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 which distinguishes masculine and feminine; instead, it exhibits a noun-class system based upon an older animate/inanimate distinction. It should be noted, however, that the masculine/feminine distinction is still a matter of dispute since there are some, such Robert S. P. Beekes, who doubt that the feminine gender originated in PIE. Anatolian languages The Anatolian languages are an extinct family of Indo-European languages that were spoken in Asia Minor (ancient Anatolia), the best attested of them being the Hittite language. The list below gives the Anatolian languages in a relatively flat arrangement, following a summary of the Anatolian family tree by