either as Indo-Hittite or "Middle PIE"; typically a date in the mid-4th millennium BC is assumed. Under the Kurgan hypothesis, there are two possibilities for how the early Anatolian speakers could have reached Anatolia: from the north via the Caucasus, and from the west, via the Balkans, the latter of which is considered somewhat more likely by Mallory (1989), Steiner (1990) and